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...
Mini attempts to define its future product portfolio. Bringing Mini back from the dead in 2001 was far from easy for parent company BMW and its R&D department. The Cooper turned out to be an automotive phenomenon at the time and a massive sales success, but the following models were not so lucky.The arrival of the second-gen models contributed to the fact that sales were up 10 percent in 2015. But most new Minis simply haven’t been as hot as those first cars were. It’s easy to understand why to a certain extent; the hype and excitement around the brand...
Toyota has issued two recall campaigns, one for the 2016 Sienna and a second affecting the latest Rav4, Lexus ES 350 and RX 350. Toyota has discovered a problem, Brake Actuator assembly unit is defective on these models made for the US market. Thus, it has announced a recall affecting 4,170 examples of the 2016 RAV4, just 90 units of the 2016 Lexus RX 350, and 12,400 units of the 2016 ES 350.To fix the problem, Toyota will check out all the affected vehicles, and if the part number corresponds to the batch of bad ones, they will replace it. All known owners of the affected Toyota vehicles will...
Fiat Chrsyler Automobiles (FCA) recently announced the recall of 14,700 model year 2015-2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs because of the problems related to power steering and braking.In January 2016, a supplier had a machine failure that caused parts of be incorrectly manufactured. FCA opened an internal investigation after the supplier notified the automaker about a left front caliper that failed during a test. Additional tests showed the caliper housing falls below specification on torque fatigue and pressure fatigue tests.A cracked caliper can cause the risk of a collision or...
Fans of cars, and in particular luxury car lovers – today's news to you. One can choose the train to Times Square and spend the time smashed and uncomfortable among a massive crowd of strangers in the freezing cold. Or you could chose the best luxury car of the year, go for a ride and paint the town in red! The year 2015 has placed face to face two of the greatest titans in car industry: BMW and Lexus. The German company claimed most sales but this turns to be not enough. Recent data shows that Lexus might get the upper hand in this one, in fact, Lexus has turned up to b...
Elon Musk is convinced that some of the largest vehicles -- we're talking planes and ships -- will soon be electric. In an interview with Marketplace on Monday, the Tesla and SpaceX chief spoke of a future in which all manner of conveyances will shift away from traditional energy sources."Aircraft and ships, and all other modes of transport, will go fully electric -- not half electric, but fully electric," Musk said. Musk has been thinking electric for quite some time now, having devoted his time, energy and investments to Tesla Motors’ electric vehicles, such as the n...
