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...
We know, we know. The whole “cars-as-rolling-sculpture” thing is a bit of a cliché, but it’s still a good reminder that cars are best appreciated in motion -- which is why the annual Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance, held the Thursday before the Concours d’Elegance and free to watch from nearly anywhere along its route, is a Monterey car week must-see. The format is simple: car participating in the concours cruise around the Monterey peninsula, take in the jaw-dropping vistas of Big Sur and then head back to Carmel-by-the-Sea for a champagne receptio...
Americans are leasing a record number of new cars and trucks — more than 1 in 4 of the new vehicles rolling off dealer lots.Leasing is popular because it offers lower monthly payments than traditional auto loans. If you can't afford the payments on a loan, Anthony Giorgianni, Associate Finance Editor at Consumer Reports Money Adviser, says it's a good sign you can't afford that car or truck. "Leasing puts you in a cycle to get a new car every few years when the depreciation is greatest," Giorgianni says, "and you just have [monthly payments] indefinitely.&rdquo...
George Miller is relaunching Mad Max with the long-rumored, then long-delayed, and now imminent Mad Max: Fury Road. Miller needed about 25 years of development, including 12 agonizing years after announcing that a script had been written, to get this movie made. And while previous Max movies were filmed in the Australian outback, this one was shot in Namibia. Here are 10 of the vehicles featured in the film:Plymouth RockBuilt around the desiccated remains of what appears to be a 1937 Plymouth sedan, this metallic hyena’s mission is to scrounge the wasteland looking for carrion to c...
Automobile history is rich and complex and as a result there are some pretty interesting, and also some pretty weird facts and statistics accrued over the years.US President Lyndon B. Johnson owned an amphibious car and used to drive guests into the lake to scare them, screaming about brake failure. There have been more Ford Fiestas sold in the UK than people in LebanonA 4,115,000 Ford Fiesta models have been sold in the UK, making the model the best-selling car in the UK. By comparison, the entire country of Lebanon has a total population of only 4,104,000 citizens.Koenigsegg’s fou...
Mercedes-Benz just unveiled its vision of the future of the automobile at Consumer Electronics Show 2015 – it's a self-driving car that looks just fantastic and drives even better. The F 015 Luxury in Motion research vehicle is “an illustration of how the car will grow beyond a means of transport and into a private retreat bringing comfort and luxury to a new level.” Mercedes envisions cars of the future not just as means of transportation from point A to point B, but as “private retreats,” or lounges of sorts. The F 015 concept lets passenger...
