Automobile dealers using demonstration vehicles or demo cars for promoting sales can claim input tax credit (ITC) under the GST law, the CBIC has said. However, no ITC would be available if demo cars are used by dealers for their own purpose during the course of the business. In a circular, the Central Board of … Read more
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has been slamming cars into barriers in the name of science for nearly 30 years, and modern cars are much safer thanks to its efforts. I have been watching IIHS crash test videos on YouTube since I was a little kid, and before you ask, yes, my parents … Read more
“Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built” is a sentence that most racing fans have heard at least once during their lives. It is usually evoked to illustrate humanity’s innate competitiveness and how racing was a natural use for automobiles. The quote is widely attributed to Henry Ford, except there is … Read more
Photo: Liberty Walk Japanese tuner Liberty Walk made waves at the Tokyo Auto Salon last year when it showed off a Ferrari F40 that had been slammed, chopped up and fitted with a widebody kit and other extreme styling modifications. Ferrari was apparently so mad that it removed that F40 from its official registry. Liberty … Read more
This one is so weird even I can’t really do it justice, so here’s the museum’s explanation of what it is to do the job for me: Charles Deutsch and René Bonnet (DB) were important names in French motor racing between 1940 and 1960. Together they embarked on designing competition cars, first with Citroën engines, … Read more
On a cold, blustery Friday in Detroit, members of the Explorer’s Club Transglobal Car Expedition paused on their around the world road trip to take in the Motor City. The less than a dozen team members and logistics personal didn’t seem to mind the cold or the wind — it was only going to get … Read more
Image: Bugatti & Bytech Good news fellow plebeians! Bugatti has unveiled a vehicle we common folk may actually be able to afford… and it’s an EV. Sounds too good to be true? It is. The French hypercar maker unveiled its first electric scooter at CES. Exciting, I know. Bugatti teamed up with U.S. company Bytech … Read more
