Ever go to a Hertz or Avis counter hoping to rent a BMW, and all they have are PT Cruisers and Tauruses? Starting next month, car renters in New York City will have a choice of 100 new BMW 3 Series to rent by the hour, day or week as part of a new service being started by the German automaker.
Mercedes-Benz can be credited with more technological firsts in the automotive industry than perhaps any other company, but it cannot lay claim to being the first automaker to offer a seatbelt airbag. Nor can it claim to be the second. Those two spots go to the Ford Explorer and Lexus LFA,
Some drunk drivers are pretty nervy, but Charles Kitchens takes the cake, or should that be chicken. The 39-year old drove his car into a chicken take-out shop on Main Street in Spartanburg, SC earlier this month and began cursing at the workers despite it being him that caused damage to the place.
The painfully slow striptease of the next Mazda6 continues unabated. Fortunately for us, the Japanese automaker has seen fit to reveal the car's full profile, albeit in a video that never shows the car in its entirety.
Sometimes finding a working, compatible EV charging station can be a challenge. Web and mobile maps full of outdated data have caused issues for EV owners looking to find a place to juice up on the go. We experienced firsthand the difficulties of old data in the charging infrastructure. (The charger we were told to go to didn't have a proper connector.)
Ford's marketing strategy for its plug-in vehicles is coming into Focus (pun intended): compare, compare, compare.
What kind of person are you? In an election year, there is a lot of talk about the 99% and the 1%. But a NASA engineer wants to know if you are part of the 6% or the 94%. NASA scientist Mark Rober, who is known around Youtube for creating interesting science experiments on his own time, recently took a rubber snake, tarantula and turtle out to a busy road to see how many drivers would go out of their way to run them over. How many of us are given to sadistic behavior?
The Audi A8 will be ditching its tried-and-true naturally aspirated 4.2-liter V8 engine for the 2013 model year. Instead, the automaker is fitting its flagship sedan with the twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 that's also being used in the S6 and S7, good for 420 horsepower and 406 pound-feet of torque – increases of 48 hp and 78 lb-ft versus the 4.2-liter model.
