Yearly Archives: 2016

Google sunsets products that it doesn't care about any more all the time

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Google sunsets products that it doesn't care about any more all the time. Might it do the same to its self-driving cars?

Another Downside Of Driving Automation – What If The Manufacturer Decides To Shut Down?
A self-driving car traverses a parking lot at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California on January 8, 2016. / AFP / Noah Berger (Photo credit should read NOAH BERGER/AFP/Getty Images) For the past 130 years, whenever we buy a car, we expect it to continue operating relatively normally until the mechanical […]

2016 Dodge Charger SXT Blacktop – For Pony Car Fans With a Family

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2016 Dodge Charger SXT blacktopIf you’re the type of driver that inclined toward cars like the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro or Dodge Challenger but regularly need to bring along more than one adult friend or strap kids into car seats, Dodge has an alternative for you. In many respects, the Dodge Charger is the family pony car. After spending a week with a 2016 Charger SXT Black Top Edition, I can attest that it has the feel these drivers would be looking for.

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Tesla Model 3 is more than I expected but there are still a lot of unanswered qu…

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Tesla Model 3 is more than I expected but there are still a lot of unanswered questions

Tesla Model 3 Revealed – What I Got Wrong And What We Still Don’t Know
Tesla Model 3 (image credit: Tesla Motors) Now that Tesla has finally revealed, the Model 3, I can happily say that I was wrong on at least two major points in my recent column on how much the company’s first affordable electric car would actually cost. However, given that the Model […]

Crossovers like the Fiat 500X point the way to what we'll be seeing more of …

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Crossovers like the Fiat 500X point the way to what we'll be seeing more of in the next several years

2016 Fiat 500X Trekking AWD – The Best Cinquecento Yet? – Sam’s Thoughts
Let’s face it, the re-entry of Fiat into the American marketplace in the wake of the Italian company’s post-bankruptcy absorption of Chrysler has not gone as well as CEO Sergio Marchionne had hoped. The diminutive 500 never reached the sales targets expected of it and the larger 500L MPV did even worse. We still have …

2016 Fiat 500X Trekking AWD – The Best Cinquecento Yet?

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2016 Fiat 500X - 1 of 27

Let’s face it, the re-entry of Fiat into the American marketplace in the wake of the Italian company’s post-bankruptcy absorption of Chrysler has not gone as well as CEO Sergio Marchionne had hoped. The diminutive 500 never reached the sales targets expected of it and the larger 500L MPV did even worse. We still have some months to wait before the Miata-derived 124 roadster hits the streets but there is one other Fiat entry that may yet have the potential to be a breakout hit, subcompact crossover 500X.

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