The Lamborghini Urus concept car was first unveiled at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show in April 2012. This week, the Italian automaker has released a production version of the Lamborghini Urus super-SUV. It is an outrageously fast off-roading four-door sport utility vehicle. However, this is not the first SUV from Lamborghini. The first one, the [...]
Purchasing a car can be a little confusing, especially with the number of brands and models available today. It gets a little trickier when buying a used/pre-owned car. At times it can feel like a daunting experience and even more so if you’re making a purchase for the very first time. There are several things [...]
Lamborghini surely doesn’t need an introduction; neither do the cars they produce. It's widely known how exotic their vehicles are. But I’ve gathered some facts that you may not have known about this company. Lamborghini - Prisoner of War The founder of Lamborghini, Ferruccio Elio Arturo Lamborghini, was enlisted in the Italian Royal Air Forces [...]
Tesla Motors is head by someone who clearly sees the bigger picture and has made a success of all his companies. South African born Elon Musk has started up Tesla Motors, Paypal, SpaceX, and Solar City which are all valued at over $1 billion. He certainly is a game-changer and continually works on bringing forth [...]
At the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Nissan’s new LEAF took two international honours. In build up to the CES in Las Vegas that takes place every January, an announcement by the Consumer Technology Association took place in New York to a crowd filled with tech industry experts. The announcement names all the CES Best [...]
Let’s start with the basics, what is a hybrid car? A hybrid vehicle is one that makes use of more than one means of propulsion. At present that would be pairing a normal petrol or diesel (combustion) engine with an electric motor. However, the way these are merged differs among the automakers. The major benefits [...]
The Intelligent World Drive initiative was launched at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, IAA (Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung) in September. The German automaker now wants to take its systems and tech to the next level by testing them in different parts of the world. A Mercedes-Benz S‑Class has been automated, for an initiative called Intelligent World [...]
Automakers have been put into the spotlight and are undergoing scrutiny for its vehicle production that makes use of supplies from Kobe Steel. Kobe Steel is Japan’s third-largest steelmaker and are suppliers to Ford, GM (General Motors), Honda, Mitsubishi, Subaru, and Toyota. The Kobe Steel scandal A scandal around falsified data has raised its head. [...]
If you follow electric cars as avidly as I do, then you would have come across this. But for my readers and followers who don’t, I wanted to break down the swarm intelligence. As mentioned on our podcast show, AutoCentral, on Monday morning, autonomous cars are the way of the future. So what is swarm [...]
“The full environmental impact of electric cars needs to be analyzed more thoroughly before we can determine them to be more innocuous than internal combustion engines. I think that if you don't do the full analysis of what the origin of the electrical power is, where it comes from, how you get batteries into these [...]
