Author: Stephen Williams
The Costco Auto Program’s come-on is enticing: “Automobile buying made easy!” Who amongst us wouldn’t respond positively to such an proposition? Since 1989, Costco, the wholesale retail giant, has been offering its members special pricing deals on latest and used vehicles through its Costco Auto Program. The corporate says buyers typically save $1,000 by benefiting from this service (an annual Costco membership is $60). There are pros and cons to using this method, and prospective buyers should be aware that Costco doesn’t run it as a charity: it really works with “chosen” dealers to whom the purchasers are referred; the…
Road rage can endanger drivers and their passengers, raise their blood pressure and their insurance costs — and, in greater than a couple of cases, kill them. Such are the sobering findings of a detailed survey conducted by the Insurify group, who say that drivers who’re cut off by one other automobile are almost definitely to react angrily on the road. These “offended” behaviors or reactions may include honking, cursing, blocking the offending driver from changing lanes, or in rare cases, confronting one other driver or forcing her or him off the road. And these confrontations stands out as the…
The list of World Automobile Awards has been whittled right down to 10 finalists, but just one American brand — Ford — appears among the many remaining nine carmakers for this 12 months’s top award. The Bronco is there, and it is also balloted as a finalist within the design category. The opposite categories are performance automobile, urban automobile, electric vehicle and luxury model. Each category has five finalists except World Automobile, which has 10. One brand conspicuous by its absence in any category: Tesla. The winner in each is scheduled to be crowned March 27 on the Latest York…
Obviously, the query all of us asked concerning the life-sized tire art sculptures that showed up at Friday’s Ohio State-Missouri football game was … why? Because they’re product of Goodyear tires, which sponsored the 88th Goodyear Cotton Bowl contest. Second obvious query: Just how long did it take to create these seven-feet-tall, tire-fabricated mascots that weigh greater than 180 kilos each? Glad we asked: Blake McFarland, Goodyear’s commissioned “tire artist” and former minor league baseball player, devoted 392 hours over 19 days to handcraft these one-of-a-kind things from greater than 280 Goodyear-branded tires and 24,000 hidden staples. Goodyear didn’t indicate…
The hip color for 2024 — at Mercedes-Benz, no less than — is turquoise. Turquoise is, in actual fact, more that only a cool shade of blue-green within the Germans’ palate: Turquoise coloured marker lights within the brand’s EQS sedan and S-class will indicate that the cars are moving autonomously. This can occur in California and Nevada. Those states are the primary within the U.S. to approve Mercedes’s SAE Level 3 self-driving system technology, dubbed Drive Pilot, to be used on public roads. This system, running as a test for 2 years, will debut in California with series production models…
Do Martians like pizza? In fact, that’s a wildly presumptive query. But assuming that there are Martians, Domino’s is halfway prepared. Consider its 1985 Tritan A2 pizza delivery vehicle, built almost 40 years ago on the behest of Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It didn’t fly, nevertheless it definitely looked like some NASA engineers is likely to be enticed to retrofit one. Only 10 were commissioned by Monaghan, and all were customized with warming ovens within the rear. Now considered one of the few surviving A2s — the oven’s been removed — is being offered on the…
The primary paragraph of Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included” buyer’s guide about automobile privacy issues is price repeating here: “Ah, the wind in your hair, the open road ahead, and never a care on this planet … except all of the trackers, cameras, microphones, and sensors capturing your every move. Ugh. Modern cars are a privacy nightmare.” “Ugh” could also be an understatement. The crux of the matter is control: The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation has found that vehicle manufacturers have collected tons of “private” data from vehicle operators, because of the proliferation of sensors and cameras and smartphones connected in and…
