– You meet people on the Mille Miglia, amid the entrants chowing down on seconds of fennel pesto pasta, the children in tiny little villages begging for burnouts, and pretty underwear models like David Gandy preening in million-dollar roadsters. Jaguar chief designer Ian Callum, part of Jaguar’s nine-car factory heritage team, is not an English underwear model. He’s a Scot whose pen strokes—the F-type, XJ, and all modern Jags since
The redesigned 2016 Mazda 2 won’t be coming to the U.S. after all, despite being built just south of the border at a new factory in Mexico. According to a report in Automotive News, Mazda’s U.S. brass has decided that subcompact just isn’t profitable enough to bother with in a country where gas is cheap and everybody wants a crossover anyway. – Mazda sold 13,615 copies of the 2 in 2014,
We’re getting closer to a world where in-dash touchscreens aren’t infuriating, slow, backwards pieces of e-trash: Hyundai says its 2015 Sonata will be the first car to hit the market with Android Auto, Google’s smartphone-powered software that brings Android’s quick, intuitive layout to your car’s navigation and infotainment system. – Owners of model-year 2015 Sonatas will be able to plug their Android-powered smartphones (running the latest 5.0 “Lollipop” version of
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– The HR-V draws deeply on past and present. In many ways, it’s a throwback to the best things 20th-century Honda ever did, such as elegant interiors, sweet suspension tuning, and well-considered details. And then it goes all Kendrick-Lamar-pimpin’-butterflies for its powertrain, electronics, even its very concept: This Honda is merely the latest to join the growing ranks of 21st-century micro-utes. READ MORE ›› –
