Spring is here, and it's the perfect time to discover fresh feelings of adventure.If you are willing to explore your need for speed, then RepoKar is the right place for you! RepoKar is a fun, high-octane online Public Auto Auction where you'r...
The U.S. government and private auto-safety raters made evident this week how tougher standards are moving beyond crash tests that just measure passenger protection. Now, they're evaluating systems that can avoid accidents altogether.The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Thursday that 48 vehicles earned its highest rating of "Top Safety Cars." Toyota, Honda and Subaru are the winners, with 23 combined. Volkswagen and its luxury brand, Audi, had seven winners. Volvo, Hyundai and Mazda each had multiple winners. The Chrysler 200 was the only domestic car to earn the ...
Takata Corp. handled their air bag crisis is the very reason why they lost one of their biggest investors, Sawakami Asset Management. He was one of the automotive supplier, 12th largest shareholder, but the firm lost faith in Takata after the management refused to explain what was happening during the crisis. “We could not help feeling the management is not trustworthy,” fund manager Takahiro Kusakari said in an interview from his office in Tokyo. “We felt Takata had a ‘we are needed and our products are needed, so the business will come back and the situation won&...
According to calculations based on actual monthly sales reported by the manufacturers, the first reports of November auto sales are in.Statistics show that Hyundai, Nissan and Toyota set the pace in November. Gains among major players fell within a narrow range of 0.3 percent at Ford Motor Co. to 3.8 percent at Nissan Motor Co. Hyundai’s 12 percent increase stood out in percentage terms. Hyundai generated sales of 60,007 vehicles, up 12 percent, for its best-ever November. Only American Honda and Volkswagen Group posted a decline in volume. Overall U.S. sales, wi...
This 1972 BMW 2002 project was for sale on eBay in Costa Mesa, California for the reasonable price of $104,990. Since the listing went up a few days ago, the seller has ended it without explaining the reasons behind it.Paul Cain, a long time vintage BMW enthusiast, completed this BMW 2002 project in 2017. Starting with an old 1972 BMW, he and his brother, Joe, meticulously poured over every inch of the car to build the ultimate, a modern BMW 2002.The final result is a twin-turbocharged, M54 6-cylinder, 5-speed beast with a nearly perfect 51/49 weight distribution. That balance was achieved, in...
We know that electric cars are involved in production, and we know that they’re probably years away from starting the sales. For the past decade, Tesla has creaded the cars of the future: sleekly designed, technically advanced machines that brought with them a vision of how amazing and practical electric cars could be. But now trading as a public company, Tesla is no longer the energetic new kid on the block — and it could be ripe for disruption, if Faraday gets its way. Faraday Future first came into the news last summer when news leaked of its existence and its intention to produ...
