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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China-based Canadian stole Tesla secrets, say U.S. prosecutors
Sunday, 24 March 2024
NEW YORK — A Canadian resident of China has been arrested in the United States for allegedly stealing electric car manufacturer Tesla’s trade secrets and conspiring to sell them to undercover law enforcement officers. Klaus Pflugbeil, the operator of a China-based business that sells technology used in electric vehicles, was arrested on Tuesday in New
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BMW i5 Luggage Test: How much fits in the trunk?
Monday, 11 March 2024
BMW’s official specs indicate that the BMW i5 has a 17.3 cubic-foot trunk. “Wow!” you might say, if you’ve been keeping track of sedan trunk volumes. Oh, you haven’t? Weird. Well, that would be more than the 16.7 cubes you’ll find in a Honda Accord, which can not only swallow all six standard Luggage Test
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Junkyard Gem: 1993 Volvo 240
Sunday, 10 March 2024
What is the most iconic and recognizable Volvo of all time? That would be the 200 Series, of course, which went into production in 1974 and continued to roll off assembly lines all the way through 1993. It was so successful that it outlived its supposed replacement, and that car’s replacement only outlasted the 200 by
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Scrapyard Gem: 2011 Alfa Romeo Giulietta
Saturday, 09 March 2024
Alfa Romeo first applied the Giulietta name to its cars in 1954, producing that legendary generation through 1965. The name was revived on a wild-looking sedan for the 1977-1985 period, just before Fiat bought the company, and then returned on a compact hatchback for the 2011 model year. Today’s Junkyard Scrapyard Find is one of
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2024 Audi Q4 E-Tron gets chassis updates, more power, faster charging
Friday, 08 March 2024
Carmakers normally roll out big changes at the beginning of a new model year, but Audi is bucking that trend to make improvements to the Q4 E-Tron. Halfway through the 2024 model year, the electric crossover gets updates such as more horsepower and more driving range. The motors still draw electricity from an 82-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion
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5 thoughts on the 2024 Nissan Pathfinder Platinum
Thursday, 07 March 2024
The 2024 Nissan Pathfinder Platinum has an off-road swagger and a cavernous interior — good reasons to consider putting one in your driveway if you need to haul people, stuff and things with four legs and a tail. The ’21 refresh brought the Pathfinder into the modern era. It’s solid, but not the best in
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