Car Theft In Downtown LA Is Up 300 Percent Over Ten Years

Car Theft In Downtown LA Is Up 300 Percent Over Ten Years

Downtown Los Angeles experienced the highest spike in vehicle theft over the past ten years in comparison to all other bureaus of the city, up more than 300 percent when compared to 2013. Obviously a lot has happened over the last 10 years, including that whole global pandemic that thrust millions into instability, and vehicle … Read more

Junkyard Gem: 1978 Fiat X1/9

Junkyard Gem: 1978 Fiat X1/9

Fiat did pretty well selling cars in the United States during the 1970s, especially after the 1973 Oil Crisis made fuel economy a very persuasive selling point. While sales of the larger 131/Brava and weird-looking Strada never amounted to much here, 128s, 124 Sport Spiders and X1/9s were all over American roads during the Malaise … Read more

XPENG Unleashes G6 Coupe SUV for Mainstream Market

XPENG Unleashes G6 Coupe SUV for Mainstream Market

China electric vehicle maker XPENG Motors has announced its new G6 coupe SUV — featuring an NVIDIA-powered intelligent advanced driver assistance system — is now available to the China market. The G6 is XPENG’s first model featuring the company’s proprietary Smart Electric Platform Architecture (SEPA) 2.0, which aims to reduce development and manufacturing costs and … Read more

Why Ford should double down on hybrids as it backs off EVs

Why Ford should double down on hybrids as it backs off EVs

Ford Motor ‘s decision to cut production of its electric pick-up allows the automaker to refocus its strategy around its highly profitable hybrid vehicles, which in turn should boost its underperforming stock. Ford said Monday it’s cutting in half planned production of its all-electric F-150 Lightning pick-up truck next year due to moderating consumer demand. … Read more

Quality Control on Car and Bike Wheel Rims from Friday

Quality Control on Car and Bike Wheel Rims from Friday

The centre will curb the import of substandard car and bike wheels come Friday as it implements the quality control order for automobile rims. The move comes with riders as some manufacturers are being allowed to import limited quantities of non-Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) compliant wheel rims after the latest amendment to the quality … Read more

Ken Block’s Absurd 650-HP Tank Track Raptor Can Be Yours

Ken Block’s Absurd 650-HP Tank Track Raptor Can Be Yours

If you’re going to be tailgating during a backcountry deep pow snowboard sesh, you want Ken Block’s RaptorTRAX there providing support. This is the machine you use to drive snowboarders to the top of a mountain that doesn’t have a chairlift. The riders don’t even have to bring their wet snowy selves into the cab, … Read more

DeLorean designer Giorgetto Giugiaro calls Tesla Cybertruck the ‘Picasso of automobiles’

DeLorean designer Giorgetto Giugiaro calls Tesla Cybertruck the ‘Picasso of automobiles’

Tesla’s Cybertruck (top) and the DeLorean DMC-12 (bottom) Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images; Timothy Norris via Getty Images Giorgetto Giugiaro designed the iconic DeLorean, made famous by the “Back to the Future” films.  The Italian design legend says Tesla’s Cybertruck is the “the Picasso of automobiles.” The DeLorean was one of the vehicles which inspired the … Read more

DENZA Collaborates With WPP to Build and Deploy Advanced Car Configurators on NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud

DENZA Collaborates With WPP to Build and Deploy Advanced Car Configurators on NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud

DENZA, the luxury EV brand joint venture between BYD and Mercedes-Benz, has collaborated with marketing and communications giant WPP and NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud to build and deploy its next generation of car configurators, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced at SIGGRAPH. WPP is using Omniverse Cloud — a platform for developing, deploying and managing … Read more

GM’s Cruise dismisses nine key leaders amid safety probe

GM’s Cruise dismisses nine key leaders amid safety probe

A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors, is seen outside the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. Heather Somerville | Reuters General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has dismissed nine “key leaders” amid ongoing safety investigations sparked by an October accident in San Francisco, according to an internal message obtained by CNBC. The … Read more

auto component industry: Auto parts sales rise 6.5% in H1 as buyers turn to feature-rich vehicles

auto component industry: Auto parts sales rise 6.5% in H1 as buyers turn to feature-rich vehicles

Indians’ love for larger, feature-rich vehicles, coupled with a concerted push to deepen local content, is turning into a boon for auto parts makers with domestic component sales rising 6.5%, on a high base, to a whopping $36.1 billion in the first half of this financial year. The shift in consumer preference is driving up … Read more