| Jump Up, Jump Up, and Get Down: VW Debuts Second-Gen Up! Minicar |
Feb 22nd, 2016 |
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| Samsung Dongle Brings Car Monitoring and Wi-Fi to Older Cars |
Feb 22nd, 2016 |
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Blame Progressive Insurance. Its Snapshot was the insurance industry’s first attempt at 24/7 vehicular watchdogging in the connected era. Samsung now has ConnectAuto. It’s similar to the underwriter’s dongle in that it taps the OBD II CANbus, which has been mandated on all U.S. cars since 1996, to monitor car and driver performance. Not all […]
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| Takata May Quadruple Airbag Recall, Financial Outlook In Danger |
Feb 22nd, 2016 |
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It’s fast becoming DEFCON 1 at Takata, which may have to quadruple its recalls of shrapnel-shooting airbag inflators. Anonymous former Takata employees told Reuters that as many as 285 million Takata inflators with ammonium nitrate—the cheaper propellant Takata switched to in 1999 and kept using, despite repeated safety concerns by its own engineers—could be affected. […]
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| Volvo Adds Native Spotify Support to Its Product Line Globally |
Feb 22nd, 2016 |
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Attention Spotifans! Volvo has announced that it will be the first manufacturer to globally integrate the Spotify music-streaming app in its products, starting this spring with the XC90, S90, and V90. The app will be accessible via the cars’ Sensus touchscreen interface, the portrait orientation of which should look and feel familiar to Spotify users. The […]
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| Do Your Wurst: Meet the Armored Mercedes-Maybach S600 Guard |
Feb 22nd, 2016 |
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Mercedes has announced its latest vehicle intended to keep heads of state, royals, and oligarchs free from gunshot wounds and other nasty weapons-related injuries: the Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman Guard. Based on the mega-opulent Maybach S600, the vehicle meets VR10 protection standards according to Directive BRV 2009 Version 2, which is an incredibly long way to say that this incredibly […]
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| Do Your Wurst: Meet the Armored Mercedes-Maybach S600 Guard |
Feb 22nd, 2016 |
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| No Jeep, No Justice: Renegade “Dawn of Justice” Edition |
Feb 22nd, 2016 |
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We know that compact crossovers are getting more and more popular, but would you trade in the Batmobile for one? Evidently in the new superhero movie, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Bruce Wayne (played by Ben Affleck) tools around in a Jeep Renegade. And Batman fans—of legal driving age—can be just like Wayne with […]
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| No Jeep, No Justice: Renegade “Dawn of Justice” Edition |
Feb 22nd, 2016 |
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| Volvo XC90 T8 e-Twinster Prototype: Call It the e-Drifter |
Feb 22nd, 2016 |
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Driving on a frozen ice lake is a strange experience at any time, but never more so than when the towering Volvo XC90 T8 that we’re piloting on the treacherous surface of a frozen lake starts to do a convincing impression of a Focus RS. Look closely and you’ll see that, despite obviously being an […]
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| Volvo XC90 T8 e-Twinster Prototype: Call It the e-Drifter |
Feb 22nd, 2016 |
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