Our friends at Drive recently had the chance to get behind the new Toyota GT 86 sports coupe. Lead man Chris Harris gives us his take on the new rear-wheel-drive coupe from the Japanese automaker in the 30 minutes he had with the car on the track. Check out the video after the jump. Click here [...]
FoMoCo announced today that two key executives at the company will be hanging up their hats. Lewis Booth, executive vice president and chief financial officer, and Derrick Kuzak, group vice president, Global Product Development, have elected to retire effective April 1. Each individual has served the Dearborn automaker for more than 30 years. “Lewis Booth and [...]
While putting together the commercial for the new 2013 Scion FR-S in Northern California, Scion Racing’s Ken Gushi, official stunt driver for the shoot, had a very close encounter with a deer on some mountain roads. Fortunately, Ken and the deer were unharmed during the making of the commercial. Click here for our original post on [...]
What happens when you cut into a McDonald’s drive-through line and refuse to move your car and go to the back of the line? You get the cops called on you and get a tased. According to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, deputies tased a woman who wouldn’t surrender after cutting into a McDonald’s drive-through line. [...]
Both north and south bound sides of I-75 were shut down on Sunday as a result of a massive pileup that started on the south bound side around 3:45am. Authorities say that at least 10 people were killed in the north Florida crash. A fire broke out and smoke clouded up the highway as a [...]
A recent study in the United Kingdom has revealed that women may be better at parking cars then men are. The U.K.’s National Car Parks captured and studied surveillance taken of car parks for one month at different locations, and made the determination based on several factors. Accuracy, time, and technique were all combined to [...]
Riding a motorcycle in the Untied States comes with a lot of responsibility, rules and regulations – and rightfully so since it is one of the most dangerous forms of transportation if you’re involved in any sort of accident. Well, on the other side of the world (India to be specific), things are a little [...]
It seems like in this day and age of newer is better, old Mercedes-Benzes tend to go overlooked and are often underappreciated. It’s rather unfortunate since their cars have been reputed for so many superlatives that even today, only those who do appreciate them—like me, hardcore—are the ones who never forget. But even for those [...]
Thanks to the economy and other factors, Americans are holding onto their cars for and average of 10.8 years, up from 8.4 years in 1996. What does this mean in terms of individual cars? 10 million fewer cars sold between 2008 and 2011. Toyota among other automakers sees this as stored energy in the car [...]
Over in motherland Russia, marketers and advertisers for Marlboro—yes, the American tobacco company—recently pulled an interesting stunt using an Audi and projection mapping. Ok, before I continue, what the heck is that? Projection mapping is where a series of artists and technicians turn virtually any surface into a projection screen, whether it be two-dimensional or [...]
