A new longer trailer for the upcoming new Top Gear series has been launched and frankly it does appear to be all that we have come to expect from the show, with the new cast hooning about in high performance cars and old junkers alike, in locations as diverse as the South of Fance and California to the M5 near Manchester on a decidedly rainy day.
It hasn’t been launched yet but there are already 400,000 pre-orders for the Tesla Model 3. At last month’s unveiling of the Model 3 by its proud father, Elon Musk, the performance figures in terms of speed – if not distance – were already pretty darn good. But now, via Twitter, Musk has confirmed that the upcoming Model 3 will also have the aptly named ‘Ludicrous Mode’ – as in Ludicrously Quick.
Let’s face it – most of us tend to become Luddites as we age, and the younger generations are generally more ready to trust and adopt new technologies. So, it’s no surprise to us that a recent study by JD Power found that while more than half of younger drivers would trust self-driving cars, only less than a quarter of Baby Boomers and even fewer Pre-Boomers do.
We write about the X-1R Engine Treatment quite often and so, get a lot of questions about it. Here’s a bunch of frequently asked questions that would make your (and our) life much easier, and your car much smoother!
Even as the car industry plunges headlong into the realm of Connected Cars, giving the operator of such vehicles the ability to enjoy the entirety of the internet whilst on the move, there is a growing movement to create a device to determine whether any driver in an accident was distracted by online activities, particularly texting, at the time of the incident.
China is the youngest major car market in the world and whilst you may be forgiven for thinking that it is still a largely underdeveloped market, the country has the youngest luxury saloon buyers in the world and nothing seems to be able to satisfy their appetite for tech-laden vehicles. But with the communist regime’s desire to restrict what is available on the internet, international automakers are being driven into the arms of mainland Chinese internet giants.