| Electric Dreams: EV Start-up Plans to Spend $1 Billion on U.S. Factory |
Nov 5th, 2015 |
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In auto-industry terms, 2017 is not very far away. If GM, Toyota, or VW Group announced today that it would debut a brand-new car from scratch in less than two years—and that it hadn’t even established the production facility to build it—that would sound a little far-fetched. Now imagine the company making that announcement is a start-up […]
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| TRD Spices Up the Toyota Highlander, Making the Unpossible Possible |
Nov 5th, 2015 |
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Among the batch of TRD-fettled machines Toyota debuted at SEMA this week—Camry, Corolla, Avalon, Land Cruiser—also sits this Highlander. The idea behind them all is to zazz up the most narcolepsy-inducing members of Toyota’s lineup with special paint, body kits, and wheels, and to gauge reaction for possible production. So as you’d expect, this Highlander looks very […]
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| TRD Spices Up the Toyota Highlander, Making the Unpossible Possible |
Nov 5th, 2015 |
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| King of the Kustomizers George Barris Passes Away at 89 |
Nov 5th, 2015 |
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King of the Kustomizers George Barris passed away this morning at the age of 89. Surely to be remembered as the man who designed the Batmobile for the 1960s Batman TV series, his influence extended well beyond Hollywood. A California native, Barris began customizing cars at 14 alongside his brother Sam in Sacramento. The pair moved to […]
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| 2016 Audi A6 2.0T Quattro Test: Laggy Yet Lovely |
Nov 5th, 2015 |
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The Audi A6 is currently our favorite mid-size luxury sedan. It’s really good. That’s particularly true of the brilliantly balanced 3.0T and the sportified S6 variant. But what about the price-leading A6 2.0T model? It’s the A6 that gives Audi dealers a banner-ad model to lure customers into dealerships with an attractive, sub-$50K price or […]
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| 2016 Audi A6 2.0T Quattro – Instrumented Test |
Nov 5th, 2015 |
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| Adventure Time: The Hyundai Tucson “Adventuremobile” Is a Rad Way to Get Away from It All |
Nov 5th, 2015 |
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Teaming with Southern California customizer John Pangilinan, Hyundai dropped this green hunk of raditude at the 2015 SEMA show. Based on the compact Hyundai Tucson, the “Adventuremobile,” as it’s been dubbed, uses its upgrades to fantastic effect. Aesthetically, this little crossover has it right. Painted in army green—a shade too often ignored in OEM color palettes, we gotta […]
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| Adventure Time: The Hyundai Tucson “Adventuremobile” Is a Rad Way to Get Away from It All |
Nov 5th, 2015 |
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| Industry Post 18.25 Million SAAR in October, Autodata Reports |
Nov 5th, 2015 |
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The industry sold 1.46 million units in October, according to Autodata Corp. October's SAAR was 18.24 million units, the highest rate of the year.
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| FTC Announces Multiagency Crackdown on Abusive Debt Collectors |
Nov 5th, 2015 |
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Operation Collection Protection has resulted in 115 total actions against debt collectors this year, 30 of which were announced during the FTC’s press conference to announce the multiagency initiative.
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