Becky Hammon already made history when she became the first female head coach in NBA summer league. Leading the San Antonio Spurs to the Las Vegas Summer League championship just made the experience that much sweeter. Hammon coached the Spurs to a 93-90 victory over the Phoenix Suns in the title game on Monday night.
– After a long, multi-year (and multi-concept-car) gestation, Infiniti’s all-new compact Q30 hatchback has finally been revealed. Scheduled to fully debut at the 2015 Frankfurt auto show this fall—so far Infiniti has only released the photo above—the Q30 marks Infiniti’s first foray into the “premium-compact-car” field since the G20. Don’t remember the G20? It vaguely resembled a Tehran taxi, but was somehow even less interesting to look at. Hence why
– The luxury full-size pickup market seems to have no upper limit, so we are utterly unsurprised to hear that Ford is bringing the top-shelf Limited grade back to the F-150 range for 2016. – Positioned above the Platinum and King Ranch models in the F-150 model hierarchy, the F-150 Limited features all kinds of stuff you won’t want to get dirty. There’s a “satin-chrome” finish on the grille, door
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– The rear of the prototype vehicle we were riding in was still disguised, but that’s not the reason it received an unusual amount of attention from bystanders—it was the car’s proportions. Indeed, the new generation of Mercedes-Benz’s two-door C-class, which will make its first public appearance at the Frankfurt auto show this September, is classically beautiful, unlike its predecessor, which some of us think resembled Daimler’s interpretation of a
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– Tougher federal fuel-economy standards are coming to heavy-duty pickups, full-size vans, and other large rigs, bringing with them big changes to the nation’s truck fleet. The new proposed standards—which are not yet set into law—call for big vans and medium-/heavy-duty pickups to slash their fuel consumption by a third between now and 2027. We plowed through the EPA’s 1329 pages of documents to get a picture of the greener, higher-tech
-Koenigsegg’s outrageous One:1 just keeps running wild on unsuspecting pavement. First, we watched it blast to 220 mph at a supercar meetup in England. Then, we saw it tearing up Suzuka Circuit. Then we got to ride shotgun as it thundered up the hill at Goodwood. And then we watched as it obliterated the 0-300km/h-0 world record, from two perspectives. – The jaw-dropping hypercar’s tour of dominance continues: Koenigsegg says
– A few weeks ago, we brought you the sad news that Mazda has no need for a “Speed” version of its new Miata. (Cue sad horns). All is not lost, however: If what Fiat COO Alfredo Altavilla said to AutoExpress is true, the Italian version, the Fiat 124 Spider expected to make its debut later this year (and rendered above), appears poised to be offered in a more, um,
Yahoo Politics looks at what’s behind the launch of the 16th GOP presidential primary campaign.
