Monthly Archives: February 2015

The current Toyota Prius isn't the bright shiny object grabbing our attention…

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The current Toyota Prius isn't the bright shiny object grabbing our attention right now, but I think it still matters

What do you think??

Does the Toyota Prius still matter? It does if you care about hydrogen cars
Toyota says the iconic gas-electric Prius hybrid remains important because it shows how the Mirai fuel cell vehicle will grab the future.

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Coming in early 2016, it's the new Ford Focus RS

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In album 2017 Ford Focus RS

The newest high-performance +Ford Motor Company Focus RS builds on the success of its predecessors and should be one one awesome machine to drive. As usual for an initial reveal a year ahead of availability, Ford was sparse on details, after all they have to make this story last. Here's what we do know, the RS is powered by the highest-output version of the 2.3-liter EcoBoost yet. With the usual "more than 315 hp" we don't know how far past the 310-hp Mustang this one will go. Chief engineer Jamal Hameedi did acknowledge that it has a different turbo and cylinder head than the Mustang engine.

Every Focus RS will route power through a six-speed manual gearbox only, no automatics or DCTs. From there an all-new Ford Performance all-wheel-drive system will send torque to where it can do the most good. A center clutch pack can route as much as 70 percent of torque to the rear axle while another electronically controlled clutch can direct up to 100 percent of the rear torque to either the left or right wheel.

With the Taurus SHO getting long in the tooth, how about a Fusion SHO with this powerplant or perhaps an upgraded version of the 2.7-liter EcoBoost V6 and this all-wheel-drive system? Just sayin'?


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2015 Toyota Camry XSE – It’s Not So Beige Anymore

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Over the years certain brands of cars have become inexorably associated with colors. Regardless of what is sprayed on in the paint shop, a Ferrari is always a deep scarlet red at heart. Anything built on the north side of the English Channel should be a dark green. High performance cars wearing a three-pointed star or four rings are silver arrows. The Toyota Camry? Beige through and through.

Beige is not an offensive hue. Quite the opposite in fact, it may well be the best camouflage color in the known universe. Instead of garish swirlies that are guaranteed to attract attention, automakers should just paint all their prototypes beige and spy photographers would never even see them.

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This is why you never see self-driving car prototypes playing in the snow 1

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This is why you never see self-driving car prototypes playing in the snow

We're a lot farther from general use self-driving driving cars than those in Silicon Valley would like you to believe.  The radar sensor in the front and the rear camera are completely covered. While the snow was falling, I had to turn off the parking assist because the falling snow was triggering the ultrasonic sensors causing the system to beep continuously while there was nothing around the vehicle.?


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Holy Shit! The line between mad man and genius is indeed a very slim one

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This is why I love Le Mans sports car racing and the rules package created by the ACO. Sure it's insanely expensive, but where else in racing today (or the past couple of decades really) have you seen any truly original thinking. Thankfully +Nissan have stepped up and given the incredible Ben Bowlby an opportunity to stretch his creative muscles. I have no idea if this car will run away with it at Le Mans or be a complete disaster, but either way it's going to be great fun to watch it take on the Audis, Porsches and Toyotas. ?

Developing the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO
From a computer screen in Dan Gurney’s shop to the commercial shoot at America’s grand prix circuit., how Nissan’s crazy new race car came to be.

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