Ford may have found a way for drifting to live on in the age of electric cars. First spotted by Motor1, a recent patent filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) shows a drift mode designed to work with an internal-combustion engine or electric motor. Ford introduced drift mode on the Focus […]
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Renault resumed production at its Moscow plant on Monday, a company spokesperson told Reuters. The French automaker suspended operations at the plant in late February, saying at the time it was due to a “forced change in existing logistic routes.” The Moscow plant builds the Renault Duster, Kaptur and Arkana models, and the Nissan Terrano.
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Ford Motor Co., seeking to fill the leadership team of its newly created Ford Blue division, said Kiersten Robinson, its top human resources executive, would become general manager of Ford Blue’s family vehicles as well as president of Ford’s operations in Mexico and Canada. Robinson will report to Kumar Galhotra, president of Ford Blue, and
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After declaring this month that they had no intention of doing so, Volkswagen executives are now rethinking their plans to keep production of the retro-styled electric minivan, the ID Buzz, anchored exclusively in Hanover, Germany, with North American production now a possibility. So what changed between March 10 and March 21? Consumer reaction — especially
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It shouldn’t need to be said, but just because you own a fast car, that doesn’t mean that you’re exempt from the law. Case in point is this C8 Chevrolet Corvette driver who led police on a high-speed chase before eventually engaging them in a standoff. The incident started at around 9 PM last week,
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Fisker on Monday announced a driver-assist system for its Ocean electric crossover SUV, which scheduled to start production in November. Dubbed Fisker Intelligent Pilot (or FI Pilot for short), the system is built around a suite of sensors that includes an 8-megapixel front camera (part of a surround-view camera array) and what Fisker calls the
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The Range Rover Velar has been an impressive luxury SUV from the moment it hit the market a few years ago and in updated 2022 guise, it seems to be even better. Land Rover unveiled the updated Velar in August last year and while the updates made are only minor, they add to what was
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The robots will take the most tedious, most dangerous jobs first, in most things. Trucking is no exception. Autonomous driving engineers are squarely focused on long-haul freight, the interstate runs with almost no complexity save for a slow curve or an E-ZPass lane. As such, those routes are some of the simpler challenges on the
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Andy Kunz knows what makes a city great. After all, he has degrees in fine arts and urban design and a background in landscape architecture and urban planning. But it took a more whimsical, or you could say magical, experience during his childhood to draw him toward his passion, high-speed rail: It was the 1971
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General Motors is pulling back the curtain to show viewers the genesis and development of its first electric pickup, the GMC Hummer. A one-hour documentary called Revolution: GMC Hummer EV will premiere Sunday, March 27, on the History Channel, GMC and A+E Networks said last week. The film shows how the GM team launched the
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