Tesla scouting sites in Germany for possible factory FRANKFURT — Electric carmaker Tesla is scouting out locations for a possible factory in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany’s most populous state, daily Rheinische Post reported on Sunday,…
Add 2020 Porsche 911 to list of engines with underrated output Motor Trend took a 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S to a local dyno, and made what is becoming a not-so-unusual discovery: Porsche’s mid-tier sports car hides behind underrated…
Unrestrained pets in the car are extremely distracting to drivers Volvo and Harris Poll recently conducted a study that concluded that unrestrained pets in your car, particularly dogs, can be extremely distracting. That may sound pretty obvious, but what isn’t…
Symptoms of a bad or failing serpentine/drive belt The serpentine belt, also known as the drive belt, is a belt on a car engine that works with the idler, tensioner, and pulleys inside the accessory drive belt system. It…
Act fast to watch first three Fast and Furious movies on Netflix Consider this a PSA: Netflix currently has the first three movies in the Fast & Furious franchise in rotation, but Car and Driver reports that ends in…
How tariffs in China could cause a meltdown in the American South While BMW is clearly a German company, the crossovers that are exceedingly important to it are actually made in Spartanburg, South Carolina. And more than that, the…
Junkyard Gem: 1985 Dodge 600 ES Turbo convertible With Lee Iacocca firmly at the helm, the Chrysler Corporation in the middle 1980s had bounced back from what looked like certain doom in 1979, mostly due to the huge success…
Off-road racing games make a muddy splash at Gamescom Need for Speed Heat may have received most of the attention at this year’s Gamescom convention in Germany, but it certainly wasn’t the only driving game on display. Two others…
GMC rules out subcompact crossover to go premium, focus on trucks Don’t wait for GMC’s on-again, off-again baby crossover any longer. The company confirmed it has no plans to enter the growing car-based subcompact crossover segment in the near…
C8 Chevy Corvette Z06 rumored to get 800 hp and 700 lb-ft or more Automobile has squeezed a few more rumors out of its news press, this time concerning the C8 Chevrolet Corvette. The whispers allege that sometime around…
