Best sports cars under $50,000 for 2024
Wednesday, 03 April 2024
New sports cars generally are not cheap, but that doesn’t mean you can’t scoop up a really good one for a solid price. The best sports cars under $50,000 are what we’re bringing to you here, and the list is full of spectacular choices, though you won’t see any luxury sports cars here – those
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Mercedes said to revamp plans for the EQS and S-Class
Tuesday, 02 April 2024
We think there’s little argument that the Mercedes-Benz EQS is, in many or most ways, a sensational vehicle. Here’s the hurdle it hasn’t been able to clear: It’s undoubtedly the electric version of the venerated S-Class, but is the EQS an S-Class in the ways that matter to buyers — as clearly as the BMW
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Scrapyard Gem: 2007 Honda FR-V
Monday, 01 April 2024
The 2000s were something of a golden decade for “tall hatchback” MPVs in Europe, and the good news for Japanese manufacturers was that they had plenty of home-market-optimized vehicles designed for space efficiency that could be brought over to compete with the likes of the Renault Modus, Citroën Xsara Picasso and Hyundai Matrix. From my
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Many of us in a survey say trucks, SUVs are too big; many more of us buy them
Sunday, 31 March 2024
The sales charts prove Americans’ wide and enduring love for pickups and SUVs. Last year’s top 10 sellers were three pickups, three compact SUVs, another pickup, the lone sedan, a compact SUV, and a midsize SUV. Surveys and studies, however, prove Americans’ wide and enduring ambivalence for pickups and SUVs, specifically the large ones that
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GM will be executing on its EV ambitions in 2024, says CEO Mary Barra
Saturday, 30 March 2024
By Brian Sozzi, Yahoo Finance executive editor Decades of climbing the ladder while challenging conventional thinking have brought Mary Barra to the present — the year of delivering on ambitious EV goals at storied automaker General Motors (GM). “I think in 2024, this is a year of of execution,” GM’s longtime chair and CEO said
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrates 100-kW wireless charging from a parking space
Friday, 29 March 2024
The white coats at Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) in Tennessee have hit a research milestone for the world of electric vehicles that seems like a plausible reality in the coming decade. Earlier this month, after parking a Hyundai Kona EV over a new wireless charger design, the scientists and engineers registered a max wireless
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Sometimes, it takes a front loader to stop a front loader
Thursday, 28 March 2024
How does one stop a stolen oversized front loader that’s plowing down a Georgia highway to escape a police pursuit? With another front loader. This rather unusual incident, captured on body cam video earlier this week, came about when a 38-year-old former worker at a waste management site in Gwinnett County climbed into the vehicle
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Volvo builds its final diesel-powered car, a blue XC90
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
It’s over between Volvo and diesel engines. Last September, at Climate Week NYC, the Swedish carmaker said it was breaking up with Rudolph Diesel’s popular, globetrotting invention. Earlier this month, the Volvo plant in Torslanda, Sweden, sent the penultimate diesel-powered XC90 into the world. Then came the ender, the last of its kind: A blue
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Baltimore’s weary commuters face ‘total traffic meltdown’ after bridge collapse
Tuesday, 26 March 2024
Traffic snarled across Baltimore on Tuesday after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge forced vehicles to divert to other congested harbor crossings, raising the specter of nightmarish commutes for residents for months or even years to come. Drivers traveling north or south between major eastern U.S. cities such as New York and Washington
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Genesis Neolun previews future of Genesis and a flagship SUV
Monday, 25 March 2024
NEW YORK – One of the last holes in the Genesis lineup has been a large SUV, likely with three rows of seating, but it seems it won’t be a hole for long. Among a number of Genesis debuts in New York is the Neolun concept. It’s a large, flagship luxury SUV, and it previews
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