LONDON — Matt LeBlanc is going to be a presenter on Top Gear. The Friends and Episodes actor is joining Chris Evans on the long-running motoring show, Topgear.com announced Thursday. The new show premieres in May. Top Gear lost its star presenters Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond last year after Clarkson was dropped…
To prove its toughness, Ford is taking its 2017 Ford Raptor desert racing. See also: Faraday Future’s 1,000-horsepower concept car should make Tesla very, very nervous Entering the 2016 Best in the Desert off-road racing series factory stock class does more than let Ford designers cover the courageous new performance truck in racing livery. It…
The Scion brand is no more. Well, at least, soon it won’t be. On Wednesday morning, Scion announced that, starting in August, all 2017 model year Scion models will be sold as rebadged Toyotas. The FR-S sports car, iA sedan, iM five-door hatch, and C-HR will live on as Toyotas. However, the tC coupe will…
Tesla buyers, be careful what you write about the company — if you’re deemed “rude,” you just might get banned from buying a Tesla car That’s what happened to Californian venture capitalist Stewart Alsop, whose Tesla order got canceled — by company CEO Elon Musk, no less — after he wrote a blog post criticizing…
Typically, when a carmaker unveils a new model, it reveals most — if not all — of the details about the car But not Tesla MotorsElon Musk doesn’t intend to reveal everything about the mass-market Model 3 when it makes its world debut this spring. See also: The year in Elon Musk’s highs and lows,…
Ford’s all-new supercar, the 2017 GT, will go on sale later this year. However, it won’t be like a Focus — you won’t be able to just turn up to the dealer and hope to drive away in one. It’s going to be a bit more involved than that. Before Ford will let you —…
Picking up your smartphone while behind the wheel of your car is illegal in many states. That doesn’t mean, however, you won’t want to experience the music and news streaming from apps on your phone. Enter Radiomize, which includes an app and a steering wheel cover — complete with patented touchpad — designed to make…
Jaguar Land Rover announced Monday morning that it is putting five highly automated vehicles on U.K. roads this year to test both connectivity and self-driving tech. Imagine, for example, if your car knew about a patch of black ice before it crossed it and warned you so you could avoid. Image: Jaguar Land Rover See…
Self-driving cars are going to be the future of mobility. That is, for everyone but Porsche. Porsche CEO Oliver Blume told German newspaper Westfalen-Blatt that the performance carmaker does not plan to develop an autonomous car, Reuters reports. See also: Lamborghini’s Hong Kong dealer has two $4.5 million Veneno Roadsters in stock “One wants to…
What’s the old adage? If you can’t beat them, join them? Well, it seems that’s exactly what Tesla is doing. The upstart EV automaker has applied for a dealership license in Michigan. This is a change, of course, for Tesla because, up until now, it has been selling its cars around the country in company-run…