Modern transponder-equipped car keys are supposed to be ultrasafe: The chip-keys and key fobs communicate with readers inside the car, allowing the car to start only once a secret digital password has been transmitted. But a team of security researchers says they’ve figured out a way to circumvent the system used by some of the world’s largest automakers—and that Volkswagen Group used a lawsuit to keep their findings from going
-Mercedes-Benz currently builds almost as many models off the basic E-class platform as General Mills has flavors of Cheerios. Whole grains processed into toroid toddler kibble can be had in 15 varieties at last count. Count up the sedan, wagon, cabriolet, and coupe bodies; tally engines with four-, six-, and eight cylinders; and then stir in high-performance AMG editions, and we count 14 E-class models for 2015 without even stretching
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-Driving on the beach is something of an American tradition. The sprawling sands of the Pacific Northwest served as the area’s coastal highways before roads were built, and stock car races used to buzz Florida’s shores from Daytona Beach to New Smyrna Beach. Even now many beaches across the country still allow driving, both seasonally and year round, giving those with 4×4 capabilities an unconventional alternative to the usual Sunday drive. To inspire
-The new Mercedes-AMG C63 coupe looks angry. From the voracious air intakes to the frowning hood and from the superwide fenders to the rear diffuser, its looks convey a sense of barely concealed aggression. And we’re not surprised: This is an automobile that will be forced to spend a large portion of its life traveling roads with speed limits, driven at a fraction of its capabilities. Talk about a tortured
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“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”-— Jack Kerouac, On The Road – While the automobile may have spent the better part of the last century as an avatar for hope and a better tomorrow, it’s the road trip that serves as the catalyst for adventure and freedom. Back in 1915, nobody knew this better than a then 21-year-old Edsel Ford, who, along with a group of like-minded young men,
The genius of Mad Max: Fury Road is that it never loses sight of the renegade spirit that made the first installment of the Mad Max saga such a revelatory work when it debuted in 1979. Working with that same philosophy and distilling it even further, filmmaker Devin Graham, a.k.a. Devin Super Tramp, and his team of assistants have produced a remake of Fury Road’s climatic chase scene, replacing the
By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will resign on Thursday to pave the way for early elections on Sept. 20, government officials said, hoping to quell a rebellion in his leftist Syriza party and seal support for a bailout program. Tsipras’s decision to return to the ballot box after seven bruising months in power deepens political uncertainty on the very day Greece began receiving funds
By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea fired tens of artillery rounds toward North Korea on Thursday after the North launched shells to protest South Korea’s anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts along the border, as tension escalated on the peninsula. North Korea did not return fire but later warned Seoul in a letter that it would take military action if the South did not stop the loudspeaker broadcasts