Reflecting on this year’s Super Bowl ads, I suspect I’m going to sound grumpy and old — except that I’m not complaining about the hip-hop halftime show and Eminem taking a knee. Full disclosure: I’m no fan of the NFL, having quit watching the league almost three decades ago. Aside from one game at Ford […]
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The new BMW M240i xDrive has stirred up quite a lot of debate since its unveiling and the guys over at The Smoking Tire recently had the opportunity to test it out for the very first time. The new 2-Series Coupe is noticeably larger than its predecessor and while the range is currently topped out
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From doors that simply match the wall to bookcases that open with the pull of a book, hidden entryways are usually fascinating. And Ideal Park has taken it to the next level. At a newly built home called the Casa da Qinta da Marinha, in one of Portugal‘s richest neighborhoods, the company has installed a
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When Honda stepped into the game of fully electric citycars, it certainly did it in style. The Honda e, unveiled in production form in 2019, has been praised for its minimalist retro-futuristic design inspired by the first-gen Civic, but it also carries the huge role of being some kind of a halo model for the
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Toyota may be looking to keep the manual transmission alive in electric vehicles. A series of patent applications spotted by Toyota BZ Forum users describe a way for EV drivers to shift themselves. Most electric cars only have one or two forward gears, and that wouldn’t change here. The patent documents describe a shifter and
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The billionaire Agnelli family’s companies agreed to pay 949 million euros ($1.08 billion) to settle an investigation by the Italian Tax Agency. Exor SpA, which controls Ferrari and is Stellantis‘ biggest shareholder, agreed to pay 746 million euros for so-called exit tax claims relating to its 2016 merger with its Dutch subsidiary, Exor Holding NV,
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Tesla is facing a new round of regulatory pressures for unintended braking by its electric vehicles, allegations of racism at its California factory and ongoing scrutiny of CEO Elon Musk by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for public comments that could affect the company’s stock price. Tesla and Musk fired back last week, claiming
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Yet another Ford Mustang has been involved in a crash in the U.S. but this one is a little different from most others as it doesn’t feature an overzealous driver with a lead foot leaving a car meet. Footage of the crash was shared to Reddit and shows the driver of the Mustang stopping on
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission denied it’s targeting Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk with endless probes, as he claimed in a letter to a judge earlier this week. The SEC reached settlements with Musk and Tesla in September 2018 after suing Musk over his infamous “funding secured” tweets in which he claimed to have
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TOKYO — EV latecomer Toyota hasn’t even launched its first serious electric vehicle yet. But the company is already preparing a full fleet of all-electric cars for the day its EVs go mainstream. That time is not so far away. By the end of the decade, Toyota plans a wide EV lineup encompassing pickups, sports
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