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...
All of us know that electric vehicles are cleaner, greener and more fun to drive. There are about 30 plug-in electric sports cars, SUVs and sedans available from such makes as BMW, Nissan, Chevrolet, Tesla, Ford and many other automakers. They offer a wide range of terrific options and still, their sales are only 1% of total monthly U.S. auto sales. The California Air Resources Board's Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) program requires automakers to sell increasing numbers of EVs between now and 2025. Because of the many environmental and economic benefits of electric vehicles, the ZE...
It's been revealed, that General Motors has payed money to its dealers for 7 years already. All these years more than $5 billion were offered to GM dealerships, under the EBE program. But now, that most of them have done some shiny makeovers, there's no need to make some extra, right? GM has decided to keep that spigot open for any of its Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC dealers who jump though the necessary hoops under the brand standards program called Essential Brand Elements. The cash will be an incentive for dealers to keep those stores modern with new video displays...
The U.S. automotive industry has been through a rough few years filled with massive recalls, congressional hearings, record fines, and allegations, at times, of a careless, shoddy approach to safety. Still, this does not prevent them to buy cars and trucks at record levels and at record prices. John Humphrey, senior vice president of J.D. Power’s global automotive practice, said that the number of recalls is very big and yet the industry is selling more cars than ever. Legendary consumer safety advocate Ralph Nader said that the cars are much safer, less polluting, modestly f...
While smart cars are a 21st century thing, the convenience has a darker side. Researchers have shown that it takes a tool as cheap as $40 to bypass the “keyless system” in tens of millions of Volkswagen cars, including Audis and SEATs.Four European researchers say hackers can easily eavesdrop on the signal which is sent every time a driver presses their key fob to lock or unlock a car. All the thieves need is a cheap technical device and to be somewhere within 100 meters of a vehicle. Flavio Garcia and his team at the University of Birmingham reverse-engineered an undisclosed compo...
As it was revealed after, US markets didn't do much in Friday's trading session. Weakness in US retail sales is already being felt, from an economic perspective the retail sales data wasn't to healthy. Sales for the month of July were flat, against expectations of a 0.4% gain. Excluding car sales, retail spending dropped 0.3%. The US car market looks like is betting it will never get to the end of it. There are always reasons for “data-dependent” to hold off. That is the reason why stocks are trading at-all time highs, even while the economy limps along like ...
