AUTOS
– Volkswagen is expanding the availability of many of the latest high-tech safety systems to models throughout its lineup. Many were formerly the exclusive province of the Touareg, but now will be offered on the Golf, GTI, Beetle, Jetta, and CC. – Volkswagen’s Lane Assist provides a measure of active steering at speeds above 40 mph, provided it can see the lane markings. It’s available on the Golf, GTI, Golf
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– Woe to you o earth and sea, for the Dodge sends the Hellcat with wrath, because he knows the time is short. Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the Hellcat, for it is a Vehicle Identification Number. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six. For the well-heeled acolyte of the Beast, perhaps one of the few who wended his way through fake-out checkpoints to scope the
– For most people, a ’66 Dodge Dart is not what pops to mind when they think of a race car. But of the hundreds of thousands of mostly mundane Darts that plied the streets in the 1960s, this 1966 Dodge D/Dart is one of a tiny fraction that was built for track duty. – The D/Dart was a stripped-down version of the standard Dart GT, but Dodge took the
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– Emerging from an extremely brief shadow in the modern headlight technology wars, Audi has announced it will debut a concept car at this fall’s Frankfurt auto show featuring Matrix OLED headlights. After sparring with BMW over who’d be first to market with a laser headlight, Audi is moving to incorporate OLED (organic LED) lighting into its clever Matrix headlight technology, the one where a multitude of individual lights are
– Car television went plotz a few months ago with the sudden meltdown of Britain’s Top Gear. If only Jeremy Clarkson had first given a thought to old Woody Hayes or George S. Patton, two guys who accomplished a lot in life but are often remembered first (or second—certainly in the top five) for hitting an underling. You can scream and you can throw things, as Indiana’s Bobby Knight did,
Wanna see something cool? Head on over to this URL. Looks like a semi-broken Ford website, right? Go ahead and click through to the 2016 Ford Focus section—as of this writing, you can configure a 2016 Ford Focus RS on a website we’re pretty sure Ford didn’t want you to see. There you’ll find that the RS starts at $36,605 including destination and delivery fees. – First discovered by commenters at Jalopnik,
– You demanded it, folks. Okay, maybe not you, since your net worth is almost definitely somewhere south of a billion dollars, but at least some of the fantastically heeled buyers of Aston Martin’s wicked, track-focused Vulcan hypercar have asked the company to look into making the thing street-legal. – The report comes to us from Dutch website Autovisie via the newspaper De Telegraaf, with Vulcan project manager Simon Croft stating that, while some people have
