Новости за 15.12.2020

I recently made a discovery that I can actually achieve a dream of mine to own a tiny Japanese kei car. I’ve been scouring the web for some good, cheap kei car fun. That’s when I found this 1995 Honda Acty Fire Truck, and now my heart is gushing.

The 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E is The Blue Oval’s first-ever high-volume electric car and an important step in keeping Ford competitive as the entire industry shifts towards EVs. I just drove the Mach-E for the first time, and while I wouldn’t call it exciting, it’s a good electric crossover SUV.

It’s a depressing thing when one of the world’s oldest automakers, a 20th-century bastion of manufacturing, proselytizes something as mundane as over-the-air (OTA) software updates. But that’s exactly where Ford finds itself, as revealed in an Automotive News interview with one of the company’s top engineers in the…

One of the things I love most about cars as human-made objects we should be uncomfortably obsessed with is that they’re very full sensory experiences. There are strong visual elements, a huge auditory component, so many good surfaces and materials to touch, the feelings of motion and speed and vibrations — so much…

Another week has passed and that means another week of sweet cars found online that I wish I could own. I like finding cheap used cars that can either be daily driven right away or daily driven after minor work. Over the past couple of years I’ve turned it into a bit of a skill.

I’m not one to be overly impressed by something as normal as a Chevrolet Traverse, let alone one that is pushing $80,000. But BraunAbility’s all-new wheelchair conversion of GM’s family crossover gives disabled drivers a super spacious and feature-packed mobility option. Though it doesn’t come cheap.

General Motors announced the opening of a new facility at its Warren, Michigan, plant on Monday. The facility will be GM’s in-house 3D printing center, and the carmaker hopes it will help move car production along. We have other hopes of our own.

Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess is probably feeling a bit better about his job security, the Nissan Rogue is as important as ever to Nissan’s future, and Genesis. All that and more in The Morning Shift for December 15, 2020.

This is kind of a silly question. The great American land yacht is a dream. It’s a worthwhile dream to have, but it’s not something that has a tangible realization. Take the 1988 Cadillac Voyage for example.

There’s very few times in automotive history where you could basically specify a hood/nose as an option for a vehicle, but these old MAN trucks seem to be one of those rare times. What a glorious world it would be if you could go into any dealership and ask for, say, an Altima, with the noseless option, or maybe a…

Does your car really need to advertise what it is on the road everyday? I’m sure that OEMs rely on vehicle badging for visibility and brand recognition, but that advertising is plastered on your car that you’ve paid for. Much like dealership license plate frames or bumper stickers, I have always preferred the look of…

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With its dually back end, diesel V8 and four on the floor, today’s Nice Price or No Dice F-250 sure seems to have what it takes to get the job done. We’ll still have to decide if its price works for us.

It’s that time of year again, where car companies dig deep into their well of holiday advertising campaigns and recycle the very tired and unoriginal concept of surprising a loved one by financing a major purchase as a holiday gift. Saturday Night Live recently showed how this might go wrong.

The UAW is finally beginning to emerge from a corruption scandal that has dogged it for years, with 15 people convicted in a federal investigation, including former presidents Dennis Williams and Gary Jones. The question looming over all of it was whether there would be a federal takeover of the union itself. That’s…

Fans of BBC television may have noticed that certain high-budget episodes of their favorite series feature huge car crashes and realistic motorway scenes. Those great episodes of television were brought to you by a failed state infrastructure project in a small town in England.

2020 has been really tough on the McLaren brand, both on the track and on the road. After the F1 season was delayed and then eventually run without fans in the stands for most of the season, the team was reeling with lots of development costs and no payoffs. Then, on the supercar production side of the business,…

The Subaru Crosstrek is a sensible, high-riding Impreza that can be moderately enjoyable to live with, so long as you opt for the six-speed manual and not the CVT model. What it isn’t — at least not normally, anyway — is a rally car.

The Toyota GR Yaris — better known to devoted fans of the type as the Yaris GR4 — has been more universally hyped in recent times than any other car, in such demand I couldn’t even borrow a press-fleet car yet. To test Toyota’s homologation hot hatch, this street-legal version of a rally car that’s never actually…