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 world's biggest carmakers have made a fresh show of electric Porsche capable of travelling 500km on a single charge and refuelling to almost 15 minutes.The new electric Porsche Mission E concept car is presented during the Volkswagen group night at the Fraport arena in Frankfurt am Main, Western Germany, on September 14, 2015The 100 % electric Mission E boasts an 800-volt drive system 600 hp.Though it loses out to the Model S in terms of acceleration — doing 0-60mph in 3.5 seconds, versus less than 3 seconds for Tesla — the charging time is impressive. Porsche says it can r...
After currently testing the self-driving cars in California and Texas, Google decided to develop and to move towards selling the cars.Google's self-driving cars, limited to 25mph, include sensors and 3D mapping technology which create a virtual map of the car's current environment and obstacles. There have been a reported 11 cases of accidents involving the cars, all of which Google claims were down to human error.A few details has been developed, which now include a new set of buttons -- "go," "please slow down and stop," and "stop pretty quickly" -- usef...
With a much lower gain than that of previous recent years, the Classic Auto Auction world seems to have hit a wall, and it will not be able to climb it for a while.For example, the prestigious Auctions held on the Monterey Peninsula last week were down a total of $20 million from their high of 2014.From all angles, we get the same advice: The market is stabilizing and the value of unsold inventory has doubled that of 2013. Perhaps, now we can deduct, in hindsight, that 2013 was the peak for this specific market. In fact, Blue Chip items such as automobiles from the 50’s to the 70&r...
China’s Black Monday sent the western markets into a tail-spin. And even though it was not as bad of a tail-spin as it was anticipated, it nevertheless sent the rest of the world stock markets —principally in the west, into a “Correction Mode.” And for good measure.When the markets close on Tuesday, we will know if investors decided to drive a strong recovery or if it all was left to spiral down deeper into the red abyss. Whatever happens, the general public will have now to learn a very strong and harsh truth: What happens around the world or outside our bo...
2.8-SECOND 0-60 SPRINT TIME IS NOW A $10,000 UPGRADE AWAYTesla's upgrade from Insane Mode to Ludicrous Speed is now available on the Tesla Model S, allowing the pure-electric sedan to make the sprint from 0 to 60 mph in just 2.8 seconds. That's down from a relaxed, gentle 3.2-second launch time.This ... ridiculous upgrade, which has cut the sprint time by 10 percent, resulted from Tesla developing what it calls a "smart fuse" for the battery in the Model S. The company created a fuse for the main battery with its own lithium-ion battery...
