July 22, 2016
Samsung invests $449 million in China’s BYD
BYD Co., the electric-car maker backed by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said a unit of Samsung Electronics Co. bought a $449 million (3 billion yuan) stake in the Chinese auto company. Shanghai Samsung Semiconductor bought 52.3 million…
July 18, 2016
Tesla working with suppliers to improve Autopilot
Tesla Motors Inc. is working with suppliers Bosch GmbH and Mobileye NV to refine its Autopilot technology, which has come under fire in recent weeks following a fatal accident that occurred while it was in use. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a Sunday…
July 12, 2016
Dead driver’s car displayed outside Parliament
The parents of a man killed when his car was hit at high speed have put the wreckage on display at Westminster as part of a campaign for tougher sentences by road safety charity Brake. Joseph Brown-Lartey died as his vehicle was split in half by a…
July 12, 2016
F-150 sales undented by Chevy attack ad
The Chevrolet Silverado grabbed its biggest piece of the U.S. full-size pickup market since January in the first month of its blistering ad campaign attacking the Ford F-150's aluminum body as too flimsy. But the F-150 emerged from the fray looking…
July 12, 2016
Mercedes beats BMW at half-year mark
Mercedes-Benz solidified its sales lead over the BMW brand in the first half of the year, moving closer to a goal of unseating its rival for the first time since 2005. BMW’s global six-month brand deliveries rose 5.8 percent from a year earlier to…
May 12, 2016
Women Take The Wheel In The Supercar Industry – No Longer Just A Man’s World Say Barnebys
There is a quiet revolution underway in that bastion of male dominance – the car industry – say Barnebys, the auction house search engine that monitors classic car sales around the world. Barnebys, a Swedish owned company which offers no fewer than…
March 14, 2016
2017 Bugatti Chiron: The $2.6-Million, 1500-hp, 261-mph Image Booster
With the Bugatti Veyron’s top-speed records, a price tag over $1 million, and distinctive melted-scoop-of-ice-cream styling, it was an instant rolling superlative when it debuted in 2005. Its successor, the new Chiron, is even more of a record- and…
January 6, 2016
Man Crashes a Dodge Challenger Through a Building Attempting to Time Travel
The thought of a time-traveling car might be the stuff of legend, or at least 1985’s Back to the Future. But for two Florida business owners, it’s no tall tale. On December 20th, a driver in Pensacola careened a Dodge Challenger muscle car into two…
December 23, 2015
Honda scolded Takata as deadly airbag crisis unfolded in U.S.
Four months before U.S. regulators started their investigation, Honda Motor Co. executives sat down with Shigehisa Takada, the head of Takata Corp., to scold him for the way the manufacturer reacted to the crisis over its potentially deadly airbags,…
December 8, 2015
Volvo’s Concept 26 could transform commuting time
Concept 26 is not a pretentious farm-to-table restaurant that changes its menu every two weeks, though its ideals are as lofty. The name of Volvo’s new take on autonomous driving refers to the soul-sucking 26 minutes that the average US commuter…