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We try out Cadillac Super Cruise
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Cadillac Super Cruise is basically very fancy cruise control, and it works well. We hopped behind the wheel of a Cadillac CT6 fitted with the tech, and put it to work. How’d it do? Click play and see for yourself! [Disclaimer: Cadillac tossed us the keys to its Super Cruise-equipped CT6 and included a tank…
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2020 Land Rover Defender – the chassis, engine, and driveline
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With the introduction of the 2020 Defender, Land Rover provided us with several cool infographics about its new rig. Usually manufacturer supplied material like this is kind of lame but this is an exception. Let’s take a look at the chassis, suspension, and the four wheel drive system of the new Defender. Like other large…
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Toyota’s new GA-B platform seems exclusively designed for hybrid vehicles
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The whole world right now is losing its mind over Electric Vehicles – EVs, as the abbreviators call them. Keyboard experts go on and on about range and recharge time at various voltages, battery capacity, system efficiency, and a whole of other stuff that no one was really teaching in Electrical Engineering classes two decades ago.…
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Watch me race in the Pro-Am Gran Turismo Championship
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The FIA-Certified Gran Turismo Championships is a professional eSports world championship tournament. It is played on the latest rendition of the Gran Turismo (GT) video game, Gran Turismo Sport. The championship was somewhat quietly launched in 2018 but has gathered quite the following from the GT faithful. Last weekend the 2019 world tour came to New York City. This…
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We chat with the creator of Gran Turismo, Kazunori Yamuchi and Scott Clark from Michelin
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The FIA-Certified Gran Turismo Championships took place this weekend in New York City. We will discuss this in more detail later on. This coincided with the Gran Turismo and Michelin announcement we mentioned earlier. The event also provided me with an opportunity to chat with Kazunori Yamauchi, the CEO of Polyphony Digital and producer of the now-iconic…
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Michelin and Gran Turismo partner up and it’s kind of a big deal
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The Gran Turismo videogame needs no introduction. It’s been around for over twenty years in various different formats. It went from being a car-modding game to driver educating simulator. It created the GT Academy which turned gamers into real world racers. In 2018 the FIA Gran Turismo Championship was created – an eSport racing series…
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I Replaced My Recalled Takata Airbag, You Should Too
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Any letter in the mail with “Saab” written as the return address will surely raise an eyebrow. Three will make you alert. This was the third “URGENT TAKATA AIRBAG SAFETY RECALL” notice bearing. Stubbornly rolling my eyes, I plugged in my 9-2x’s VIN on the NHTSA’s website to double-check. My car was in fact, stricken by…
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About that new turbocharged Wrangler engine…
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I used to own a TJ Wrangler with the 2.5-liter AMC four cylinder engine. It was a rather crappy engine, with all of 120hp on tap. On a good day, going downhill with tail wind, my soft-toped, 5-speed (3-speed automatic was optional!) Jeep could almost hit a speedo-indicated 75mph. The 4.0-liter in-line six was the…
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VR can help shape all aspects of automotive design
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While I love the romantic notion of a car designer hammering a piece of aluminum into shape, it’s an antiquated way to design a car. A more modern approach involves sketching, then clay models, and onto larger scale clay cars before a design is finalized. This can involve sending drawings or team members to locations…
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The connected car industry's dizzying number of players all in one chart
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This diagram, put together by ReadWrite Labs, shows all the various automotive software vying for a slice of the connected car market. The sheer numbers of systems shows the sort of gold rush that’s going on in this sector, and this doesn’t even include autonomous vehicle systems. I have to wonder how much proprietary stuff…
