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 advent of Uber and Lyft marked a shift towards on-demand and shared mobility, and promises to require changes of the game for commuters and carmakers. More and more people realize that vehicles have high up-front costs to own and depreciate swiftly, but they aren't necessarily heavily utilized.The possible on-demand revolution will for sure affect automakers. The analysts acknowledge that the proliferation of on-demand vehicles could ultimately reduce the number of cars on the road in the U.S. by more than 25 million, with population density serving as a key determinant ...
After the first quarter of the year is over, many dealers nationwide note that new vehicles sales stagnated and this makes them search for steps to protect profits in case the market slows or slides.The 2008-09 recession taught a lot of things the car dealing companies, and it is hard to imagine that people didn't become really knowledgeable during that time on what to do and how to adjust when downturns take place. After Mike Jackson, AutoNation Inc. CEO, saw new-vehicle sales slowing at AutoNation's 254 stores in the fourth quarter of 2015, he warned of a sa...
Many of the autonomous driving enthusiasts are racing to bring self-driving cars to market. However there are no less engineering scientists who speak about the risks and the immaturity of the self-driving technologies at the moment. This is Missy Cummings' opinion, an engineering professor and human-factors expert at Duke University who argued self-driving cars are "absolutely not ready for widespread deployment." As a professor, Cummings is leading a National Science Foundation-funded study of how pedestrians interact with self-driving cars. As on...
Several Illinois dealerships have recently filed a civil racketeering lawsuit alleging FCA paid dealers to improperly inflate sales. Fiat Chrysler reacted saying that the allegations are “baseless” and represent an attempt to “publicly smear” the automaker.FCA used a legal salvo for the first time since dealerships owned by the Napleton Automotive Group filed a suit on Jan. 12. FCA seeks to have the Napleton dealerships’ suit dismissed entirely, saying it is “replete with conclusory allegations, substitutes vitriol for plausibil...
An original beach-loving car invented by the British in 1960s - The Citroen e-Mehari has no doors and a removable fabric top to make the most of summer. With plastic seats and floors, the interior can also be cleaned to get rid of sand. Now, it is on sale in France for €25,000 (almost $28,000), just in time for drivers to soak up some rays in their head-turning new plastic car on vacation to the French Riviera.It is an electric-powered car and has a driving range of just 200km and takes 13 hours to recharge from empty and powered by a range of tiny four-cylinder petrol engines taken ...
