LAS VEGAS — The most striking innovation on display this week at the Consumer Electronics Show, the world’s largest consumer tech tradeshow, came not from Silicon Valley, but from Detroit. The vehicles on display underscored a sea change taking place in the automotive industry, one driven by carmakers’ relentless attempts to distinguish their wares by [...]
“It’s hard being a single dad — especially when your son is a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle,” says the back cover to “How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive,” a new novel by Christopher Boucher (Melville House). However curious the book’s premise, it works a pretty well-plowed surrealist furrow, hailing back to Kafka and Gogol by way of [...]
Earlier this year, executive editor Chris Paukert and I were chatting one morning about the 2011 Audi A6 he was driving – a car that would soon be replaced with the sharp new 2012 model you see here. Of course, we discussed how the car’s styling was growing a bit long in the tooth, but [...]
You may remember the name Franz-Josef Paefgen. Until recently, the German engineer and executive was head of both Bentley and Bugatti. Before that he was chief executive of Audi, after working for several years at Ford. He technically “retired” earlier this year, but like the cars he helped create, an executive like Paefgen could never [...]
LG Group has taken up legal arms against both BMW and Audi over a patent dispute. The technology company is reportedly aiming to have the sale of vehicles from both German automakers banned in South Korea over an LED patent dispute. According to Korea Times, LG Group is claiming that Osram, the manufacturer of LEDs [...]
Porsche is apparently still working on a new small sports car designed to give the Lotus Elise something to chew on, at least if the reports coming from CAR Magazine are to be believed. Code-named Project Mimo, the vehicle is slated to be positioned below the Boxster and be built on the bones of the [...]
Compiling a list of automotive legends is a task that could force all enthusiasts into a debate of epic proportions. Opinions will differ, feelings will be hurt and some deserving vehicles might wind up off the ultimate list. There is one vehicle, however, that should create little debate as to its place in the annals [...]
A robot car that drives and navigates itself has been developed by scientists at Oxford University and is on course to be a major antidote to traffic congestion, they believe. It means that the sort of futuristic technology seen a generation ago on the 1980s TV series Knight Rider – featuring actor David Hasselhoff playing [...]
Spending time with any iteration of the Audi R8 is a glorious occasion. Your life becomes brighter, and everyone you pass on the street feels a bit better about their day for just having seen one. Audi wants you to experience this for yourself, and you’re going to need to flex your Twitter muscles to [...]
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