Detroit Should Not Give Ford a $104 Million Tax Break

Ford, as expected, launched a charm initiative this week to win over the Detroit City Council and secure a $100 million tax break from the city to support its rehab of a train station near downtown. The facility, Michigan Central Station, has been shuttered for decades, and Ford wants to...

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla Autopilot Not Working After Latest Over-the-Air Update, Owners Say

A hiccup in Tesla’s latest over-the-air update caused several owners to lose all functionality of their vehicle’s semi-autonomous driver aid system. Tesla told one driver it’s a “known issue” internally and a fix is expected by Friday. Tesla’s cutting-edge ability to send fixes remotely to vehicles has earned the company...

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla's Now On Trial Over an Elon Musk Tweet

Tesla heads back to court later this month to continue a trial over allegations from the National Labor Relations Board that the automaker’s management violated federal labor laws. When both sides meet in court, they’ll duke it out over a new, potentially thorny legal issue that emerged in late August:...

Sep 12, 2025

This is How Daimler and Bosch's Automated Valet Parking Works

There are very few things worse than handing over your keys to a stranger and praying they take care of your car and don’t stuff it into a wall or, y’know, . The struggle of valet parking is something I’m sure we all have to deal with on a very...

Sep 12, 2025

Cadillac is Putting Its Diesel Program on Hold Because the Future Looks Electric (Updated)

There was a period in the recent past where it looked like the future might be powered by diesel engines. With a generally greater fuel efficiency than your standard gasoline engine, the automotive industry today could have been massively different. Then, happened and manufacturers got a little hesitant being associated...

Sep 12, 2025

How Honda's VTEC Engines Work and How VTEC Can Kick In, Yo

Honda’s Variable Valve Timing & Lift Electronic Control system, known as VTEC instead of the more accurate VVTLEC, is one of those things that various parts of , and as a result, almost everyone with even a passing interest in cars is aware of VTEC and its propensity to kick...

Sep 12, 2025

This Kia Costs $34,000 to Repair and It's Not Alone

New cars come with all sorts of advanced technology designed to keep drivers safe, but all those safety-increasing gadgets come with a price—and it’s not just the initial cost of the technology that’s hitting car owners hard. Take, for example, the . You probably don’t think about Kia’s $49,900, V6...

Sep 12, 2025

Porsche's New 'Electric Pit Stop' Breaks EV Charging Station Duties Into Modular Blocks and Skinny Poles

Yesterday, Porsche showed off its new electric vehicle charging station architecture, which involves breaking up a number of tasks that might normally all be done within a single charging “cabinet” into rectangular modules and slim charging poles. Here’s how it works. We’ve known about Porsche’s 800 volt charging stations—which the...

Sep 12, 2025

Be Advised: Apple's Latest iOS Update Lets You Use Google Maps In Apple CarPlay

Some good news if you don’t really care for driving with Apple Maps, which seems to be just about everybody: with the latest iOS 12 update, you can now run third-party map apps from Apple CarPlay. Yes, including the objectively better Google Maps. This is good news. As reported by...

Sep 12, 2025

Data Confirms That Handbrakes Are Dying, Slowly and Painfully

Handbrakes used to have a real function outside of sick bootlegger’s turns, back decades ago when car brakes weren’t terribly reliable and you did need a last-resort emergency brake. But federal regulations improving car brakes have made that function a relic of the past, so it’s no surprise that, increasingly,...

Sep 12, 2025

What the 2019 Audi E-Tron Shares With the Porsche Macan and the Mustang Shelby GT350

The is a big deal; it’s Audi’s first fully electric vehicle, and the first of many. But while it was developed as an electric vehicle from the ground up, it unsurprisingly draws from the Volkswagen Audi Group stable—and some more unlikely places. The E-Tron is the first vehicle to ride...

Sep 12, 2025

Amazon Wants Alexa in Your Car Now

Amazon today unveiled Echo Auto, capable of putting Alexa into every car in the world for the price of $49.99. In our not-too-distant future Alexa is everywhere. Echo Auto sits on your center console and, like a regular Echo, responds to voice commands to get you information from Google’s vast...

Sep 12, 2025

GM’s New Patent Application Could Be Used to Do a Manual Mid-Engine Corvette

We’ve seen lots of spy shots and even videos of the prototypes running around but almost all of them seem to point to the use of a dual-clutch transmission. While we don’t have any concrete, confirmed details on the powertrain yet, a new patent application from General Motors may show...

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla Hasn't Started Developing a Time Machine 'YET': Court Filing

Tesla has been fairly busy as of late trying to ramp up production of the Model 3 sedan while having to address the . It also has a number of products in the works—, a , an , a pickup truck (). One thing it’s not working on? A time...

Sep 12, 2025

This Is The Robot Being Used To Prevent Tomorrow's Car Crashes

There’s a hell of a lot of testing that needs to be done to not only get to fully-autonomous cars, but to even have the sort of technology that a lot of modern cars have today like radar-guided cruise control and active braking systems. This is how they test them....

Sep 12, 2025