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$3-billion electrical vehicle rebate bill moves to California Legislature for utter vote

Hurricane destruction expected to boost auto sales

Car Night has been an L.A. institution. But soon it could face the end of the road

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Finish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was motionless up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Fine Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Superb Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Fine Wall has yet to formally announce its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to fucking partner with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, embarking early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrical

Slightly in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will come back sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Whirr. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Display winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the off the hook all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-made.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrical with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrified, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital rock-hard Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s playmates as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrical: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda demonstrated up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enlargening its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car display boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The captivating automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

Pebble Beach 2017: Ferrari celebrates its 70th anniversary with seventy classics

Ferrari is celebrating its 70th anniversary by bringing seventy classic cars to Pebble Beach — one Ferrari for each year in the Italian sports car company’s history. The cars, possessed by the company, private owners and museums, are valued at a total of $500 million. Highlights from the collection, which.

Fiat Chrysler joins BMW-Intel to develop driverless cars

Automaker FCA, also known as Fiat Chrysler, buffed up its picture as a technology player Wednesday by linking with BMW and Intel to develop driverless cars. Last year, BMW and Intel, which recently bought driverless technology provider Mobileye, formed a partnership to develop a platform for autonomous.

Uber lodges with FTC over 'God View' and some other privacy issues

Uber has agreed to lodge accusations by America’s top consumer protection agency that the ride-hailing company failed to protect consumers’ sensitive data, a misstep that permitted employees to access rider and driver information and led to a data breach in two thousand fourteen that exposed thousands of drivers’.

Travis Kalanick is undermining Uber's search for a fresh CEO, says the investor that's suing him

Four days after suing former Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick, accusing him of fraud, early Uber investor Benchmark told Uber employees why it resorted to legal act: Kalanick, it said, was getting in the way. In an open letter sent to Uber employees and publicly collective on Twitter, the Silicon.

Ryder signs special deal with L.A. electric-truck maker Chanje

Ryder is moving into the electric-truck business, an early sign that a market for commercial electrical vehicles is beginning to take form. Miami-based Ryder System Inc. announced a deal Monday with fresh Los Angeles company Chanje as the electric-truck maker’s sensational sales and service fucking partner.

Infiniti introduces 'heritage-inspired' prototype race car

In what may be an automotive very first, the Japanese car company Infiniti has built a “heritage-inspired” prototype of a race car that never existed. The Prototype 9, to get its official unveiling at the upcoming Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance, is a single-seat electrified “retro-roadster” designed.

A fresh all-electric delivery truck is on the way, and it's not from Tesla

Chanje’s vision sounds a lot like Tesla’s: electrified vehicles recharged via clean rooftop solar power. But the fresh company has no interest in the automobile market. Instead, it’s coming in what it believes to be a lucrative niche in medium-duty electrical trucks. Few such trucks exist. Most medium-duty.

Maven Gig, GM's weekly car rental service, is now available in L.A.

Maven Gig, the GM-based weekly car rental service, has come to Los Angeles. Commencing Thursday, ride-hailing drivers for services such as Uber and Lyft and delivery drivers for companies such as GrubHub and Roadie will have access to flat-rate weekly deals on GM cars. The deals, designed in part.

Travis Kalanick won't come back as CEO of Uber, co-founder Garrett Camp says

Rumors have been circulating that Uber’s former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, is angling for a comeback to the helm of the ride-hailing company. Now, it seems, Uber co-founder and board member Garrett Camp wants to lay those rumors to rest. “Our CEO search is the board’s top priority,” Camp wrote.

Tesla starts raising cash to help it get Model three to the masses

Tesla Inc. is raising $1.Five billion as it ramps up production of the Model three sedan, its very first mass-market electrical car. The company said Monday that it plans to suggest senior notes due in two thousand twenty five and would use the suggesting's proceeds to further strengthen its balance sheet during rapid scaling of the.

Faraday Future plans to refurbish an old tire factory to take on Tesla

Faraday Future is running on fumes. But it’s still running. The Gardena-based luxury electrical car start-up raised $14 million in emergency funding and will lease an old factory near Fresno that will enable it to turn out Ten,000 cars a year. The company has dramatically lowered its ambitions. Its.

Concern mounts about harass odors, carbon monoxide in police Ford Explorers

Ford Motor Co. and federal regulators are investigating concerns raised by police departments around the country about excessive carbon-monoxide levels and harass odors in their police Ford Explorers, causing officers to fall ill. The Police Department in Austin, Texas, said it pulled almost.

Volkswagen executive pleads guilty in emissions scandal

A German Volkswagen executive pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and fraud charges in Detroit in a scheme to cheat on emission tests of almost 600,000 diesel vehicles. Fettered at the wrists and ankles and wearing crimson prison garb, Oliver Schmidt appeared before U.S. District Judge Sean Cox as.

Ferrari GTC4 Lusso: Lush looks and luxury in a super sports car

I confess: I had mixed feelings about telling goodbye to the two thousand seventeen Ferrari GTC4 Lusso. I was sad, because I’d had such a good week driving it. But I was also glad, because I had gotten through the week without hurting it. This top-of-the-line Italian sports touring car, an update of the previous.

Toyota and Mazda plan a $1.6-billion U.S. plant that could create Four,000 jobs

Japanese automakers Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. said Friday they plan to spend $1.6 billion to set up a joint-venture auto manufacturing plant in the U.S. — a stir that may create up to Four,000 jobs. The plant is to have an annual production capacity of about 300,000 vehicles, and produce.

As Tesla ramps up to produce its Model Trio, losses climb on

As Tesla commences ramping up production of its crucial Model three sedan, the company on Wednesday reported a second-quarter net loss of $401.Four million. The loss, which comes to $Two.04 a share, was better than analysts had expected but still 37% higher than what the company reported in the same quarter.

U.S. car sales proceed to skid, drop Five.7% in July

The economy is growing and unemployment is low, but consumers proceed to bashful away from fresh cars. For the seventh month in a row, U.S. car sales continued to decline. A faint bright spot is trucks and SUVs — which are continuing to sell fairly well — but even those purchases are slowing. And it's.

Five unusual features in the Tesla Model Trio, including an instrument-free dash

The Model Trio, Tesla’s mid-market all-electric sedan, officially launched Friday night, includes several unusual features. Such as no gauges on the dashboard: no speedometer, no tach, no mileage readouts, no sound system controls. Not a single button, lever or dial. Every bit of information that.

Elon Musk forearms over very first thirty Tesla Model 3s, but warns of 'manufacturing hell' ahead

Lights go dim. A rocket-launch-style countdown starts. Upbeat music pounds out some bass-heavy drama. 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, lift off. Headlights shine onto the stage, and a crimson Tesla Model three rolls up a ramp. The car brakes to a halt. A dramatic pause, and there he is! Chief Executive Elon Musk.

2017 Ford Concentrate RS — a hooligan car for the rest of us

Southern California is home to some of the automobile industry’s most creative car customizers. It’s not unusual to see tuners, hooligan cars or even Hoonigan copies, like the ones custom-made built by YouTube starlet Ken Block, carving up the L.A. concrete. The Concentrate RS, the spectacle version of Ford’s.

Elon Musk takes the stage tonight to supply the very first Tesla Model 3s

The Tesla Model three Owners Club is quivering with excitement. Members are planning what song they’ll crank up when driving their fresh Tesla off the retail lot: Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Rail,” AC/DC’s “Back in Black,” Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sounds of Muffle.” “We’ve been following the Model.

Volkswagen gets green light for charging stations under settlement plan

Rolls-Royce exposes its $450,000 Phantom VIII

Rolls-Royce has unveiled its fresh Phantom, the flagship of the British luxury brand. In introducing the Phantom VIII on Thursday, Rolls-Royce Chief Executive Torsten Müller-Ötvös called the eighth-generation vehicle an icon, an artwork, “a superior symbol of wealth and human achievement” — a car.

Takata air bag inflator ruptures in Florida crash that killed driver

Another driver has died in a crash that involved an exploding Takata air bag inflator. The crash happened July nineteen in Holiday, Fla., near Tampa, according to Honda. Local authorities have yet to release the cause of death and are investigating the crash, the automaker said. The unidentified driver.

U.S. regulators approve VW plan to fix or buy back most emissions-cheating cars

Volkswagen and U.S. environmental regulators announced their agreement Thursday on a plan for the German automaker to fix or buy back most of the diesel cars involved in an emissions cheating scandal. The company said the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board have.

Historic Laguna Seca track to remain under control of Sports Car Racing Assn. of Monterey Peninsula

A concerted effort by a group of deep-pocketed motoring enthusiasts to take control of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca has been rebuffed. For now, the historic Monterey Peninsula racetrack will remain under the stewardship of the Sports Car Racing Assn. of the Monterey Peninsula, or SCRAMP. The Monterey.

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AUTOS

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

$3-billion electrified vehicle rebate bill moves to California Legislature for utter vote

Hurricane destruction expected to boost auto sales

Car Night has been an L.A. institution. But soon it could face the end of the road

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Accomplish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was immovable up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Good Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Fine Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Superb Wall has yet to formally announce its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to fucking partner with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, beginning early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrical

Slightly in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will comeback sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Whirr. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Demonstrate winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the special all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-made.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrified with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrical, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital rock hard Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s fucking partners as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrified: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda demonstrated up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enlargening its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car demonstrate boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The charming automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

Pebble Beach 2017: Ferrari celebrates its 70th anniversary with seventy classics

Ferrari is celebrating its 70th anniversary by bringing seventy classic cars to Pebble Beach — one Ferrari for each year in the Italian sports car company’s history. The cars, possessed by the company, private owners and museums, are valued at a total of $500 million. Highlights from the collection, which.

Fiat Chrysler joins BMW-Intel to develop driverless cars

Automaker FCA, also known as Fiat Chrysler, buffed up its photo as a technology player Wednesday by linking with BMW and Intel to develop driverless cars. Last year, BMW and Intel, which recently bought driverless technology provider Mobileye, formed a partnership to develop a platform for autonomous.

Uber lodges with FTC over 'God View' and some other privacy issues

Uber has agreed to lodge accusations by America’s top consumer protection agency that the ride-hailing company failed to protect consumers’ sensitive data, a misstep that permitted employees to access rider and driver information and led to a data breach in two thousand fourteen that exposed thousands of drivers’.

Travis Kalanick is undermining Uber's search for a fresh CEO, says the investor that's suing him

Four days after suing former Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick, accusing him of fraud, early Uber investor Benchmark told Uber employees why it resorted to legal act: Kalanick, it said, was getting in the way. In an open letter sent to Uber employees and publicly collective on Twitter, the Silicon.

Ryder signs sensational deal with L.A. electric-truck maker Chanje

Ryder is moving into the electric-truck business, an early sign that a market for commercial electrified vehicles is beginning to take form. Miami-based Ryder System Inc. announced a deal Monday with fresh Los Angeles company Chanje as the electric-truck maker’s special sales and service playmate.

Infiniti introduces 'heritage-inspired' prototype race car

In what may be an automotive very first, the Japanese car company Infiniti has built a “heritage-inspired” prototype of a race car that never existed. The Prototype 9, to get its official unveiling at the upcoming Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance, is a single-seat electrified “retro-roadster” designed.

A fresh all-electric delivery truck is on the way, and it's not from Tesla

Chanje’s vision sounds a lot like Tesla’s: electrical vehicles recharged via clean rooftop solar power. But the fresh company has no interest in the automobile market. Instead, it’s injecting what it believes to be a lucrative niche in medium-duty electrical trucks. Few such trucks exist. Most medium-duty.

Maven Gig, GM's weekly car rental service, is now available in L.A.

Maven Gig, the GM-based weekly car rental service, has come to Los Angeles. Commencing Thursday, ride-hailing drivers for services such as Uber and Lyft and delivery drivers for companies such as GrubHub and Roadie will have access to flat-rate weekly deals on GM cars. The deals, designed in part.

Travis Kalanick won't come back as CEO of Uber, co-founder Garrett Camp says

Rumors have been circulating that Uber’s former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, is angling for a come back to the helm of the ride-hailing company. Now, it seems, Uber co-founder and board member Garrett Camp wants to lay those rumors to rest. “Our CEO search is the board’s top priority,” Camp wrote.

Tesla starts raising cash to help it get Model three to the masses

Tesla Inc. is raising $1.Five billion as it ramps up production of the Model three sedan, its very first mass-market electrified car. The company said Monday that it plans to suggest senior notes due in two thousand twenty five and would use the suggesting's proceeds to further strengthen its balance sheet during rapid scaling of the.

Faraday Future plans to refurbish an old tire factory to take on Tesla

Faraday Future is running on fumes. But it’s still running. The Gardena-based luxury electrical car start-up raised $14 million in emergency funding and will lease an old factory near Fresno that will enable it to turn out Ten,000 cars a year. The company has dramatically lowered its ambitions. Its.

Concern mounts about harass odors, carbon monoxide in police Ford Explorers

Ford Motor Co. and federal regulators are investigating concerns raised by police departments around the country about excessive carbon-monoxide levels and harass odors in their police Ford Explorers, causing officers to fall ill. The Police Department in Austin, Texas, said it pulled almost.

Volkswagen executive pleads guilty in emissions scandal

A German Volkswagen executive pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and fraud charges in Detroit in a scheme to cheat on emission tests of almost 600,000 diesel vehicles. Chained at the wrists and ankles and wearing crimson prison garb, Oliver Schmidt appeared before U.S. District Judge Sean Cox as.

Ferrari GTC4 Lusso: Lush looks and luxury in a super sports car

I confess: I had mixed feelings about telling goodbye to the two thousand seventeen Ferrari GTC4 Lusso. I was sad, because I’d had such a good week driving it. But I was also blessed, because I had gotten through the week without bruising it. This top-of-the-line Italian sports touring car, an update of the previous.

Toyota and Mazda plan a $1.6-billion U.S. plant that could create Four,000 jobs

Japanese automakers Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. said Friday they plan to spend $1.6 billion to set up a joint-venture auto manufacturing plant in the U.S. — a stir that may create up to Four,000 jobs. The plant is to have an annual production capacity of about 300,000 vehicles, and produce.

As Tesla ramps up to produce its Model Trio, losses climb on

As Tesla starts ramping up production of its crucial Model three sedan, the company on Wednesday reported a second-quarter net loss of $401.Four million. The loss, which comes to $Two.04 a share, was better than analysts had expected but still 37% higher than what the company reported in the same quarter.

U.S. car sales proceed to skid, drop Five.7% in July

The economy is growing and unemployment is low, but consumers proceed to timid away from fresh cars. For the seventh month in a row, U.S. car sales continued to decline. A faint bright spot is trucks and SUVs — which are continuing to sell fairly well — but even those purchases are slowing. And it's.

Five unusual features in the Tesla Model Three, including an instrument-free dash

The Model Three, Tesla’s mid-market all-electric sedan, officially launched Friday night, includes several unusual features. Such as no gauges on the dashboard: no speedometer, no tach, no mileage readouts, no sound system controls. Not a single button, lever or dial. Every bit of information that.

Elon Musk palms over very first thirty Tesla Model 3s, but warns of 'manufacturing hell' ahead

Lights go dim. A rocket-launch-style countdown starts. Upbeat music pounds out some bass-heavy drama. 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, lift off. Headlights shine onto the stage, and a crimson Tesla Model three rolls up a ramp. The car brakes to a halt. A dramatic pause, and there he is! Chief Executive Elon Musk.

2017 Ford Concentrate RS — a hooligan car for the rest of us

Southern California is home to some of the automobile industry’s most creative car customizers. It’s not unusual to see tuners, hooligan cars or even Hoonigan copies, like the ones custom-built built by YouTube starlet Ken Block, carving up the L.A. concrete. The Concentrate RS, the spectacle version of Ford’s.

Elon Musk takes the stage tonight to produce the very first Tesla Model 3s

The Tesla Model three Owners Club is quivering with excitement. Members are planning what song they’ll crank up when driving their fresh Tesla off the retail lot: Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Rail,” AC/DC’s “Back in Black,” Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sounds of Muffle.” “We’ve been following the Model.

Volkswagen gets green light for charging stations under settlement plan

Rolls-Royce exposes its $450,000 Phantom VIII

Rolls-Royce has unveiled its fresh Phantom, the flagship of the British luxury brand. In introducing the Phantom VIII on Thursday, Rolls-Royce Chief Executive Torsten Müller-Ötvös called the eighth-generation vehicle an icon, an artwork, “a superior symbol of wealth and human achievement” — a car.

Takata air bag inflator ruptures in Florida crash that killed driver

Another driver has died in a crash that involved an exploding Takata air bag inflator. The crash happened July nineteen in Holiday, Fla., near Tampa, according to Honda. Local authorities have yet to release the cause of death and are investigating the crash, the automaker said. The unidentified driver.

U.S. regulators approve VW plan to fix or buy back most emissions-cheating cars

Volkswagen and U.S. environmental regulators announced their agreement Thursday on a plan for the German automaker to fix or buy back most of the diesel cars involved in an emissions cheating scandal. The company said the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board have.

Historic Laguna Seca track to remain under control of Sports Car Racing Assn. of Monterey Peninsula

A concerted effort by a group of deep-pocketed motoring enthusiasts to take control of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca has been rebuffed. For now, the historic Monterey Peninsula racetrack will remain under the stewardship of the Sports Car Racing Assn. of the Monterey Peninsula, or SCRAMP. The Monterey.

Automotive News – Los Angeles Times

AUTOS

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

$3-billion electrified vehicle rebate bill moves to California Legislature for utter vote

Hurricane destruction expected to boost auto sales

Car Night has been an L.A. institution. But soon it could face the end of the road

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Accomplish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was motionless up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Superb Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Excellent Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Superb Wall has yet to formally announce its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to playmate with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, commencing early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrical

Hardly in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will come back sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Hum. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Showcase winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the special all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-made.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrical with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrical, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital rigid Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s playmates as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrical: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda demonstrated up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enlargening its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car display boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The captivating automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

Pebble Beach 2017: Ferrari celebrates its 70th anniversary with seventy classics

Ferrari is celebrating its 70th anniversary by bringing seventy classic cars to Pebble Beach — one Ferrari for each year in the Italian sports car company’s history. The cars, possessed by the company, private owners and museums, are valued at a total of $500 million. Highlights from the collection, which.

Fiat Chrysler joins BMW-Intel to develop driverless cars

Automaker FCA, also known as Fiat Chrysler, buffed up its pic as a technology player Wednesday by linking with BMW and Intel to develop driverless cars. Last year, BMW and Intel, which recently bought driverless technology provider Mobileye, formed a partnership to develop a platform for autonomous.

Uber lodges with FTC over 'God View' and some other privacy issues

Uber has agreed to lodge accusations by America’s top consumer protection agency that the ride-hailing company failed to protect consumers’ sensitive data, a misstep that permitted employees to access rider and driver information and led to a data breach in two thousand fourteen that exposed thousands of drivers’.

Travis Kalanick is undermining Uber's search for a fresh CEO, says the investor that's suing him

Four days after suing former Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick, accusing him of fraud, early Uber investor Benchmark told Uber employees why it resorted to legal activity: Kalanick, it said, was getting in the way. In an open letter sent to Uber employees and publicly collective on Twitter, the Silicon.

Ryder signs sensational deal with L.A. electric-truck maker Chanje

Ryder is moving into the electric-truck business, an early sign that a market for commercial electrified vehicles is beginning to take form. Miami-based Ryder System Inc. announced a deal Monday with fresh Los Angeles company Chanje as the electric-truck maker’s off the hook sales and service fucking partner.

Infiniti introduces 'heritage-inspired' prototype race car

In what may be an automotive very first, the Japanese car company Infiniti has built a “heritage-inspired” prototype of a race car that never existed. The Prototype 9, to get its official unveiling at the upcoming Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance, is a single-seat electrical “retro-roadster” designed.

A fresh all-electric delivery truck is on the way, and it's not from Tesla

Chanje’s vision sounds a lot like Tesla’s: electrified vehicles recharged via clean rooftop solar power. But the fresh company has no interest in the automobile market. Instead, it’s coming in what it believes to be a lucrative niche in medium-duty electrified trucks. Few such trucks exist. Most medium-duty.

Maven Gig, GM's weekly car rental service, is now available in L.A.

Maven Gig, the GM-based weekly car rental service, has come to Los Angeles. Embarking Thursday, ride-hailing drivers for services such as Uber and Lyft and delivery drivers for companies such as GrubHub and Roadie will have access to flat-rate weekly deals on GM cars. The deals, designed in part.

Travis Kalanick won't comeback as CEO of Uber, co-founder Garrett Camp says

Rumors have been circulating that Uber’s former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, is angling for a come back to the helm of the ride-hailing company. Now, it seems, Uber co-founder and board member Garrett Camp wants to lay those rumors to rest. “Our CEO search is the board’s top priority,” Camp wrote.

Tesla starts raising cash to help it get Model three to the masses

Tesla Inc. is raising $1.Five billion as it ramps up production of the Model three sedan, its very first mass-market electrified car. The company said Monday that it plans to suggest senior notes due in two thousand twenty five and would use the suggesting's proceeds to further strengthen its balance sheet during rapid scaling of the.

Faraday Future plans to refurbish an old tire factory to take on Tesla

Faraday Future is running on fumes. But it’s still running. The Gardena-based luxury electrified car start-up raised $14 million in emergency funding and will lease an old factory near Fresno that will enable it to turn out Ten,000 cars a year. The company has dramatically lowered its ambitions. Its.

Concern mounts about harass odors, carbon monoxide in police Ford Explorers

Ford Motor Co. and federal regulators are investigating concerns raised by police departments around the country about excessive carbon-monoxide levels and harass odors in their police Ford Explorers, causing officers to fall ill. The Police Department in Austin, Texas, said it pulled almost.

Volkswagen executive pleads guilty in emissions scandal

A German Volkswagen executive pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and fraud charges in Detroit in a scheme to cheat on emission tests of almost 600,000 diesel vehicles. Fettered at the wrists and ankles and wearing crimson prison garb, Oliver Schmidt appeared before U.S. District Judge Sean Cox as.

Ferrari GTC4 Lusso: Lush looks and luxury in a super sports car

I confess: I had mixed feelings about telling goodbye to the two thousand seventeen Ferrari GTC4 Lusso. I was sad, because I’d had such a good week driving it. But I was also blessed, because I had gotten through the week without hurting it. This top-of-the-line Italian sports touring car, an update of the previous.

Toyota and Mazda plan a $1.6-billion U.S. plant that could create Four,000 jobs

Japanese automakers Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. said Friday they plan to spend $1.6 billion to set up a joint-venture auto manufacturing plant in the U.S. — a stir that may create up to Four,000 jobs. The plant is to have an annual production capacity of about 300,000 vehicles, and produce.

As Tesla ramps up to produce its Model Trio, losses climb on

As Tesla embarks ramping up production of its crucial Model three sedan, the company on Wednesday reported a second-quarter net loss of $401.Four million. The loss, which comes to $Two.04 a share, was better than analysts had expected but still 37% higher than what the company reported in the same quarter.

U.S. car sales proceed to skid, drop Five.7% in July

The economy is growing and unemployment is low, but consumers proceed to bashful away from fresh cars. For the seventh month in a row, U.S. car sales continued to decline. A faint bright spot is trucks and SUVs — which are continuing to sell fairly well — but even those purchases are slowing. And it's.

Five unusual features in the Tesla Model Three, including an instrument-free dash

The Model Three, Tesla’s mid-market all-electric sedan, officially launched Friday night, includes several unusual features. Such as no gauges on the dashboard: no speedometer, no tach, no mileage readouts, no sound system controls. Not a single button, lever or dial. Every bit of information that.

Elon Musk mitts over very first thirty Tesla Model 3s, but warns of 'manufacturing hell' ahead

Lights go dim. A rocket-launch-style countdown embarks. Upbeat music pounds out some bass-heavy drama. 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, lift off. Headlights shine onto the stage, and a crimson Tesla Model three rolls up a ramp. The car brakes to a halt. A dramatic pause, and there he is! Chief Executive Elon Musk.

2017 Ford Concentrate RS — a hooligan car for the rest of us

Southern California is home to some of the automobile industry’s most creative car customizers. It’s not unusual to see tuners, hooligan cars or even Hoonigan copies, like the ones custom-built built by YouTube starlet Ken Block, carving up the L.A. concrete. The Concentrate RS, the spectacle version of Ford’s.

Elon Musk takes the stage tonight to supply the very first Tesla Model 3s

The Tesla Model three Owners Club is quivering with excitement. Members are planning what song they’ll crank up when driving their fresh Tesla off the retail lot: Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Rail,” AC/DC’s “Back in Black,” Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sounds of Muffle.” “We’ve been following the Model.

Volkswagen gets green light for charging stations under settlement plan

Rolls-Royce exposes its $450,000 Phantom VIII

Rolls-Royce has unveiled its fresh Phantom, the flagship of the British luxury brand. In introducing the Phantom VIII on Thursday, Rolls-Royce Chief Executive Torsten Müller-Ötvös called the eighth-generation vehicle an icon, an artwork, “a superior symbol of wealth and human achievement” — a car.

Takata air bag inflator ruptures in Florida crash that killed driver

Another driver has died in a crash that involved an exploding Takata air bag inflator. The crash happened July nineteen in Holiday, Fla., near Tampa, according to Honda. Local authorities have yet to release the cause of death and are investigating the crash, the automaker said. The unidentified driver.

U.S. regulators approve VW plan to fix or buy back most emissions-cheating cars

Volkswagen and U.S. environmental regulators announced their agreement Thursday on a plan for the German automaker to fix or buy back most of the diesel cars involved in an emissions cheating scandal. The company said the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board have.

Historic Laguna Seca track to remain under control of Sports Car Racing Assn. of Monterey Peninsula

A concerted effort by a group of deep-pocketed motoring enthusiasts to take control of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca has been rebuffed. For now, the historic Monterey Peninsula racetrack will remain under the stewardship of the Sports Car Racing Assn. of the Monterey Peninsula, or SCRAMP. The Monterey.

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$3-billion electrical vehicle rebate bill moves to California Legislature for utter vote

Hurricane destruction expected to boost auto sales

Car Night has been an L.A. institution. But soon it could face the end of the road

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Accomplish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was immobilized up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Excellent Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Good Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Excellent Wall has yet to formally announce its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to playmate with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, commencing early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrical

Slightly in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will comeback sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Hum. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Showcase winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the off the hook all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-made.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrified with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrified, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital rock hard Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s playmates as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrical: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda showcased up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enhancing its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car showcase boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The fascinating automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

Pebble Beach 2017: Ferrari celebrates its 70th anniversary with seventy classics

Ferrari is celebrating its 70th anniversary by bringing seventy classic cars to Pebble Beach — one Ferrari for each year in the Italian sports car company’s history. The cars, wielded by the company, private owners and museums, are valued at a total of $500 million. Highlights from the collection, which.

Fiat Chrysler joins BMW-Intel to develop driverless cars

Automaker FCA, also known as Fiat Chrysler, buffed up its picture as a technology player Wednesday by linking with BMW and Intel to develop driverless cars. Last year, BMW and Intel, which recently bought driverless technology provider Mobileye, formed a partnership to develop a platform for autonomous.

Uber lodges with FTC over 'God View' and some other privacy issues

Uber has agreed to lodge accusations by America’s top consumer protection agency that the ride-hailing company failed to protect consumers’ sensitive data, a misstep that permitted employees to access rider and driver information and led to a data breach in two thousand fourteen that exposed thousands of drivers’.

Travis Kalanick is undermining Uber's search for a fresh CEO, says the investor that's suing him

Four days after suing former Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick, accusing him of fraud, early Uber investor Benchmark told Uber employees why it resorted to legal act: Kalanick, it said, was getting in the way. In an open letter sent to Uber employees and publicly collective on Twitter, the Silicon.

Ryder signs sensational deal with L.A. electric-truck maker Chanje

Ryder is moving into the electric-truck business, an early sign that a market for commercial electrical vehicles is beginning to take form. Miami-based Ryder System Inc. announced a deal Monday with fresh Los Angeles company Chanje as the electric-truck maker’s special sales and service playmate.

Infiniti introduces 'heritage-inspired' prototype race car

In what may be an automotive very first, the Japanese car company Infiniti has built a “heritage-inspired” prototype of a race car that never existed. The Prototype 9, to get its official unveiling at the upcoming Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance, is a single-seat electrical “retro-roadster” designed.

A fresh all-electric delivery truck is on the way, and it's not from Tesla

Chanje’s vision sounds a lot like Tesla’s: electrical vehicles recharged via clean rooftop solar power. But the fresh company has no interest in the automobile market. Instead, it’s coming in what it believes to be a lucrative niche in medium-duty electrical trucks. Few such trucks exist. Most medium-duty.

Maven Gig, GM's weekly car rental service, is now available in L.A.

Maven Gig, the GM-based weekly car rental service, has come to Los Angeles. Kicking off Thursday, ride-hailing drivers for services such as Uber and Lyft and delivery drivers for companies such as GrubHub and Roadie will have access to flat-rate weekly deals on GM cars. The deals, designed in part.

Travis Kalanick won't come back as CEO of Uber, co-founder Garrett Camp says

Rumors have been circulating that Uber’s former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, is angling for a comeback to the helm of the ride-hailing company. Now, it seems, Uber co-founder and board member Garrett Camp wants to lay those rumors to rest. “Our CEO search is the board’s top priority,” Camp wrote.

Tesla starts raising cash to help it get Model three to the masses

Tesla Inc. is raising $1.Five billion as it ramps up production of the Model three sedan, its very first mass-market electrified car. The company said Monday that it plans to suggest senior notes due in two thousand twenty five and would use the suggesting's proceeds to further strengthen its balance sheet during rapid scaling of the.

Faraday Future plans to refurbish an old tire factory to take on Tesla

Faraday Future is running on fumes. But it’s still running. The Gardena-based luxury electrified car start-up raised $14 million in emergency funding and will lease an old factory near Fresno that will enable it to turn out Ten,000 cars a year. The company has dramatically lowered its ambitions. Its.

Concern mounts about harass odors, carbon monoxide in police Ford Explorers

Ford Motor Co. and federal regulators are investigating concerns raised by police departments around the country about excessive carbon-monoxide levels and harass odors in their police Ford Explorers, causing officers to fall ill. The Police Department in Austin, Texas, said it pulled almost.

Volkswagen executive pleads guilty in emissions scandal

A German Volkswagen executive pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and fraud charges in Detroit in a scheme to cheat on emission tests of almost 600,000 diesel vehicles. Chained at the wrists and ankles and wearing crimson prison garb, Oliver Schmidt appeared before U.S. District Judge Sean Cox as.

Ferrari GTC4 Lusso: Lush looks and luxury in a super sports car

I confess: I had mixed feelings about telling goodbye to the two thousand seventeen Ferrari GTC4 Lusso. I was sad, because I’d had such a good week driving it. But I was also glad, because I had gotten through the week without hurting it. This top-of-the-line Italian sports touring car, an update of the previous.

Toyota and Mazda plan a $1.6-billion U.S. plant that could create Four,000 jobs

Japanese automakers Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. said Friday they plan to spend $1.6 billion to set up a joint-venture auto manufacturing plant in the U.S. — a stir that may create up to Four,000 jobs. The plant is to have an annual production capacity of about 300,000 vehicles, and produce.

As Tesla ramps up to produce its Model Trio, losses climb on

As Tesla embarks ramping up production of its crucial Model three sedan, the company on Wednesday reported a second-quarter net loss of $401.Four million. The loss, which comes to $Two.04 a share, was better than analysts had expected but still 37% higher than what the company reported in the same quarter.

U.S. car sales proceed to skid, drop Five.7% in July

The economy is growing and unemployment is low, but consumers proceed to bashful away from fresh cars. For the seventh month in a row, U.S. car sales continued to decline. A faint bright spot is trucks and SUVs — which are continuing to sell fairly well — but even those purchases are slowing. And it's.

Five unusual features in the Tesla Model Trio, including an instrument-free dash

The Model Trio, Tesla’s mid-market all-electric sedan, officially launched Friday night, includes several unusual features. Such as no gauges on the dashboard: no speedometer, no tach, no mileage readouts, no sound system controls. Not a single button, lever or dial. Every bit of information that.

Elon Musk palms over very first thirty Tesla Model 3s, but warns of 'manufacturing hell' ahead

Lights go dim. A rocket-launch-style countdown embarks. Upbeat music pounds out some bass-heavy drama. 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, lift off. Headlights shine onto the stage, and a crimson Tesla Model three rolls up a ramp. The car brakes to a halt. A dramatic pause, and there he is! Chief Executive Elon Musk.

2017 Ford Concentrate RS — a hooligan car for the rest of us

Southern California is home to some of the automobile industry’s most creative car customizers. It’s not unusual to see tuners, hooligan cars or even Hoonigan copies, like the ones custom-made built by YouTube starlet Ken Block, carving up the L.A. concrete. The Concentrate RS, the spectacle version of Ford’s.

Elon Musk takes the stage tonight to produce the very first Tesla Model 3s

The Tesla Model three Owners Club is quivering with excitement. Members are planning what song they’ll crank up when driving their fresh Tesla off the retail lot: Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Rail,” AC/DC’s “Back in Black,” Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sounds of Muffle.” “We’ve been following the Model.

Volkswagen gets green light for charging stations under settlement plan

Rolls-Royce exposes its $450,000 Phantom VIII

Rolls-Royce has unveiled its fresh Phantom, the flagship of the British luxury brand. In introducing the Phantom VIII on Thursday, Rolls-Royce Chief Executive Torsten Müller-Ötvös called the eighth-generation vehicle an icon, an artwork, “a superior symbol of wealth and human achievement” — a car.

Takata air bag inflator ruptures in Florida crash that killed driver

Another driver has died in a crash that involved an exploding Takata air bag inflator. The crash happened July nineteen in Holiday, Fla., near Tampa, according to Honda. Local authorities have yet to release the cause of death and are investigating the crash, the automaker said. The unidentified driver.

U.S. regulators approve VW plan to fix or buy back most emissions-cheating cars

Volkswagen and U.S. environmental regulators announced their agreement Thursday on a plan for the German automaker to fix or buy back most of the diesel cars involved in an emissions cheating scandal. The company said the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board have.

Historic Laguna Seca track to remain under control of Sports Car Racing Assn. of Monterey Peninsula

A concerted effort by a group of deep-pocketed motoring enthusiasts to take control of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca has been rebuffed. For now, the historic Monterey Peninsula racetrack will remain under the stewardship of the Sports Car Racing Assn. of the Monterey Peninsula, or SCRAMP. The Monterey.

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AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

$3-billion electrical vehicle rebate bill moves to California Legislature for total vote

Hurricane destruction expected to boost auto sales

Car Night has been an L.A. institution. But soon it could face the end of the road

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Finish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was immobilized up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Fine Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Excellent Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Superb Wall has yet to formally proclaim its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to playmate with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, embarking early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrified

Slightly in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will comeback sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Whirr. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Display winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the special all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-built.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrified with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrical, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital stiff Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s fucking partners as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrical: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda displayed up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enlargening its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car showcase boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The charming automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

Pebble Beach 2017: Ferrari celebrates its 70th anniversary with seventy classics

Ferrari is celebrating its 70th anniversary by bringing seventy classic cars to Pebble Beach — one Ferrari for each year in the Italian sports car company’s history. The cars, wielded by the company, private owners and museums, are valued at a total of $500 million. Highlights from the collection, which.

Fiat Chrysler joins BMW-Intel to develop driverless cars

Automaker FCA, also known as Fiat Chrysler, buffed up its picture as a technology player Wednesday by linking with BMW and Intel to develop driverless cars. Last year, BMW and Intel, which recently bought driverless technology provider Mobileye, formed a partnership to develop a platform for autonomous.

Uber lodges with FTC over 'God View' and some other privacy issues

Uber has agreed to lodge accusations by America’s top consumer protection agency that the ride-hailing company failed to protect consumers’ sensitive data, a misstep that permitted employees to access rider and driver information and led to a data breach in two thousand fourteen that exposed thousands of drivers’.

Travis Kalanick is undermining Uber's search for a fresh CEO, says the investor that's suing him

Four days after suing former Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick, accusing him of fraud, early Uber investor Benchmark told Uber employees why it resorted to legal activity: Kalanick, it said, was getting in the way. In an open letter sent to Uber employees and publicly collective on Twitter, the Silicon.

Ryder signs special deal with L.A. electric-truck maker Chanje

Ryder is moving into the electric-truck business, an early sign that a market for commercial electrical vehicles is beginning to take form. Miami-based Ryder System Inc. announced a deal Monday with fresh Los Angeles company Chanje as the electric-truck maker’s special sales and service fucking partner.

Infiniti introduces 'heritage-inspired' prototype race car

In what may be an automotive very first, the Japanese car company Infiniti has built a “heritage-inspired” prototype of a race car that never existed. The Prototype 9, to get its official unveiling at the upcoming Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance, is a single-seat electrical “retro-roadster” designed.

A fresh all-electric delivery truck is on the way, and it's not from Tesla

Chanje’s vision sounds a lot like Tesla’s: electrical vehicles recharged via clean rooftop solar power. But the fresh company has no interest in the automobile market. Instead, it’s injecting what it believes to be a lucrative niche in medium-duty electrical trucks. Few such trucks exist. Most medium-duty.

Maven Gig, GM's weekly car rental service, is now available in L.A.

Maven Gig, the GM-based weekly car rental service, has come to Los Angeles. Commencing Thursday, ride-hailing drivers for services such as Uber and Lyft and delivery drivers for companies such as GrubHub and Roadie will have access to flat-rate weekly deals on GM cars. The deals, designed in part.

Travis Kalanick won't comeback as CEO of Uber, co-founder Garrett Camp says

Rumors have been circulating that Uber’s former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, is angling for a come back to the helm of the ride-hailing company. Now, it seems, Uber co-founder and board member Garrett Camp wants to lay those rumors to rest. “Our CEO search is the board’s top priority,” Camp wrote.

Tesla starts raising cash to help it get Model three to the masses

Tesla Inc. is raising $1.Five billion as it ramps up production of the Model three sedan, its very first mass-market electrified car. The company said Monday that it plans to suggest senior notes due in two thousand twenty five and would use the suggesting's proceeds to further strengthen its balance sheet during rapid scaling of the.

Faraday Future plans to refurbish an old tire factory to take on Tesla

Faraday Future is running on fumes. But it’s still running. The Gardena-based luxury electrical car start-up raised $14 million in emergency funding and will lease an old factory near Fresno that will enable it to turn out Ten,000 cars a year. The company has dramatically lowered its ambitions. Its.

Concern mounts about harass odors, carbon monoxide in police Ford Explorers

Ford Motor Co. and federal regulators are investigating concerns raised by police departments around the country about excessive carbon-monoxide levels and harass odors in their police Ford Explorers, causing officers to fall ill. The Police Department in Austin, Texas, said it pulled almost.

Volkswagen executive pleads guilty in emissions scandal

A German Volkswagen executive pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and fraud charges in Detroit in a scheme to cheat on emission tests of almost 600,000 diesel vehicles. Fettered at the wrists and ankles and wearing crimson prison garb, Oliver Schmidt appeared before U.S. District Judge Sean Cox as.

Ferrari GTC4 Lusso: Lush looks and luxury in a super sports car

I confess: I had mixed feelings about telling goodbye to the two thousand seventeen Ferrari GTC4 Lusso. I was sad, because I’d had such a good week driving it. But I was also blessed, because I had gotten through the week without bruising it. This top-of-the-line Italian sports touring car, an update of the previous.

Toyota and Mazda plan a $1.6-billion U.S. plant that could create Four,000 jobs

Japanese automakers Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. said Friday they plan to spend $1.6 billion to set up a joint-venture auto manufacturing plant in the U.S. — a stir that may create up to Four,000 jobs. The plant is to have an annual production capacity of about 300,000 vehicles, and produce.

As Tesla ramps up to produce its Model Three, losses climb on

As Tesla commences ramping up production of its crucial Model three sedan, the company on Wednesday reported a second-quarter net loss of $401.Four million. The loss, which comes to $Two.04 a share, was better than analysts had expected but still 37% higher than what the company reported in the same quarter.

U.S. car sales proceed to skid, drop Five.7% in July

The economy is growing and unemployment is low, but consumers proceed to timid away from fresh cars. For the seventh month in a row, U.S. car sales continued to decline. A faint bright spot is trucks and SUVs — which are continuing to sell fairly well — but even those purchases are slowing. And it's.

Five unusual features in the Tesla Model Three, including an instrument-free dash

The Model Three, Tesla’s mid-market all-electric sedan, officially launched Friday night, includes several unusual features. Such as no gauges on the dashboard: no speedometer, no tach, no mileage readouts, no sound system controls. Not a single button, lever or dial. Every bit of information that.

Elon Musk forearms over very first thirty Tesla Model 3s, but warns of 'manufacturing hell' ahead

Lights go dim. A rocket-launch-style countdown commences. Upbeat music pounds out some bass-heavy drama. 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, lift off. Headlights shine onto the stage, and a crimson Tesla Model three rolls up a ramp. The car brakes to a halt. A dramatic pause, and there he is! Chief Executive Elon Musk.

2017 Ford Concentrate RS — a hooligan car for the rest of us

Southern California is home to some of the automobile industry’s most creative car customizers. It’s not unusual to see tuners, hooligan cars or even Hoonigan copies, like the ones custom-built built by YouTube starlet Ken Block, carving up the L.A. concrete. The Concentrate RS, the spectacle version of Ford’s.

Elon Musk takes the stage tonight to supply the very first Tesla Model 3s

The Tesla Model three Owners Club is quivering with excitement. Members are planning what song they’ll crank up when driving their fresh Tesla off the retail lot: Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Rail,” AC/DC’s “Back in Black,” Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sounds of Muffle.” “We’ve been following the Model.

Volkswagen gets green light for charging stations under settlement plan

Rolls-Royce exposes its $450,000 Phantom VIII

Rolls-Royce has unveiled its fresh Phantom, the flagship of the British luxury brand. In introducing the Phantom VIII on Thursday, Rolls-Royce Chief Executive Torsten Müller-Ötvös called the eighth-generation vehicle an icon, an artwork, “a superior symbol of wealth and human achievement” — a car.

Takata air bag inflator ruptures in Florida crash that killed driver

Another driver has died in a crash that involved an exploding Takata air bag inflator. The crash happened July nineteen in Holiday, Fla., near Tampa, according to Honda. Local authorities have yet to release the cause of death and are investigating the crash, the automaker said. The unidentified driver.

U.S. regulators approve VW plan to fix or buy back most emissions-cheating cars

Volkswagen and U.S. environmental regulators announced their agreement Thursday on a plan for the German automaker to fix or buy back most of the diesel cars involved in an emissions cheating scandal. The company said the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board have.

Historic Laguna Seca track to remain under control of Sports Car Racing Assn. of Monterey Peninsula

A concerted effort by a group of deep-pocketed motoring enthusiasts to take control of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca has been rebuffed. For now, the historic Monterey Peninsula racetrack will remain under the stewardship of the Sports Car Racing Assn. of the Monterey Peninsula, or SCRAMP. The Monterey.

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Plan to boost electric-vehicle rebates to $Trio billion is scrapped in favor of state examine

Labor regulators order Tesla to react to worker complaints

Cruising California canyons in Jaguar's F-Type SVR

Funding for $3-billion electrified car rebate bill is up in the air

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Accomplish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their journey finishes, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday as it attempts to repair its privacy reputation. Uber was criticized by users and privacy advocates when it announced last year that it would collect location.

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was immobile up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Good Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Superb Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Excellent Wall has yet to formally proclaim its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to playmate with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, commencing early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrified

Hardly in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will comeback sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Whirr. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Demonstrate winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the sensational all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-built.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrical with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrified, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital rock hard Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s fucking partners as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrified: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda showcased up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enhancing its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car showcase boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The charming automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

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AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

Plan to boost electric-vehicle rebates to $Three billion is scrapped in favor of state examine

Labor regulators order Tesla to react to worker complaints

Cruising California canyons in Jaguar's F-Type SVR

Funding for $3-billion electrified car rebate bill is up in the air

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Finish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their tour completes, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday as it attempts to repair its privacy reputation. Uber was criticized by users and privacy advocates when it announced last year that it would collect location.

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was immobile up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Fine Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Superb Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Superb Wall has yet to formally proclaim its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to fucking partner with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, beginning early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrified

Slightly in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will come back sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Hum. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Display winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the special all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-built.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrical with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrical, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital stiff Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s playmates as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrical: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda displayed up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enhancing its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car showcase boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The fascinating automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

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AUTOS

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

Plan to boost electric-vehicle rebates to $Trio billion is scrapped in favor of state examine

Labor regulators order Tesla to react to worker complaints

Cruising California canyons in Jaguar's F-Type SVR

Funding for $3-billion electrified car rebate bill is up in the air

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Finish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their tour completes, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday as it attempts to repair its privacy reputation. Uber was criticized by users and privacy advocates when it announced last year that it would collect location.

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was immobilized up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Fine Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Fine Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Excellent Wall has yet to formally announce its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to fucking partner with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, commencing early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrified

Hardly in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will comeback sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Hum. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Display winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the off the hook all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-built.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrified with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrified, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital rock hard Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s playmates as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrical: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda displayed up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enlargening its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car demonstrate boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The fascinating automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

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AUTOS

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

Plan to boost electric-vehicle rebates to $Trio billion is scrapped in favor of state probe

Labor regulators order Tesla to react to worker complaints

Cruising California canyons in Jaguar's F-Type SVR

Funding for $3-billion electrical car rebate bill is up in the air

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Finish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their tour completes, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday as it attempts to repair its privacy reputation. Uber was criticized by users and privacy advocates when it announced last year that it would collect location.

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was stationary up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Fine Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Good Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Good Wall has yet to formally proclaim its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to fucking partner with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, commencing early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrified

Scarcely in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will come back sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Hum. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Showcase winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the special all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-built.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrified with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrical, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital rock hard Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s fucking partners as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrical: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda showcased up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enlargening its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car display boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The fascinating automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

Automotive News – Los Angeles Times

AUTOS

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

Plan to boost electric-vehicle rebates to $Trio billion is scrapped in favor of state explore

Labor regulators order Tesla to react to worker complaints

Cruising California canyons in Jaguar's F-Type SVR

Funding for $3-billion electrical car rebate bill is up in the air

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Finish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their excursion finishes, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday as it attempts to repair its privacy reputation. Uber was criticized by users and privacy advocates when it announced last year that it would collect location.

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was stationary up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Excellent Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Superb Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Fine Wall has yet to formally proclaim its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to playmate with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, embarking early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrical

Slightly in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will come back sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Hum. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Demonstrate winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the special all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-built.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrified with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrical, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital rock-hard Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s playmates as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrified: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda demonstrated up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enlargening its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car showcase boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The fascinating automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

Automotive News – Los Angeles Times

AUTOS

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

Plan to boost electric-vehicle rebates to $Trio billion is scrapped in favor of state investigate

Labor regulators order Tesla to react to worker complaints

Cruising California canyons in Jaguar's F-Type SVR

Funding for $3-billion electrical car rebate bill is up in the air

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Finish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their excursion finishes, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday as it attempts to repair its privacy reputation. Uber was criticized by users and privacy advocates when it announced last year that it would collect location.

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was immobile up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Excellent Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Fine Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Good Wall has yet to formally announce its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to playmate with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, kicking off early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrical

Scarcely in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will comeback sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Whirr. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Showcase winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the sensational all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-built.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrical with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrified, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital rigid Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s playmates as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrical: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda displayed up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enhancing its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car demonstrate boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The fascinating automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

Automotive News – Los Angeles Times

AUTOS

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

Plan to boost electric-vehicle rebates to $Trio billion is scrapped in favor of state probe

Labor regulators order Tesla to react to worker complaints

Cruising California canyons in Jaguar's F-Type SVR

Funding for $3-billion electrified car rebate bill is up in the air

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Finish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their journey completes, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday as it attempts to repair its privacy reputation. Uber was criticized by users and privacy advocates when it announced last year that it would collect location.

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was immobilized up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Good Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Good Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Good Wall has yet to formally announce its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to playmate with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, embarking early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrical

Hardly in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will comeback sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Hum. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Display winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the special all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-built.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrical with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrified, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital rigid Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s fucking partners as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrified: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda demonstrated up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enlargening its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car showcase boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The captivating automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

Automotive News – Los Angeles Times

AUTOS

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

Plan to boost electric-vehicle rebates to $Trio billion is scrapped in favor of state explore

Labor regulators order Tesla to react to worker complaints

Cruising California canyons in Jaguar's F-Type SVR

Funding for $3-billion electrical car rebate bill is up in the air

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Accomplish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their journey completes, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday as it attempts to repair its privacy reputation. Uber was criticized by users and privacy advocates when it announced last year that it would collect location.

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was motionless up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Fine Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Superb Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Good Wall has yet to formally proclaim its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to playmate with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, beginning early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrical

Scarcely in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will come back sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Hum. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Showcase winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the sensational all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-built.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrified with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrical, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital rock hard Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s playmates as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrified: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda displayed up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enhancing its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car display boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The charming automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

Automotive News – Los Angeles Times

AUTOS

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

Plan to boost electric-vehicle rebates to $Trio billion is scrapped in favor of state probe

Labor regulators order Tesla to react to worker complaints

Cruising California canyons in Jaguar's F-Type SVR

Funding for $3-billion electrified car rebate bill is up in the air

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Finish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their journey finishes, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday as it attempts to repair its privacy reputation. Uber was criticized by users and privacy advocates when it announced last year that it would collect location.

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was stationary up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Superb Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Good Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Superb Wall has yet to formally proclaim its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to fucking partner with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, embarking early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrified

Scarcely in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will comeback sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Hum. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Demonstrate winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the off the hook all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-made.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrified with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrical, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital rigid Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s playmates as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrified: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda displayed up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enlargening its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car display boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The fascinating automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

Automotive News – Los Angeles Times

AUTOS

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

Plan to boost electric-vehicle rebates to $Trio billion is scrapped in favor of state explore

Labor regulators order Tesla to react to worker complaints

Cruising California canyons in Jaguar's F-Type SVR

Funding for $3-billion electrified car rebate bill is up in the air

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Accomplish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their journey completes, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday as it attempts to repair its privacy reputation. Uber was criticized by users and privacy advocates when it announced last year that it would collect location.

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was immobilized up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Superb Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Good Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Fine Wall has yet to formally announce its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to playmate with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, embarking early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrical

Scarcely in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will come back sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Whirr. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Demonstrate winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the special all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-built.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrified with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrical, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital stiff Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s fucking partners as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrical: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda displayed up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enlargening its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car display boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The fascinating automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

Automotive News – Los Angeles Times

AUTOS

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

Plan to boost electric-vehicle rebates to $Three billion is scrapped in favor of state examine

Labor regulators order Tesla to react to worker complaints

Cruising California canyons in Jaguar's F-Type SVR

Funding for $3-billion electrical car rebate bill is up in the air

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Finish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their tour completes, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday as it attempts to repair its privacy reputation. Uber was criticized by users and privacy advocates when it announced last year that it would collect location.

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was motionless up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Good Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Superb Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Superb Wall has yet to formally announce its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to fucking partner with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, embarking early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrified

Scarcely in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will comeback sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Hum. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Display winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the off the hook all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-built.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrical with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrified, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital hard Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s fucking partners as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrical: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda demonstrated up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enlargening its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car demonstrate boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The charming automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

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AUTOS

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

Plan to boost electric-vehicle rebates to $Trio billion is scrapped in favor of state examine

Labor regulators order Tesla to react to worker complaints

Cruising California canyons in Jaguar's F-Type SVR

Funding for $3-billion electrified car rebate bill is up in the air

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Accomplish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their journey completes, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday as it attempts to repair its privacy reputation. Uber was criticized by users and privacy advocates when it announced last year that it would collect location.

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was immovable up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Fine Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Fine Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Good Wall has yet to formally proclaim its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to playmate with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, embarking early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrified

Hardly in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will come back sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Whirr. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Showcase winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the off the hook all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-built.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrified with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrical, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital stiff Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s fucking partners as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrified: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda demonstrated up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enlargening its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car display boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The fascinating automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

Automotive News – Los Angeles Times

AUTOS

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS, SAFETY & TRENDS

Plan to boost electric-vehicle rebates to $Trio billion is scrapped in favor of state probe

Labor regulators order Tesla to react to worker complaints

Cruising California canyons in Jaguar's F-Type SVR

Funding for $3-billion electrical car rebate bill is up in the air

Harley's fresh hogs, ready for the 21st century

Pebble Beach 2017: Finish list of Concours D'Elegance winners

Pebble Beach 2017: Guts, glory and glamour at Concours d'Elegance

Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off

Uber will end a controversial policy of tracking some riders for five minutes after their journey finishes, the ride-hailing company said Tuesday as it attempts to repair its privacy reputation. Uber was criticized by users and privacy advocates when it announced last year that it would collect location.

Volkswagen engineer gets prison term and $200,000 fine in emissions-cheating case

A Volkswagen engineer who had a key role in the company's diesel emissions scandal has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and fined $200,000 — a steeper penalty than prosecutors requested. James Robert Liang, 63, knew the German automaker was cheating and worked to cover it up.

For paramours of vintage cars, DriveShare is the fresh place to rent (or rent out) your rail

Want to drive a one thousand nine hundred thirty seven Packard this weekend? A one thousand nine hundred seventy three VW van? A one thousand nine hundred thirty one Model A? DriveShare has your car. The fresh company, modeling itself as the “Airbnb of vintage cars,” is now suggesting a peer-to-peer rental service. Using a database of more than one million vehicles insured by parent company Hagerty.

Harley-Davidson cruises into two thousand eighteen with fresh models

Harley-Davidson is betting big on cruisers. The Milwaukee motorcycle company has turned some of its bestselling Dyna bikes into fresh Softail bikes, hoping to attract fresh riders to the brand and keep current riders railing longer. For 2018, the following machines will be part of the Softail family.

How a dangerous Takata air bag made its way into a used car

A dangerous Takata air bag should have been recalled before going from a wrecked car to a salvage yard, eventually ending up in a two thousand two Honda Accord and almost killing a Las Vegas woman, a lawsuit alleges. The Accord was stationary up and sold in March two thousand sixteen to the family of Karina Dorado, a 19-year-old.

China's Fine Wall Motors considers bid for Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit

Chinese SUV maker Good Wall Motors is considering making a bid to buy Fiat Chrysler's Jeep unit, spokespeople for the Chinese company said Monday, in a possible ambitious fresh step onto the global stage for one of China's fast-growing auto brands. Excellent Wall has yet to formally proclaim its interest.

Pebble Beach 2017: Petersen to playmate with Porsche on fresh exhibit

The Petersen Automotive Museum will convert its Mullin Grand Salon into a Porsche platform, kicking off early next year. The Wilshire Boulevard car museum has entered into an agreement with Porsche Cars North America to convene a yearlong exhibit of what its officers call “one of the most comprehensive.

Pebble Beach 2017: The VW van is back — but this time it's electrical

Hardly in time for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has announced it will bring back the most iconic vehicle of the 1960s. The VW van will come back sometime in the next two years, as the I.D. Hum. But this time around, it’s not a four-cylinder, water-cooled gas burner. The.

Pebble Beach 2017: Elegant ATS two thousand five hundred named Best of Demonstrate winner at The Quail

The Sunday in Monterey Car Week belongs to Pebble Beach, and its Concours D’Elegance. But Friday increasingly belongs to Carmel Valley, and its The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. And the off the hook all-day affair — where luxury lifestyle manufacturers of everything including fine wines, custom-made.

Pebble Beach 2017: Confederate Motorcycles announces plan to go electrified with Santa Cruz company

Confederate Motorcycles makes some of America’s meanest, leanest and loudest V-twin street machines. But now they’re going electrical, abandoning the internal combustion engine for a battery-electric powertrain, in partnership with California’s Zero Motorcycles. The company in Birmingham, Ala., will.

Uber's Travis Kalanick punches back against the Benchmark lawsuit targeting him

Uber’s co-founder and former chief executive, Travis Kalanick, has struck back at venture capital hard Benchmark. In seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit Benchmark filed against him, he called the suit a “smear campaign” and characterized the firm’s fucking partners as ruthless opportunists who staged an.

Honda Clarity Electrified: A plug-in BEV with mid-size sedan style

Honda demonstrated up early for the hydrogen fuel cell party, getting to market before Toyota’s Mirai and Hyundai’s Tuscon with an early version of its current Clarity sedan. Now the company is enhancing its visibility on the EV scene with an all-electric Clarity — but arriving too late, critics will.

Pebble Beach car display boasts of greater diversity

Organizers of the upcoming 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance say there will be something fresh on the storied 18th green this year: diversity. The captivating automotive beauty contest, held Sunday and capping a weeklong cavalcade of car shows, auctions and rallies, attracts the world’s wealthiest.

Pebble Beach 2017: BMW brings fresh Z4, M8 to the concept lawn

German car company BMW is taking advantage of a captive audience of auto fans and journalists assembled for the annual Monterey Car Week to unveil a pair of concept vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. The two concept cars, which the company says precede production cars that will be exposed some.

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