U.S. Patent and Trademark Office With self-driving cars at least on the distant horizon, automakers are thinking of ways to change the steering wheel. BMW’s latest idea is to turn it into a steering handle that you can manipulate with one hand.A wide crossbar...
Quick, what General Motors platform stayed in production for nearly a quarter-century, on five continents? No, not the rear-wheel-drive T-Body (best-known here as the basis for the Chevette), because those cars were built for more than a third of a century....
Even by body-on-frame-SUV standards, the Toyota 4Runner is antiquated. The current generation of the 4Runner has existed with only minor changes since 2009, and its 1GR-FE 4.0-liter V-6 engine has been around since the early 2000s. Its previous competitors—the likes...
In this episode of the Autoblog Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Greg Migliore is joined by Senior Editor, Green, John Beltz Snyder. CES took place this week, and there were some nice electric surprises from automakers, especially General Motors. John has been driving the Ram...
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Ahh, the holidays. Friends, family, good times—and gifts. This is the time of year when you can ask for the things you truly want rather than the stuff you need. Unfortunately, the best of intentions often result in the worst of presents. If you, like a lot of us,...
LG isn’t one of the companies we’d expect to have a vehicle debut at CES, but here we are with the Vision Omnipod. Yeah, it’s another transportation pod. Are you all getting tired of these, too? At any rate, the Omnipod is designed as a concept that’s meant to blur...
Each year, a growing number of companies travel to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to promise full autonomous driving. John Deere is delivering: It unveiled a self-driving tractor at CES 2022 that’s ready for mass production and that’s expected to...
BMW has revealed a performance version of its iX electric SUV, the iX M60.The M60 can produce up to 610 horsepower and 811 pound-feet of torque, sending it to 60 mph in a claimed 3.6 seconds. Air suspension comes standard on the M60, and the performance trim gains...
