Ford Puma Titanium X Photo: Ford Motor Company The new Ford Puma is a unique-looking addition to the Blue Oval’s crossover and SUV lineup, but it has at least one thing in common with stalwarts like the Explorer Plug-In Hybrid and Kuga: safety. The new Puma is the latest Ford vehicle to earn the 5-star…
One of the prettiest tracks on the calendar. The question on everyone’s minds heading in the 2015 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix went more or less along these lines: would Nico Rosberg be able to steal a sixth consecutive pole from Hamilton and would he score three wins in a row for the first time in…
The 2014 Hyundai Veloster made an appearance at the NAIAS Auto Show earlier this month, and it hit all the right notes. 2014 Hyundai Veloster Exterior The 2014 Hyundai Veloster is among the most unique and aggressively-designed vehicles on the market. The revolutionary three-door hatchback puts one door on the driver side and two on…
The 2014 GMC Sierra 1500 is completely redesigned for the new year with a reduced weight and a completely new lineup of more fuel-efficient engines including a V6. 2014 GMC Sierra 1500 Exterior For the 2014 model year, the Sierra 1500 is built to be a refined workhorse. Striking new styling features combine with smart…
Ford Drugged Driving Suit Ford is taking its Driving Skills for Life tour out for its 13th year, and it is adding a new wrinkle to its offerings: a Drugged Driving Suit that seeks to give teen drivers a first-hand lesson in why they should not drive a vehicle under the influence of drugs. Ford…
The current rising star in the BMW lineup is undoubtedly the 2017 BMW X1. BMW’s most affordable SAV is experiencing massive sales growth so far this year, as the market for utility vehicles only expands at a more aggressive rate. For many drivers, the X1 serves as the perfect gateway into the BMW brand. It possesses…
But how do Florida police feel about bubble gun carjacking? Photo: Mart Usually, when you think of a carjacking, the perpetrator is carrying a gun. It’s for this reason that many carjackers are charged with armed robbery if and when they are caught. In order to avoid this felony charge, a carjacker in Florida recently…
Although official January sales figures don’t come out until tomorrow, GM is already bragging about the 2015 Chevy Colorado’s success in Los Angeles, where more units have been sold than in any other city to date. Partially thanks to that big boost from the City of Angels, the Colorado has now surpassed the Nissan Frontier…
Last week, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) named the 2014 Nissan Rogue a Top Safety Pick Plus. To earn this honor, the all-new Rogue achieved the top rating of “Good” in all five of the Top Safety Pick categories and went on to snag the Top Safety Pick Plus designation due to its…
Photo: Digital Trends Last year, Google achieved a patent on its “sticky” car shell design which would help protect pedestrians during collisions; they would adhere to the car instead of bouncing off and landing on the hard asphalt to sustain even more injuries. (Cool—but seriously, “human trap” cars? Does Google view pedestrians as some sort…
Jeff Gordon’s famous rainbow paint scheme that was on his car for three of his four championships Photo: Darryl Moran Lost in the hoopla of Denny Hamlin’s victory at Chicagoland Speedway, and also overshadowed by the post-race altercation between Kevin Harvick and Jimmie Johnson, a certain career milestone happened for one of NASCAR’s most legendary drivers…
The acclaimed 2016 Honda Civic Coupe recently earned another feather in its cap: the highest-available rating of Top Safety Pick+ from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) for models equipped with Honda Sensing. The 2016 Civic Coupe is the latest member of the Honda lineup to earn a Top Safety Pick+ rating when equipped…
The obliviousness is strong with this one. On June 11th, Tom Funicello reported his car stolen, while probably thinking it was gone forever. That is, until he received a phone call from Marquis Whipple, who offered to sell the stolen car back to him for $200. Behold, the greatest Florida Man alive Funicello was, predictably,…
Volvo has announced that the upcoming XC90, which it has been revealing somewhat unusually from the inside-out, will be the first vehicle built upon the company’s in-house Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) modular chassis technology. Volvo specified that SPA will benefit both its engineers/designers and the consumers by providing a streamlined product that can be built…
2016 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Photo: © General Motors Coming equipped with a 455 hp V8 engine, the 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is one of the most affordable performance cars on the market with a starting MSRP of just $56,395. This RWD vehicle also comes with a Bose premium nine-speaker sound system and rearview camera for…
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