You don’t need an AWD with 1000hp under the bonnet to create an awesome gymkhana video. This Skoda 130, produced by the Czechoslovakian car manufacturer AZNP in the eighties as a family car, will do just as well. This video is pure adrenaline, amassing more than 370,000+ views in the past week.
Shareholders are not the only ones displeased with the US$10 billion land deal that Hyundai has recently successfully bid for; the South Korean automaker’s 40,000 labour union workers have extended the partial strike over wage disagreements after news of the exorbitant bid hit the headlines.
Following the announcement that Nevada has emerged as the chosen location for the Tesla Gigafactory and with its CEO, Elon Musk, mentioning that there is a possibility of a Tesla factory being set up in China itself, Foxconn has announced that it will be building a battery factory as well.
Recently, a happy motorist from Australia wrote to us about how he significantly improved the fuel economy of his Mercedes-Benz; and now he actually gets better fuel economy than what the manufacturer claims he can…an unusual occurrence, as our staff writer, LING, found out when she researched the subject.
In scenes reminiscent of a Hollywood blockbuster starring the likes of Will Smith, Mercedes-Benz has been showcasing their version of the future of road transportation with the Mercedes-Benz Future Truck, which they believe will be on sale and on the roads of Europe in less than ten years’ time.
Rain at the Jacksonville North Carolina racetrack postponed the Coastal Carolina 200 race for a day, but when Sunday afternoon came, Caleb Holman picked up the MAHLE Pole Award in qualifying and then led throughout the entire race to what was an easy victory, his fourth of the 2014 X-1R Pro Cup season.