| Welcome Back: Honda Re-Entering Formula 1 in 2015 as Engine, KERS Supplier to McLaren |
May 17th, 2013 |
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From 1964 to 2008, Honda participated in Formula 1 competition through multiple avenues including racing, building cars, and supplying engines. Today, Honda announced that it will be rejoining Formula 1 in the form of an engine builder for McLaren. When Honda was last involved in F1 competition, it created a trickle-down effect for the automaker’s [...]
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| Ram’s 2500 / 3500 HD pickup Driven: Going for the Gold Medal of Tow Ratings |
May 17th, 2013 |
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While half-ton pickups often lead lives of suburban leisure, three-quarter and one-ton class trucks are seldom extended the luxury. Often put to work within minutes of taking delivery, big dogs like Ram’s 2500 and 3500 HD models are built to flex their muscles on a daily basis, and live in a world where a soiled [...]
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| Holden Commodore final VE rolls off production line |
May 17th, 2013 |
Holden Commodore SS Z Series automatic sedan pictured is the last of more than 520,000 VEs to leave Holden Vehicle Operations in Elizabeth since the start of production in 2006. More than 350,000 VE Commodores and derivatives have been sold in Australia in that time, while more than 170,000 have been exported to five continents, including utes to South Africa, sedans to the Middle East and ...
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| Kentucky Blood Center donors will get chance to win a Toyota Prius |
May 17th, 2013 |
Those who donate at the Beaumont Branch of the Kentucky Blood Center on Friday will receive a T-shirt and a $20 coupon for a future PODS ...
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| Honda confirms Formula One return |
May 17th, 2013 |
from 2015. The Japanese brand had been strongly rumoured to return to motorsport’s premier racing category after leaving at the end of the 2008 ...
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| Porsche 918 Spyder 653kW hybrid hypercar revealed |
May 17th, 2013 |
have been released, confirming that the plug-in hybrid hypercar will be the quickest, most powerful and most fuel efficient vehicle in the brand’s ...
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| Column Electric cars charging forward |
May 17th, 2013 |
Photo credit: Consumer Reports gave the Tesla Model S a stellar rating. (Getty) It's been a wild couple of weeks for Tesla Motors, the rapidly-growing manufacturer of electric cars. It became a Wall Street darling after its announced its first-ever quarterly profit, driven by significantly better-than-expected sales. But even more importantly, the highly-influential Consumer Reports named ...
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| Flying cars grounded following crash into Vernon schoolyard |
May 17th, 2013 |
VERNON, B.C. -- The Transportation Safety Board says the U.S. manufacturer of flying cars has grounded all five of its prototypes until it can determine a cause for a recent crash in B.C.One of the Maverick flying cars, sold by Florida-based Beyond Roads, crashed near a Vernon elementary school last Friday, leaving a pilot and a passenger with minor injuries. According to the company's ...
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| Orland Park man suspected of half a dozen auto break-ins |
May 17th, 2013 |
A man arrested in Orland Park Wednesday after he was seen breaking into a vehicle has been linked to more than a half dozen other car burglaries in the area, authorities said. The 21-year-old man, of the 14100 block of Trenton Avenue in Orland Park, was arrested near Michael Drive and Sheri Lane after he was pursued by police on foot. Officers were responding to a 911 call about a man cutting ...
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| BMW CEO to Germans Chill out and start buying electric cars |
May 17th, 2013 |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right) visit a BMW plant in Leipzig on Nov. 5, 2010. The plant will be expanded to produce the newly-developed Megacity electric car. (Steffen Kugler/AFP/Getty ...
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