Renault KWID Climber and Racer Unveiled At New Delhi Auto Show

Posted on Nov 24, 2020 in Concept | Comments Off on Renault KWID Climber and Racer Unveiled At New Delhi Auto Show

They are concept-cars and they look aggressive, each one in its own way. Both of them are based on the bestseller Renault KWID. With KWID, the French car maker surpassed all their own expectations: they managed to sell over 9,000 units in 4 months only in India. It looks like Fiat Panda’s recipe had been adopted by Renault: let’s remember the Sporting and...

Personal Vendetta: Red Light Cameras

Posted on Nov 14, 2020 in Safety | 1 comment

I never thought it would happen to me. I’ve seen the bright flashes of light when people run red lights and chuckled to myself as I silently mocked them for being dumb enough to run a red light at an intersection monitored by cameras. I never saw the flash. Other schmucks run red lights. Not me. How hard is it to stop when the light turns red at an intersection...

Cars Coming Soon: Audi A4 Allroad and a $100,000 Ford Focus

Posted on Nov 14, 2020 in Racing | 3 comments

A Focus by any other name is still a Focus. Right? We see them every day in shopping-mall parking lots across America. We rent them during trips to Dallas. We see them advertised by dealers for low, low monthly payments. We have friends who drive a Focus. We’ve considered buying a Focus. But a Focus for almost $100,000? That’s just crazy talk. Or is it the...

Starting Small: 1971 Honda Z600 Coupe and N600 Sedan brochure

Posted on Nov 8, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments

Everybody has to start somewhere. And although the Honda Motor Company‘s first four-wheeled products were the brilliantly designed S(port)500/S600/S800 roadsters of the mid-1960s, American buyers weren’t able to purchase those through official channels. The first Honda cars that we could—and did—buy in those pre-Civic days were the Z600 Coupe and S600 Sedan,...

How Many Human-driven Years Remain?

Posted on Nov 1, 2020 in Editorials | 1 comment

Autonomous vehicles and shared mobility are invoked in our contemporary discourse as an inevitable fate. There is an unsettling undercurrent rippling around a not altogether desirable future for the automobile as we know it. I am not anti-progress, anti-technology, or otherwise prone to romanticizing yesteryear. I welcome the convenience and safety of new...