Rhys Millen and Stephan Verdier had the rug ripped out from under their Global RallyCross careers last season when Hyundai announced that they were pulling out of all North American motorsports but both drivers will make their GRC return this weekend at the LA X Games – with Verdier driving a privately owned and sponsored Subaru WRX while Millen will bring out the same Hyundai Veloster race cars that he used in 2012.
It would be Henry Ford’s 150th birthday, were he alive today, and chances are he would be happy with how the company he founded is doing over 100 years after he began building a Model T every 90 minutes on the revolutionary moving assembly line he created.
Audi will be the first automaker to bring the fast LTE data transfer and the 2014 S3 Sportback will be the first car in the world to receive it. What will this mean for drivers and passengers?
All these Asian automakers are responding to the perceived need to rapidly develop a charging network to serve the growing fleet of plug-in hybrid, plug-in electric hybrid, and full-time electric vehicles from all four manufacturers in Japan.
The first asphalt road was implemented 143 years ago today, as Belgian immigrant Edward de Smedt tested his mix of oil bitumen and aggregate on Williams Street in Newark to end the battle between wagon wheels and muddy streets.
Dueling press releases from Toyota and Ford claim strong growth in hybrid (or electrified) car sales, and the competition is a good sign overall of strength in that market segment.
The people at Callaway Competition have received approval from General Motors to begin working on a new2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray racecar and the images here are the first rendering from Callaway of what the first C7 Stingray racecar could look like when it arrives later this year.
