| Honda Introducing Dealer-Installed Eyes Free Siri Integration on 2013 Accord, Acura ILX and RDX |
Jan 30th, 2013 |
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Honda has announced that later this year, any customer with a 2013 Accord or 2013 Acura ILX or RDX can have Apple’s Eyes Free Siri integration fitted to their cars. To recap, Eyes Free tech enables Siri use through a car’s Bluetooth connection, utilizing a car-mounted button to activate the iPhone’s digital personal assistant instead of the [...]
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| Coming Soon: More Enhancements to Your MotorTrend.com User Profile |
Jan 30th, 2013 |
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We hope you like the recent changes and updates we’ve made so far to our user commenting and profile management systems. And we’re not done yet by a long shot. By the end of this month we’ll be rolling out some new updates to our user profile management system. We’ve broken out your profile into [...]
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| Super Bowl Ad Features 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe, Dream Team Not to Mess With |
Jan 30th, 2013 |
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Game day is quickly approaching, and automakers have started releasing their Super Bowl ads, with the most recent one featuring the seven-passenger 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe. In the ad, a turf war over a park ensues after a boy playing football gets bullied by neighborhood troublemakers who tell their victim to come back once he [...]
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| GM to Invest $200 Million to Expand Global Powertrain Engineering Headquarters, Consolidate Facilities |
Jan 30th, 2013 |
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General Motors will invest $200 million to build a new test wing at its Global Powertrain Engineering Headquarters in Pontiac, Michigan. The 138,000-sq-ft expansion will allow the automaker to decrease developmental time and reduce costs associated with bringing new propulsion technologies to market by consolidating work from four other locations to the Pontiac campus. Engineering [...]
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| Shakespearean Bard Defends Ford Fiesta in Response to Jeremy Irons’ Comments |
Jan 30th, 2013 |
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British actor Jeremy Irons is getting some heat from both fans of a TV drama and the folks over at Ford following a comment he made earlier this month. According to Entertainment Weekly, Irons slammed TV drama Downton Abbey as “the Ford Fiesta of television” during a panel discussion about the PBS series Shakespeare Uncovered. [...]
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| 2014 Kia Sorento Helps Explain Where Babies Come From in Super Bowl Ad |
Jan 30th, 2013 |
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It’s a burning question all kids have, and one that parents never want to answer: “Where do babies come from?” In a new Kia Super Bowl ad shown below, one dad is not quite ready to give his son the “birds and bees” speech, and instead makes up a fantastical story about a planet populated [...]
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| 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA’s Base Price of $30,825 Revealed in Super Bowl Ad |
Jan 30th, 2013 |
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The 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA made its official debut a few weeks ago and now the automaker has revealed the four-door’s base price of $30,825, including the $925 destination charge. Benz revealed the pricing in a just-released TV spot, which will air during the televised coverage of this weekend’s Super Bowl game. The CLA is now [...]
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| Chrysler Reveals Revised 5-Year Product Plan, 2012 Full-Year Profit of $1.7 Billion |
Jan 30th, 2013 |
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Chrysler has revealed its revised November 2009 North American five-year product plan and extended it to include the 2016 calendar year. While the automaker has dropped plans to add two Fiat-produced models each to the Chrysler and Dodge brands this year, Fiat will add eight new models and Alfa Romeo will finally return to the [...]
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| 2013 Chevrolet Camaro SS 1LE and 2013 Ford Mustang GT Track Pack Face Off on Head 2 Head |
Jan 30th, 2013 |
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On this week’s episode of Head 2 Head, the 2013 Ford Mustang GT Track Pack and 2013 Chevrolet Camaro SS 1LE face off on the track to see which coupe is king of the pony cars. Back in the good old days, a Mustang-versus-Camaro duel was simple: head to the drag strip. That’s how this [...]
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| Rare January Tornadoes Kill 2 in US South |
Jan 30th, 2013 |
A massive storm system ripped through the southern United States Wednesday, with rare January tornadoes killing two people. A huge tornado tore through the town of Adairsville, Georgia, north of ...
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