[bsa_pro_ad_space id=14] A Paralympian was left battered and bruised last week, after Toyota’s ‘e-Palette’ autonomous transporter failed to stop at a pedestrian crossing. View 1 images Japanese manufacturer Toyota has temporarily suspended its self-driving shuttle bus program, after one of its vehicles hit an athlete at the Paralympic games in Tokyo last Thursday. The ‘e-Palette’ autonomous…
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=14] One of Australia’s rarest cars – a 1972 Ford XA Falcon GTHO Phase IV – has reportedly sold for $1.75 million, overtaking the previous record of $1.15 million paid for a pristine 1971 Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase III earlier this year. Joshua Dowling has been a motoring journalist for more than 20…
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=14] The 2021 LDV D90 is a spacious and well-featured seven-seat SUV. Explore it in more detail by taking a Virtual Test Drive!Sponsored by LDV .verse-player-embed { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .verse-player-embed iframe, .verse-player-embed object, .verse-player-embed embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height:…
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=14] With plenty of news about production delays and long lead times in securing some models, we wanted to start a series showing which new cars are in stock around the country, that you can get your hands on right away. First up, the Mazda BT-50 ute. Updated to an all-new model last year,…
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=14] It was one of the most bizarre F1 Grands Prix, on record with Max Verstappen victorious after two laps behind a safety car. Heavy rain fell over Spa which caused chaos before the lights even went out, with Sergio Perez losing control of his Red Bull through Les Combes as he made his…
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=14] What were your most memorable automotive backsides? For me, they included the eyebrows and cat’s-eye lamps of the 1959 Chevrolet Impala, the triple bulbs of the ’58 Impala, the sequential turn signals of the Mercury Cougar, the split-window ’63 Corvette, and the winged trio of the Bertone BAT concept cars. But I’d also…
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=14] With automotive historian Rob Manson and Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance chair Sandra Button providing commentary, Torque Media, which produced the livestream coverage of the 2021 concours, has produced a brief minute-and-a-half video showing the roots of what is now Monterey Car Week. It was back in 1950 that sports cars raced through the…
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=14] A ’69 Mercury Cougar XR7 Super Cobra has come up for auction at Barrett Jackson. The Cougar was MotorTrends’s 1967 Car of the Year. It shares its underpinnings with the Ford Mustang, however, the two cars feature a different wheelbase and sheet metal. The Cougar was Ford’s answer to a car that slotted…
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=14] Some collectors like to show off their cars, while others stash them away. The latter was the case with the Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport featured on a recent episode of “Jay Leno’s Garage,” which spent decades parked in a Los Angeles-area warehouse. Leno acquired the car last year after its owner died. That…
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=14] The Aston Martin DBX was a controversial success from launch and, today, it accounts for more that 50-percent of the company’s global sales. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that there are more derivatives of the DBX coming – a move that is expected to keep demand high and make up for…