Many of you have kids riding school buses and a crash of one of the behemoths Monday in Los Angeles involved a fatality and raised many of the important issues facing communities with the big yellow buses and how to keep them — and the kids inside — as safe as possible.
Some of the people who engineer our massively complicated cars and trucks seem to have blown it … again. What might happen this time out? Your brakes could fail.
The biggest rivalry in the world is not between the Yankees and the Red Sox nor the Dodgers and the Giants, but between Ford and General Motors, with Dodge thrown in to add a little spice to the mix.
It’s cool when a car-maker consistently rides the big ones, surfing the next wave upon wave of technology while still trying to keep some of their corporate heritage in the mix.
After over 1 million miles of prototype testing, the first new road car from McLaren since 1993 is ready for you. And the first place you can buy one, at about $250,000 a pop, is in mid-2011 at the Auto Gallery store on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.
“It’s not easy bein’ green.” Thus sangeth (singeth?) Kermit the Frog several decades back, and as it turns out, he was not kidding. Especially when it comes to cars.
The truck which challenged millions of drivers to sit way up high, go off-road and inspired an entire generation of too-big vehicles in too many hands, is back in an all-new iteration.
There is major electric vehicle news this week as General Motors’ Volt took on Nissan’s Leaf EV in the pricing department. Neither GM nor Nissan expects to make any profit on either EV for a long, long time, perhaps several years.
News came two weeks ago that the “black boxes” in Toyota and Lexus cars and trucks, which constantly monitor and record every usage aspect of throttle and brake position, vehicle speed, engine temp and much, much more, are showing overwhelmingly that the vehicles involved in “unintended acceleration
We have driven the future, and you can too, sometime after the beginning of the new year. We took some short road test drives recently and one of the cars we flogged was when we took a closer look at Nissan’s 2011 Leaf EV.
If Rodney Dangerfield had been a car, he might have been a Mitsubishi. But the irony is, while the company’s vehicles may not get as much respect as those from other Asian-based manufacturers, their products are solid and dependable and often more fun than the competition.
During the past year, General Motors went bankrupt, Chrysler found itself owned by Italy’s Fiat and yet Ford seems to be hitting home runs, knocking them out of the park with regularity.
