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Customizing cars is a lot of fun. Adding that little bit of personal flair can make something feel like your own. But some modifications can not only hamper the functionality of a car, but more critically, the safety. And the most dangerous are those that can interfere with your car's safety equipment. One that NHTSA is highlighting for the second time is the stick-on badges you can get to decorate your steering wheel.
Today Baidu launched at the company’s Apollo Day its sixth generation robotaxi which is now ready for deployment on the streets of Wuhan. What’s really eye catching about the announcement is how little the new RT6 costs. According to Baidu the invoice cost is just 204,600 yuan (28,350 USD) they even showed the Chinese fapiao at the launch to prove it. That comes in at less than recently launched cars such as the Xiaomi SU7 and IM L6 and is more than 50% less than the cost of the previous generation of robotaxi – RT6 stands for sixth generation robotaxi
The Kia EV6 has only been out for about two years, and it's still a solid EV. But unlike some EV manufacturers, Kia isn't content to let it go aeons without improvement. Instead, it's rolling out a facelift for the EV6 that improves its performance on all fronts, from range to safety, and refreshes its styling to match.
Lately I've been revisiting the PlayStation Portable's wonderful collection of racing games, and trust me—if you've been sleeping on the old handheld all these years, you shouldn't, because it has a library that very much holds up. For racing on the go, not even the Nintendo Switch compares. One title I've only recently explored is Codemasters' PSP port of Colin McRae Rally 2005, and it's astonishingly deep. It's revelatory having one of the finest rally games ever made in the palm of your hand. And yet, it has a debilitating bug that ruins everything. Allow me to explain.
IndyCar confirmed that Honda and Chevrolet will roll out their new hybrid engines on July 5, concluding a journey that began five years ago with an announcement at the 2019 Indy 500—or what feels like 27 years ago thanks to COVID.
The 2024 Volkswagen ID.4 has a column shifter. But it isn’t like most column shifters where you pull down for drive and push up for reverse. Instead, you twist away from you for drive, towards you for reverse, and push a small button on the end to engage park. It’s not bad per se, just different—but unfortunately, the ID.4’s controls and interfaces only get worse from there.
Owners of certain Ford Maverick, Escape PHEV, and Lincoln Corsair hybrid models should keep an eye on the mailbox. The automaker is notifying owners that their vehicle might unexpectedly shift into neutral on its own while driving.
The Korean-market EV6 is out bearing the sheen of revisions suspected from the teaser shots. As usual for these lifecycle updates, the new front fascia makes the largest impression. Out go the standard headlights, in comes «Star Map» lighting making a polygonal pattern around the redrawn front bumper and adding an illuminated crossbar. Smaller changes out back see complementary lighting used on the full-width light bar, and new mock diffuser shapes to distinguish the GT-Line from lower trims. New geometric wheels in black and silver for that market, sized 19 or 20 inches, bring the EV6 closer to the look of Kia's growing range of new electric vehicles.