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 British brand hit the perfect car spot with its newest F-Type SVR. The Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) performance division starts by turning up the wick on the F-Type's supercharged 5.0-liter V-8. With techniques adopted from the F-Type Project 7, the SVR now makes 575 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque -- up from the R's 550 ponies and 502 pound-feet. It's not just more powerful; the SVR models are also 55 pounds lighter than their respective F-Type R AWD analogs -- 35 of those pounds were saved by replacing the standard steel exhaust with a...
Want to work at a new car company? Google is hiring!Google parent company Alphabet has posted ads for 36 positions for marketing to manufacturing jobs on its website related to the Google X car project.One listing for a marketing manager expects the person to shape a "go-to-market strategy and storytelling to win hearts and minds of community members, influences and governments".Another role for a manufacturing process engineer lays out responsibilities which include "designing factory assembly stations, optimizing production floor layout, automating critical manufacturing proce...
Gordon Kelly was an industrial designer from Wisconsin with the wish to design his own sports car. This stunning 1961 Kelly Corvette is proof to all car enthusiasts that anything is possible with enough luck, a great dream and lots of dedication. It appeared at major auto shows and graced the covers of magazines, and with good reason: as you can see for yourself, Kelley's design and Vignale's work came together greatfully.Today the car's custodian is one John Breslow - he is a guy from Nebraska who owned a welding supply company, only to sell it in 2006 and start putting ...
Oil prices will stay low for as long as 10 years as Chinese economic growth slows and the U.S. shale industry acts as a cap on any rally, according to the world’s largest independent oil-trading house."You have to believe that there is a possibility that you will not necessarily go back above $100, you know, ever," Ian Taylor, Chief Executive Officer of Vitol Group BV, told Bloomberg. His company is the world's largest independent oil trader. Instead of any significant increase or decrease, the exec believes crude could hit $45 to $50 a barrel in the latter half of 2016 and...
The world's top-selling automaker Toyota stops producing vehicles at all assembly lines across Japan for an entire week because of a parts shortage. The shutdown could tighten supplies of Toyota and Lexus vehicles sold in the U.S.The production suspension begins next Monday and runs through Feb. 13. It will cost Toyota 84,000 vehicles. About 14,000 of those would be exported to the U.S.According to the company, an explosion knocked out the essential furnace of the No.2 Bar Mill Shop of Aichi Steel’s waterfront Chita Plant in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The plant is located halfway betwe...
