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Heavy EVs Could Collapse Old Parking Garages: Report

Heavy EVs Could Collapse Old Parking Garages: Report

News → Car Tech → Electric Vehicles Cars keep getting heavier, and experts are worried that aging parking garages simply weren’t built to cope. byLewin Day| PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2023 8:00 PM EDT Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK, Electric car battery charging station in an underground car park. (Photo by: Peter Titmuss/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty […]

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What Happened to Lincoln?

What Happened to Lincoln?

Features Ford’s luxury brand feels lost in the wilderness right now with sales near record lows. How did we get here? Genesis, Cadillac, Lexus. They’re all luxury brands under a larger automaker’s umbrella that offer fresh new cars and at least one fully-electric vehicle. And then there’s Ford’s luxury marque Lincoln, which is basically absent

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World’s Smallest Working Lego V8 Sounds Like the Real Thing

World’s Smallest Working Lego V8 Sounds Like the Real Thing

News → Watch This Video It sort of looks like a Ford 5.0-liter Coyote if you squint. ShaunSchafGames43 via YouTube Lego engines powered by compressed air are always a sight to behold, but sometimes they can be cumbersome contraptions that are too complicated for their own good. This tiny plastic eight-cylinder isn’t like that, however.

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Japanese Rail Workers Build Adorable Track Underpasses for Turtles

Japanese Rail Workers Build Adorable Track Underpasses for Turtles

News Not only do these tunnels save turtles’ lives, they prevent train disruptions. Turtles near Japan’s Nara Prefecture now have safe passage across the local train tracks. Despite being small and adorable, the little turtles sometimes get caught in the switch rail mechanism—which switches the direction of the tracks—and they get crushed. When that happens,

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Mercedes AMG One Only 19 Seconds Slower Than 2022 F1 Lap at Monza

Mercedes AMG One Only 19 Seconds Slower Than 2022 F1 Lap at Monza

News → News by Brand → Mercedes-Benz News It also broke the Porsche 911 GT3 RS’s production car lap record by 11 seconds. The Mercedes-AMG One reportedly just broke the production car lap record at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, the famous Italian Formula 1 track. That isn’t all that exciting by itself, as production car lap records

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Start Your Wrenching Career With Deals on Home Mechanic Sets

Start Your Wrenching Career With Deals on Home Mechanic Sets

The Garage → Tools Whether you’re ready to start your own oil changes or a whole engine rebuild, we’ve found discounted mechanic tool kits for you. Amazon Almost no mechanic starts with a whole shop at their disposal. Most of us begin with as complete a tool set as we can afford, with ratchets, sockets,

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2024 Lexus LC 500 Ditches its Frustrating Trackpad, Gains Ultimate Edition

2024 Lexus LC 500 Ditches its Frustrating Trackpad, Gains Ultimate Edition

News → News by Brand → Lexus News Lexus’s infamous trackpad burdens the LC 500 no longer and is replaced by a 12.3 inch touchscreen. Later this year, the 2024 Lexus LC 500 will fix its biggest issue—its much-maligned infotainment trackpad. Lexus has been slowly transitioning away from its trackpad system for the past few

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Strict EPA Rules for 2027–2032 Vehicles Are Expected This Week

Strict EPA Rules for 2027–2032 Vehicles Are Expected This Week

The EPA regulates and lowers the quantity of emissions that can spew from the transportation network—in effect, raising fuel economy requirements—and the next stage will be announced Wednesday, according to insiders. The new rules will affect model year 2027 through 2032 vehicles and do not ban internal-combustion engines or force EV purchases. Similar fuel-economy regulations

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The Next Alfa Romeo Stelvio Will Be Electric and Come in 2026: Report

The Next Alfa Romeo Stelvio Will Be Electric and Come in 2026: Report

News → News by Brand → Alfa Romeo News Alfa Romeo’s electric future is coming soon, with nearly all of its current lineup looking to be electric within the next few years. Alfa Romeo According to a report from Autocar with Alfa Romeo CEO Jean-Phillipe Imparato, the next electric Stelvio will arrive shortly after the

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Curly Fries: Honda Filed a Patent for a Spiral Exhaust

Curly Fries: Honda Filed a Patent for a Spiral Exhaust

News → News by Brand → Honda News In pursuit of extra efficiency, Honda wants to make its proposed spiral exhaust pull double-duty as a splash shield. Honda Automakers are in constant pursuit of efficiency. Not just fuel economy, but efficiency in parts, costs, materials, and finding as many possible purposes for one single part.

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