If your obsession with cars began as a child, then chances are you had a sizable collection of Hot Wheels scattered throughout your room. It’s no secret the Hot Wheels brand is a global icon and in case you weren’t aware, the infatuation with these highly-detailed, micro-sized dream cars has only gained momentum over the years.
Last year, the brand celebrated its 50th anniversary by creating the first annual Hot Wheels Legends Tour. This year, we’re tagging along with the tour and we kicked things off in Miami, Florida, with our sights set on 17 other cities across the country.
Hot Wheels fans and car enthusiasts from Miami and surrounding regions swarmed the Pembroke Pines Walmart parking lot for the first stop of the tour. Historic life-sized Hot Wheels cars were on display for everyone to enjoy, kids were treated to various games, a pit stop challenge took [...]
It seems like every time an automaker redesigns a truck, it ends up a few inches longer and a few thousand dollars more expensive. Sure, you can buy a midsize pickup if the full-size version is too big, but they’re not much smaller than full-size trucks were a few generations ago. But even though this trend has been driven by customers who will happily pay for more space and all the modern technology found in crossovers, not everyone wants a massive, high-tech pickup truck.
That’s why this 1983 Toyota SR5 caught our attention as we were scrolling through all the cars on the docket for Barrett-Jackson’s 2019 Palm Beach auction that kicks off next week. Even though it’s not black, it should still scratch that Back to the Future itch, and anyone who loves ’80s style will appreciate those stripes. Plus, it’s small enough to park easily, and [...]
California, Arizona, Florida, and Michigan are among the earliest states to have legislation allowing some forms of autonomous car testing on their public roads. But what is autonomous car testing? Who gets to decide how automakers, auto parts and component suppliers, and even ride-hailing companies test this technology?
Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Toyota Motors, and SAE International—that is the Society of Automotive Engineers—have formed a consortium to develop a set of “best practices” for testing Level 4 and Level 5 autonomy on public roads. Work already is well underway to set a standard for conducting such testing for both states, companies, and other interested entities to follow.
“We have an initial draft set of principles for the safe deployment of the Level 4 and Level 5 vehicles, and we expect to publish a roadmap that addresses some of those areas, soon,” said Edward Straub, executive director of the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium (AVSC).
This [...]
The global economy is wobbling in 2019, giving rise to recession fears and forcing the world’s central banks to consider renewed policy easing.
The stresses have prompted repeated forecast downgrades by governments and other authorities. On Tuesday, the World Trade Organization slashed its 2019 trade projection to the weakest in three years. The OECD cut its economic forecast last month and warned of downside risks that could mean an even worse outcome.
Across trade, equities, currencies and interest rates, here are a few reasons analysts are worried about the global economic outlook:
U.S.-China trade talks sputter on, without any clear sign of resolution. The Chinese economy has been a difficult one to pin down, sliding more than expected and then improving in fits and starts. That’s feeding into a broader malaise in global demand, which has shown up in the form of dramatically slower trade flows.
[...]“She said, ‘Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side. …’”
—Lou Reed, 1972
What does Ol’ Lou singing tales of gender-bending ’70s Manhattan have to do with me telling you about a genre-bending racetrack performance car?
To get straight to the point: Compared to the KTM X-Bow (say “crossbow”), your prized supercar languishing in the garage is morbidly obese. That’s right. Porsche GT Whatever, Ferrari Speciale Blah Blah, McLaren Anything, you name it. Fatsos. Porkers. The KTM is the 1,400-pound not-elephant in the room. No offense—KTM most definitely has entered automobilia’s wild side.
Sure, your porcine supercar has 500, 600, even 700 horsepower. And that’s just thrilling when you’re rocketing straight ahead; the power can overcome that extra load, for the most part. But when you turn or stop? There’s just no denying Sir Isaac’s Second Law of Motion. The greater the mass, the greater the force needed to move it. Or as [...]
