Audi is now rolling out a limited-edition TT to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the small, sporty two-door. Priced from $52,900, the model receives styling cues from a design study that previewed the original TT.
The TTS Roadster concept was revealed at the 1995 Tokyo Motor Show before the production car debuted in 1998. The first TT concept (a coupe) appeared earlier in 1995 at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Like the TTS Roadster concept, the Audi TT 20th Anniversary Edition features Moccasin Brown Fine Nappa leather with yellow baseball-inspired stitching. Each model has an interior badge denoting its unique production number, in addition to a “TT 20 Years” logo. A Technology package is standard with a Bang & Olufsen sound system, digital instrument display, MMI navigation plus infotainment, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and lane change assistant.
Buyers can choose from two exterior colors: Aviator Gray Pearl Metallic [...]
It’s hardly a news flash if you’ve been paying attention: Over the past decade, American families have dumped their family sedans for compact SUVs.
Such a transformation in automotive preferences is nearly unprecedented: Car-based compact crossovers have become the best-selling passenger vehicles in the United States—second only to full-size pickups—and odds are you and/or most of your neighbors have one in the driveway.
We did a comparison test of this grouping just a few short years ago, but because this red-hot segment is so competitive, many of the players have undergone significant changes of late. To keep your knowledge up to date as far as who makes the best small SUV right now, we have assembled the eight most important compact crossovers on the market. Who lays claim to bragging rights this time around?
There’s a lot of pressure on the newest entry in our group, [...]
Mazda is worried about your pelvis. Really, they are. It spent a lot of time thinking about your pelvic region and how it interacts with your upper body when developing its new 2019 Mazda3. To Mazda, understanding how your pelvis moves in relation to the rest of your body was the key in figuring out how to give its new compact sedan and hatchback the sporty performance the brand is famous for—“Oneness,” in Mazda parlance—while also moving upmarket to challenge luxury makers.
The 2019 Mazda3 marks the point of no return for Mazda—it’s the line separating everyman “zoom-zoom” Mazda from its ambitions to be a luxury automaker. Although many automakers signify luxury intent with big, expensive flagships, Mazda opted instead to use the entry-level Mazda3 as the foundation for its climb. Its latest Skyactiv vehicle architecture is one piece of the puzzle; the new platform is both stiffer [...]
After a year-long tease, the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 was finally revealed at the 2019 Detroit auto show. The top-trim Ford pony car certainly looks the part of a 700-plus-hp brute, but is its design different enough from the Shelby models that slot below it? Let’s examine.
Like the GT350 and GT350R, the GT500 sticks with the pre-refresh headlights. But besides the shared lamps, the front end is completely different on the GT500. The upper and lower mesh grilles are bisected by a black bumper piece, which makes it look like the car has one big, gaping hexagonal grille. Meanwhile, the fenders are significantly wider and are made of composite materials to reduce weight. The hood [...]
When it comes to self-driving cars, Jaguar Land Rover is thinking of the small but important details. The automaker has studied ways to combat motion sickness in autonomous cars as our attention turns away from the road and to our smartphones. And now, it’s working on lights that can help these cars communicate with pedestrians.
Jaguar is testing a system that projects images onto the road to show pedestrians the car’s intended path of travel. A series of lines projected onto the road fan out left or right to indicate where a car will turn. These lines also indicate changes in speed. Gaps between the lines shorten when the pod comes to a stop, and widen as the car accelerates. In the future, the projections on the road could even inform pedestrians of potential road obstacles.
The autonomous pods were developed by autonomous tech company Aurrigo. The tests [...]
