(Credit: Akihabara News)Even in the face of monumental change in the automotive industry, it's amazing how conservative automakers can be sometimes. While they've focused increasingly on electronics and entertainment systems to differentiate their products, built-in stereo receivers still look pretty much the same as they have for ...
The Audiovox XM Direct 2(Credit: XM Satellite Radio)With a few honorable exceptions, car stereo manufacturers are reluctant to build satellite radio tuners into their products, preferring instead to flog you clunky--and expensive--proprietary add-on modules to go with your XM or Sirius subscription. Perhaps realizing that this model wasn'...
Another day, another mystery in the electric car industry.EnerDel, which makes a lithium-ion battery for electric cars and hybrids, announced Monday that it has been anointed the "supplier of choice" By Think Nordic, the guys coming out with an electric town car. EnerDel says its battery will keep the ...
Where do you draw the line between a motorcycle and a car?Toyota's iQ Concept, a concept car that debuted in Frankfurt and will be at the 2007 Tokyo auto show, might be better suited for the next rally in Sturgis, SD.The iQ from Toyota.Toyota is in ...
These are better than any cat video you may have seen.The German Car Blog noticed this new series of videos on Volkswagen's Swedish site for the Golf that features a menagerie of characters, each introducing a different Golf model.The "Golf Auditions" include a naked naturalist explaining the ...
(Credit: Honda)Honda is thinking very much inside the box for next week's Tokyo auto show, where it will unveil its latest hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered concept. The Puyo, whose name--according to Honda--is intended to convey "the sensation of touching the vehicle's soft body," is designed to be "kind to ...
Robosaurus crushes a car.(Credit: Universal Studios)The annual Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., is usually a place where car collectors and enthusiasts gather to admire scores of vintage Jaguars, Mercedes, Cadillacs and other fine specimens of automobiles made in years past. Those types of cars will still be there ...
(Credit: Toyota)Toyota is hoping to tap into the creative juices that will be flowing at this year's Maker Faire by sponsoring an "interactive art car build." The auto maker is providing a Toyota Matrix to attendees at the Austin, Texas, event, who are invited to transform the car ...
As part of the LA Auto Show this November, leading automakers were asked to submit ideas for a design challenge.General Motors says it based its Ant car of 2057 on the actual insect. (Credit: General Motors Advanced Design, California)This year's theme was the "RoboCar of 2057" and ...
Paper maps don't show satellite imagery, like this map from Yahoo.(Credit: Yahoo)The San Francisco Chronicle takes up the question of whether paper maps are obsolete. The article points out how paper maps no longer occupy display space right next to the cash register in service stations, and ...
