Genty Akylone Goes Official
Today we are going to talk about yet another new car company that plans on launching a supercar. The unknown automaker Genty Automobile from Saint Yorre, France has published a nice animation video of its Akylone supercar which although looks great, the design is certainly not original, at least in our opinion. The reason we [...]
Cars We Hate Part 16 – Corbin Sparrow
This would have to be a three-wheeled, single-passenger electric vehicle running on batteries that was designed for city driving. The car was initially manufactured by Corbin Motors and later on by Myers Motors. Advertized as a PEV – Personal Electric Vehicle, it’s one of the ugliest vehicles ever made. A bunch of these cars were [...]
350 MPGe Rating For The Edison2
Figuring out the EPA’s equivalent ratings for EVs is a little bit tricky to do as there are a series of various calculations involved, but when the Leaf has a 99 MPGe rating and this Edison2 has 350 MPGe, it means that were dealing with a very interesting car. According to the testing conducted by [...]
Oldest Running Car In The World Sold For $4.62 Million
Dubbed “La Marquise”, the oldest running car in the entire world was sold at RM Auctions’ Hershey sale for a whopping $4.62 million. We’re talking about an 1884 De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout that was sold for more than double its original pre sale estimate and it is a world record for [...]
Pininfarina Stops Making Cars, Lays Off 127 Employees
We have some very bad news coming from Italy where Pininfarina has announced that it will stop making cars and they’ll also lay off 127 employees as part of its production shut-down. This means that they’ll stop making the interesting Bluecar EV. A spokesman of the company has stated that they will focus on design [...]
My BMW Remote app for Android
BMW was the first integrating iPod into their cars, the first using iPhone connectivity. As about applying the same functionalities to Android, they were not that fast, but still (apparently, the massive amount of fragmentation of both screen sizes and Android versions out in the world are to be blamed for this, as testing and [...]
Escort Passport iQ Radar
Today we’ll have a talk about radar detectors and about Escorts Passport iQ, one of the two devices that combine radar detector function with a navigation system. So, it’s a two-in-one device. How could this combined device be a good thing and help you while driving? Well, because despite alerts about radars, the device alerts [...]
Ginetta G60 Unleashed
We have a new flagship two-seater from Ginetta named the G60, which is the first mid-engined road car for more than two decades. They’ll make only 50 units and it is in fact a reworked version of the carbon fiber-tubbed Farbio GTS, which is built by the firm that Ginetta bought back in March this [...]
Studio X-Gene Avant GT, An EV From Taiwan
Shown for the first time at this year’s edition of the Shanghai Motor Show, the Avant GT from Studio X-Gene is an all-electric vehicle that borrows some design cues from the Porsche Panamera and the Honda Crosstour for its exterior appearance, while the interior dashboard looks like it’s coming from a BMW. The car is [...]
Cars We Hate Part 14 – Studebaker Avanti
The design of the Studebaker Avanti is the work of Sherwood Egbert who came up with this peculiar styling while he was on a jet-plane flight west from Chicago just 37 days after he became president of the company in February, 1961. It could have been a great car if it hadn’t been for that [...]
Diesel Hybrid L-ATV Might Replace The Humvee In The U.S. Army
The legendary Humvee will soon be retired and the favorite vehicle to replace it is the L-ATV developed by Oshkosh Defense. It is motivated by a diesel-electric hybrid powertrain that provides a higher range in comparison to the Humvee. Thanks to this extended range it means that the Light Combat Tactical All-Terrain Vehicle (L-ATV) can [...]
Lotec TT1000 For Sale, Based On Ferrari Testarossa, Styled Like An F40
You probably haven’t heard of Lotec before, but it is a German sports car producer that is specialized in optimizing cars. One of their most popular cars is the C1000 which came out in 1995. It all started back in 1990 when the company was commissioned by a very rich oil baron from the UAE [...]
Oldest Running Car In The World Heading To Hershey Auction
It seems that a lot of interesting cars will be offered at RM Auctions’ sale that will occur on October 6-7 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Perhaps the most interesting of them all will be the 1884 De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout, which is the world’s oldest running car. It was commissioned by Count [...]
Myvi Wolfrace Design Concept Revealed
Perodua (ERusahaan Otomobil KeDUA Sendirian Berhad) is the second largest car maker in Malaysia after Proton, and they’ve teamed up with Wolfrace, a tuning company from the United Kingdom, to create this Myvi Wolfrace Design Concept that will spawn into a limited production model. If you didn’t know, the second generation of the supermini Myvi [...]
BMW Innovations – What if?
If you missed it, this BMW future concept will be Tom Cruise’s transportation method during Mission Impossbile: Ghost Protocol Movie. The German car manufacturer is delaying the announcement date of production for the BMW EfficientDynamics model. Take your time, BMW. This car is so enthusiasticly expected that everybody will want to test is, congradulate it, [...]



