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Toyota isn't looking to buy just Google's legged-robot R&D firm Boston Dynamics. The automaker also has its eye on another company under the Alphabet X nee Google X umbrella. That, Volkswagen wants its own "Gigafactory", and ACEA releases its 2016-2017 Automobile Industry Pocket Guide for your to nerd out on … after the break. Toyota thinks four legs […]
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The history of the city of Wolfsburg, Saxony, in Germany is inseparable from that of Volkswagen. The municipality was established originally in 1938 as Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben. It was intended as a model town based around the factory the Nazis built to make Dr. Porsche's KdF-Wagen, what became the Type I Volkswagen, or Beetle. To […]
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Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk plans to turn off the free electricity taps at his company's Supercharger stations for owners of the upcoming Model 3. Musk made the announcement last night during a question and answer session at the company's annual shareholders meeting. Paying to use the Tesla-financed recharging network isn't something the roughly […]
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I hate it when people get ripped off. And judging by your reaction to Bark's piece last week about a dealer in Florida, you hate it too. The latest con job to be posted to the Interwebs involves someone who's no stranger to crime: John Hennessey. The Texas-based tuner of extraordinary supercars, Hennessey Performance Engineering, […]
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Joe writes: Can you explain black plastic on cars? I saw an Audi Q7 with black plastic all over the bottom, but then a Q5 doesn't have it. Sometimes the plastic isn't black but color coded like an Eddie Bauer Ford or something else. I may just want some back story or history lesson or […]
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It's common for younger and more progressive members of the B&B to lambaste me as a sort of grunting throwback to a past that never truly existed, a Triceratops grazing contentedly through a field of single mothers, pernambuco-necked guitars, and filets mignon while the participation-trophy-shaped asteroid of genderless, sexless, non-meritocratic, feelings-centric, pansy-assed Millennial culture streaks […]
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