| Now That’s Cheap Transportation: $75 Pickup Got Minnesota Man Back and Forth to Work—for 38 Years |
Jan 5th, 2015 |
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Bob Sportel may be the master of return on investment. When he was in his early 20s, he took a job with the local farmer’s co-op in Prinsburg, Minnesota and promptly bought a hammered 1957 Chevrolet truck from a customer. Sportel needed cheap transportation to get him to and from work, and the truck fit […]
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| Naked 2015 Porsche Cayman GT4 Streaks for the Camera |
Jan 5th, 2015 |
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| Toyota: “Hey, Everyone—Have 5680 Fuel-Cell Patents! For Free!” |
Jan 5th, 2015 |
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Toyota announced today at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show that it will be making 5680 global patents it holds related to fuel-cell technology available—for free—to other automakers and suppliers interested in developing hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs) and technologies. The announcement came as part of a press conference touting the Mirai fuel-cell car pictured above, which will […]
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| Volkswagen Goes All Star Wars on a Golf R Interior for Rad, Gesture-Control CES Concept |
Jan 5th, 2015 |
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Think of the Future—yes, that future, with a capital F—and it’s easy to get carried away in notions of hover cars, robot helpers, and artificial intelligence. None of those things are peeking over the horizon, but one of our favorite pieces of future-tech is: Touchless controls. Yep, Minority Report–style swiping and swatting to manipulate computers and objects is […]
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| Subaru Gets Sirius About 4G LTE Connectivity |
Jan 5th, 2015 |
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It’s CES week, and the automotive tech news is rolling in. Not to be left out, our friends at Subaru have announced that it is partnering with Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services and AT&T to add 4G LTE connectivity to the Starlink in-vehicle connectivity system that Subaru introduced at last year’s CES. The system will […]
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| Look World, No Hands! Self-Driving Audi Makes 550-mile Pilgrimage from Palo Alto to Las Vegas |
Jan 5th, 2015 |
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For the past few years, Audi’s presence at the Consumer Electronics Show has seemed like the movie Groundhog Day—a story stuck on repeat. Oh sure, there were some cool distractions like the 2016 TT’s fully digital gauge cluster, laser headlights, and an in-car tablet computer, but the recurring storyline is dominated by autonomous driving technologies. […]
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| 2015 Volvo S60 Polestar Test: 4.5 Seconds to 60, 159 mph—What Kind of Volvo Is This? |
Jan 5th, 2015 |
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The 2015 Volvo S60 Polestar has a 345-hp turbocharged inline-six, a Haldex all-wheel-drive system with a rear torque bias, colossal Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires measuring 245/35-20, and it costs $60,225. These are the facts, but we could see how, without the benefit of first-hand experience, one might come to the conclusion that the car […]
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| 2015 Volvo S60 Polestar – Instrumented Test |
Jan 5th, 2015 |
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| Most Expensive Ford GT You May Never Want to Drive. Now for Sale on eBay |
Jan 5th, 2015 |
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In the realm of valuable vintage cars, the ones that seem to command the most money are either the ones that have zero or close to zero miles, or the ones that have been driven to hell and back, preferably in some famous races, and then left untouched in a barn for 40 years. What […]
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| OnStar Wants You to Share Your Driving Habits With Insurers |
Jan 5th, 2015 |
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At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, GM showed off some cool new tech, like the 2016 Chevy Volt and a magical system that predicts mechanical failures before they can leave you stranded. But the company also talked about some new OnStar technology that gives us pause—technology that monitors your driving habits and uses […]
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