Weekend News Roundup October 19, 2024

Weekend News Roundup October 19, 2024

Police in California are experiencing what happens when good intentions crash into reality. Police departments are transitioning to battery powered vehicles but those vehicles come with challenges that make cops’ jobs more difficult. – Erin Marquis Read More Read more… Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the … Read more

VinFast Has Fewer Than 200 Cars For Sale In The U.S.

VinFast Has Fewer Than 200 Cars For Sale In The U.S.

Remember when some Wall Street bozos thought VinFast, maker of one of the worst-reviewed cars, was worth more than America’s Big Three automakers combined? It wasn’t all that long ago and the brand had some pretty lofty goals for selling in the American market. Let’s see how things are progressing. The 2024 Volkswagen Passat Shows … Read more

General Motors recalls nearly 450,000 vehicles over issues with low brake fluid warning

General Motors recalls nearly 450,000 vehicles over issues with low brake fluid warning

General Motors is recalling more than 449,000 of its SUVs and pickup trucks because the electronic brake control module software may fail to display a warning light when a loss of brake fluid takes place. There are 38,382 Canadian vehicles affected by the recall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday that the recall … Read more

Electric Mopar muscle, stinky Tesla cabins, and a pricey pickup

Electric Mopar muscle, stinky Tesla cabins, and a pricey pickup

On today’s episode of Quick Charge, we talk about legacy performance nameplates turning to battery power, the value of Tesla Autopilot data, and whether or not a $96,000 Chevy Silverado makes any sense at all, to anyone, for any reason. Plus, we check out latest high-performance Volkswagen’s ID.3 and ponder its place in the GTi’s … Read more

Cheap Dodge Viper, Broke Rivian Truck And A ‘Nice’ Corvette Race Car In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup

Cheap Dodge Viper, Broke Rivian Truck And A ‘Nice’ Corvette Race Car In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup

Image: Lamborghini Collector vehicle insurance giants Hagerty put out its quarterly list of winners and losers in the market, and some of the cars, trucks and SUVs on these lists just might surprise you. This is by no means investment advice, and it’s silly to expect any particular vehicle market to behave rationally, but maybe … Read more

Weekend News Roundup July 27, 2024

Weekend News Roundup July 27, 2024

The Tesla Cybertruck sucks. It’s been a reliability disaster, can’t even survive a simple car wash, is incredibly difficult to repair, has edges that are so sharpowners have ended up in the hospital from their injuries, and it looks like it was designed in a lab to crush pedestrians. It also hasn’t been crash-tested… Read … Read more

Car Dealers And Supreme Court Justices Behaving Badly In This Week's News Roundup

Car Dealers And Supreme Court Justices Behaving Badly In This Week's News Roundup

Trucks have replaced sedans and wagons as the everyday driver from thirty years ago, that’s just a fact. Remember when your friend’s mom in high school had a wagon with seats in “the way back” that folded out of the floor? What’s old is new again. Ram filed a patent for a third row of … Read more

These Are The Worst Car Ads Of All Time

These Are The Worst Car Ads Of All Time

Remember when Lexus had artificial intelligence write an entire car commercial for them, and it was exactly as boring as everyone thought it would be? This wasn’t during the recent (ridiculous) AI explosion, either, it was all the way back in 2018, using IBM’s Watson. This is a great example of a bad ad, and … Read more