Tesla’s Model 3 to make March debut
Elon Musk has announced that the eagerly anticipated Model 3 sedan will make its debut on 31 March. Finally!
Filipino auto market progresses sustainably with X-1R
The Filipino automotive industry was expected to do well last year, but official sales figure has exceeded estimates of 300,000 units, reaching an actual total of 321,532 vehicles sold. The Philippines is the rising star in the region’s auto market, which was dominated by Thailand until 2004 and then by Indonesia since 2010.
The Sport of the Future has arrived
Forget racing drones. Forget fighting drones. The sport of the future is here and it involves strapping yourself onto a snowboard and being dragged around by a drone. It is sort of like kite-surfing or wakeboarding, but with a…
Toyota Thinks SMALL
Toyota Motors is thinking small for the future. It is betting on small cars (besides personal mobility), and made a US$3.2 billion decision in that direction with the total buy-out of its subsidiary, Daihatsu. Toyota previously owned 51.2% of Daihatsu, producer of kei cars, which will be fully integrated into Toyota after the completion of shares transfer in August.
Great Scott! It’s a New Delorean!
The Delorean was not a good car. It was badly designed and built, and underpowered, and only about 9000 were ever made. Yet, it has become a cult classic, so much so that the current owner of the rights to the DeLorean Motor Company, DMC Texas, announced it will be producing new DeLorean DMC-12 vehicles for the market.
Natural Gas Leak adding to Global Warming
In a somewhat pastoral setting in southern California, an ecological disaster is going on largely unnoticed except, that is, for the owners of the houses which just a few short months ago would have sold for millions of dollars, but are now worthless.