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PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — For nearly a week in the extreme cold of January 2024, frigid temperatures from Chicago to northern Texas have made life painful for electric-vehicle owners, with reduced driving range and hours of waiting at charging stations.
The Honda logo is undergoing significant changes for the first time since 1981. As part of the reveal of its new Series Zero EV models at CES, Honda showed off a new «H mark» that features a simplified shape and a more modern appearance. The company says the logo is meant specifically to show its commitment to EVs, and said that it will first appear on «next-generation EVs,» including the production versions of these Series Zero vehicles scheduled to arrive in 2026. The new logo does away with the squircle-shaped surround for the H, meaning it's far simpler in execution than the badge we've been seeing on Honda models for some time now. The H itself is also wider and more sharply angled, which Honda says is meant to resemble two outstretched hands. It seems that we'll
Porsche is pushing its electric sports sedan, the Taycan, to ever-higher levels of performance. The automaker has just confirmed the latest new performance variant, which we expect to carry the Turbo GT moniker, in an announcement about a Taycan prototype that smashed the previous lap record set by the Taycan Turbo S at the Nürburgring racetrack in Germany. The Turbo S is currently the most powerful version of the Taycan, with 750 horsepower from dual electric motors. This new model looks to go a step further, with its most obvious tweaks visible on the prototype being the addition of a large rear wing, a body kit, and what look to be more aggressive wheels and tires. This all helped the Taycan set a new lap time of 7:07.55 around the 'Ring, a 26 second improvement over the Turb
Volvo's next electric vehicle will be a mid-size luxury sedan meant to replace the S90, much as the EX90 launched as an electric equivalent to the XC90. According to Swedish publication Teknikens Värld, this four-door will be called the ES90 and will use the same platform as the EX90, along with its battery pack and other powertrain components. Leaked documents from China reportedly revealed the ES90's size as well, with a length that places it between the discontinued short-wheelbase version of the S90 and the long-wheelbase model that's sold in the U.S. today. Its wheelbase is far longer, though, suggesting that it will have shorter overhangs and quite different proportions.
Pizza as a foodstuff dates back to something like the sixth century B.C., and it is today a nearly $50 billion industry in the United States. But the apogee of pizza technology came in the 1980s, when megachain Domino's Pizza created the 30 Minutes or It's Free guarantee and then set about marketing that promise. That effort produced the bizarre, rabbit-suited «Noid» character and an odd ad campaign called «Avoid the Noid.» The car we nearly got out of Domino's campaign was even weirder. One of those pizza delivery vehicles has surfaced on Bring a Trailer—which, like Car and Driver, is part of Hearst Autos. It's called the Tritan A2, and at the time it was a low-drag, ultra-efficient moonshot at avoiding the Noid. Ten were built, several are lost, so this is a very rare machine. The Tritan was the brainchild of father-and-son inventors James and Douglas Amick, the latter trai
Residents in Ann Arbor, Michigan received an unexpected light show Saturday night courtesy of a 12-year-old boy. The juvenile reportedly stole a forklift from a construction site and led police on a meandering, slow-speed chase through city streets before exiting town. Fortunately, there were no injuries resulting from this melee, but numerous cars were damaged, including a minivan that was shoved into someone's front yard.
A joyride lasting over an hour in a stolen construction vehicle ended with a 12-year-old boy in custody over the weekend. It was all caught on camera.
To many motorists across America, turning right on a red light is business as usual. But, according to the Associated Press, this may soon end.