States Consider Taxing Self-Driving Cars to Make Up for Lost Gas Revenue
GM’s self-driving Chevy Bolt Photo: Digital Trends Increasingly efficient cars are having one unfortunate consequence for state and federal governments—they actually reduce their tax revenue. This is for the simple…
San Jose Police Propose Putting License Plate Readers on Garbage Trucks
San Jose Police have proposed putting license plate readers on garbage trucks to help crack down on crime Photo: Jeffrey Beall Police surveillance is hard work, especially when you live…
New Isuzu KB Added to Off-Road Academy in South Africa
Isuzu KB300 LX Double Cab Photo: © General Motors General Motors has announced that it is adding the new Isuzu KB to the Off-Road Driving Courses and Corporate Team Building…
Executive Reorganization Begins as GM Prepares to Sell South African Assets to Isuzu
Isuzu Motors South Africa and General Motors on Tuesday announced that there are several changes taking place at the executive level as preparations are underway for Isuzu to purchase back…
Valley Honda, Author at The News Wheel
Honda has announced that it will be recalling 9,816 2014 Honda Civic… One of the largest concerns that consumers have when it comes to… This past week, MotorWeek handed out…
NHTSA Set to Issue Autonomous Car Guidelines in July
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking to set autonomous car guidelines by July Photo courtesy of NHTSA The world of autonomous vehicles is quickly developing with carmakers around…
GM Canada Posts Strong March, Q1 2017 Sales Gains
General Motors Canada wrapped up the first quarter of 2017 in as strong a fashion as an automaker could hope to: with its best single sales month in nine years.…
Wilkes Nissan, Author at The News Wheel
From 1988 to 1991, Nissan dominated U.S. sports car racing, as the… Google Glass has been in the news a lot recently regarding the… In a city known for its…
Summer Weather That Wreaks Havoc on Driving
2017 Chevrolet Silverado Crew Cab Diesel After months and months of wishing for warmer weather and vacation time, it’s no doubt that drivers might be in a rush to hit…
Surveillance Mode Available for License from Ford
Surveillance Mode, which debuted on the Ford Police Interceptor, is now available to license A little more than a year ago, we told you about Ford’s innovative Surveillance Mode for…
Opel Teams with BlaBlaCar to Offer Special Deals to Carpoolers
Opel on Thursday announced the kick-off of a new pilot project with BlaBlaCar, the world’s preeminent long-distance carpooling company, which will see Opel cars made available to its most active…
[VIDEO] Driver Stalls Car, Escapes Death, Considers Automatic Transmission
A driver in the Orlando, Florida suburb of Maitland narrowly escaped death last week when a train struck her car on a railroad crossing. The driver, a 28-year-old female, was…
PackeyWebb, Author at The News Wheel
This week, Ford announced the all-new F-650 and F-750 medium-duty commercial trucks… Ford Motor Company has always been known as the industry’s leading truck… As of now, only about one…
Mustang6G Offers Speculative Render of Slimmed-Down 2015 Mustang
How do you think the 2015 Mustang will end up looking in comparison to this 2014 Mustang? Late this summer, Edmunds.com reported that Ford intends to cut at least 400…
Genetic Engineering May Make Algae a Real Biofuel Contender for the Future
So far the biofuel game has belonged to two crops—corn and soybeans. But, a third organism is ready to play. Kind of. According to Bloomberg writer Jennifer A Dlouhy, after…
