As we get closer to Memorial Day weekend, there’s closer focus on gas prices for the heavily-traveled holiday period. For the moment at least, fuel flows about 25 cents cheaper per gallon than this time in 2011, according to AAA. That’s also about the current price gap between regular and premium, give or take. Some drivers are...
About half of all Americans use Facebook, and yet, just days before the company launches one of the most eagerly anticipated IPOs in recent memory, General Motors has pulled all advertising from the network. This isn't especially surprising. GM's head marketing honcho, Joel Ewanick, has long been a critic of social media. About two years ago, he...
Today at High Gear Media, Guy Fieri is going to drive the pace car at the Indianapolis 500 and someone is posing as a fake cop and killing people. Audi designed a chair and we reviewed the 2013 Kia Rio. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. The 2012 Hyundai Elantra is being investigated after an airbag severed a...
Crowdsourcing is everywhere these days. Astronomers are using it to find rogue asteroids. City planners use it to revitalize downtown promenades. And it's the ethos behind the game-changing Kickstarter.com. So naturally, when Audi's Lightweight Design Centre needed to crank out a new chair, it followed suit. Audi's designers were tasked with...
The Land Rover Range Rover Sport is a five-door luxury sport-utility vehicle designed and first produced by the British automaker when it still was owned by Ford Motor Company. Since 2008, Land Rover has been a part of the Tata Group, which has brought an updated version of the Sport to the U.S. for the 2010 model year. The Range Rover Sport was...
With its bulldog nose, edgy roofline, and boxy, appliance-like tail, the Kia Soul brought a new attitude to small cars--as well as more practicality and small-car spirit to small utility vehicles. Just one look inside and out is all it takes to see and understand why the Kia Soul has been a very popular small vehicle, far outselling other boxes...
A Range Rover for a more enthusiastic set of drivers, the Range Rover Sport may not be the brand's hallmark vehicle, but it is its most exciting vehicle, even with the arrival of the pint-sized Evoque. Reimagined on a smaller scale than the big Rangie, but with much of its off-road ability, the Sport is the stepping stone between the formal, regal...
The Audi TT is a sporty 2+2 coupe or convertible that has evolved significantly since 2000, when it was first introduced. While for the first few years after its 2000 model-year intro, the TT was strictly rolling sculpture and eye candy, it's changed roles somewhat, morphing into more of a full-fledged sports car. In any case, the sporty TT and...
The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco, and the 2012 Hyundai Azera—both recently redesigned family-size sedans—have earned top crash-test ratings across the board from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Also taking into consideration their standard safety equipment, they've been named among the list of IIHS Top Safety Picks. The...
Just a year ago, a Prius was a Prius. But this year, say that iconic hybrid model name and you could be speaking of one of three different body styles or four quite different models—the 2012 Toyota Prius Liftback, the Toyota Prius V wagon, the Toyota Prius Plug-In, or the Toyota Prius C. And with each of them quite different in weight, if...
As we get closer to Memorial Day weekend, there’s closer focus on gas prices for the heavily-traveled holiday period. For the moment at least, fuel flows about 25 cents cheaper per gallon than this time in 2011, according to AAA. That’s also about the current price gap between regular and premium, give or take. Some drivers are...
About half of all Americans use Facebook, and yet, just days before the company launches one of the most eagerly anticipated IPOs in recent memory, General Motors has pulled all advertising from the network. This isn't especially surprising. GM's head marketing honcho, Joel Ewanick, has long been a critic of social media. About two years ago, he...
Today at High Gear Media, Guy Fieri is going to drive the pace car at the Indianapolis 500 and someone is posing as a fake cop and killing people. Audi designed a chair and we reviewed the 2013 Kia Rio. All this and more in today's car news, right here on The Car Connection. The 2012 Hyundai Elantra is being investigated after an airbag severed a...
Crowdsourcing is everywhere these days. Astronomers are using it to find rogue asteroids. City planners use it to revitalize downtown promenades. And it's the ethos behind the game-changing Kickstarter.com. So naturally, when Audi's Lightweight Design Centre needed to crank out a new chair, it followed suit. Audi's designers were tasked with...
The Land Rover Range Rover Sport is a five-door luxury sport-utility vehicle designed and first produced by the British automaker when it still was owned by Ford Motor Company. Since 2008, Land Rover has been a part of the Tata Group, which has brought an updated version of the Sport to the U.S. for the 2010 model year. The Range Rover Sport was...
With its bulldog nose, edgy roofline, and boxy, appliance-like tail, the Kia Soul brought a new attitude to small cars--as well as more practicality and small-car spirit to small utility vehicles. Just one look inside and out is all it takes to see and understand why the Kia Soul has been a very popular small vehicle, far outselling other boxes...
A Range Rover for a more enthusiastic set of drivers, the Range Rover Sport may not be the brand's hallmark vehicle, but it is its most exciting vehicle, even with the arrival of the pint-sized Evoque. Reimagined on a smaller scale than the big Rangie, but with much of its off-road ability, the Sport is the stepping stone between the formal, regal...
The Audi TT is a sporty 2+2 coupe or convertible that has evolved significantly since 2000, when it was first introduced. While for the first few years after its 2000 model-year intro, the TT was strictly rolling sculpture and eye candy, it's changed roles somewhat, morphing into more of a full-fledged sports car. In any case, the sporty TT and...
The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco, and the 2012 Hyundai Azera—both recently redesigned family-size sedans—have earned top crash-test ratings across the board from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Also taking into consideration their standard safety equipment, they've been named among the list of IIHS Top Safety Picks. The...
Just a year ago, a Prius was a Prius. But this year, say that iconic hybrid model name and you could be speaking of one of three different body styles or four quite different models—the 2012 Toyota Prius Liftback, the Toyota Prius V wagon, the Toyota Prius Plug-In, or the Toyota Prius C. And with each of them quite different in weight, if...
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