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Absolute proof that the virtual and real worlds are converging for automobiles occurred on Sunday afternoon at the Goodwood Festival of Speed when a car designed for the Gran Turismo SPORT video game debuted as a real car then blitzed all comers on the… Continue reading Video game car comes to life … and blitzes all comers at Goodwood
Last week we forecast that the sixteenth car in history would sell at auction for more than US$20.0 million. It didn’t happen, but what did occur was even more astonishing. The 1964 Ferrari 250 LM had been to auction in Paris in February where a bid of… Continue reading Vendor drops $10 million by knocking back €20 million bid
One of the most refreshing and elegantly simple designs we’ve seen on an automobile in many a year, the AIM EV Sport 01 is a concept car from Japanese automotive engineering consultancy AIM, but the design work was done by legendary Japanese designer S… Continue reading Nissan GT-R designer pens a lightweight carbon EV “drivers car”
Rampant technological progress has teleported humanity from ignorance to understanding in an astonishingly short time. It is exactly 200 years ago that photography was emerging from the mind of French inventor Nicéphore Niépce onto bitumen-coated pewter plates, and for the first time, we could see a picture-perfect representation of what far-away things and events looked like. This story is about the best of the period before photography became mainstream, when human illustration was all we had.
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Continue reading Pictorial: The Bobins Collection of the world’s best eye-witness illustration
We’ve seen several attempts to create head-up display smartglasses for motorcyclists in the past, and we’ve been wildly unenthusiastic so far … but that just changed.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: BMW Motorrad Continue reading BMW unveils $750 ConnectedRide Motorcycle Smartglasses
The Goodwood Festival of Speed runs 13-16 July this year and it is a destination event for anyone who appreciates two-, three- and four-wheeled mobility and its glorious history.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Aston Martin, Bonhams… Continue reading Peter Sellers’ “Wrong Arm of the Law” Aston Martin DB4 GT
Cars that sell for more than $10 million are rare, but cars that sell for more than $20 million are very special indeed. There have only ever been 64 cars in history that have fetched more than USD $10 million at auction, and just 15 cars that have eve… Continue reading The 16th $20-million-car in history could sell this week
A new study forecasts that merchant losses from online payment fraud is growing dramatically, and will more than double over the next five years, rising from US$38 billion in 2023 to $91 billion in 2028.Continue ReadingCategory: Technology Continue reading Research report maps Online Payment Fraud Prevention Vendors
With premium EVs now producing more power than a Formula One car, and enough range so you’ll want to stop before they do, the number of ways a car maker can differentiate its product have diminished. Without the distinctive sounds and characteristics o… Continue reading Electric vehicle start-up is going to teach old dogs new tricks
Automotive manufacturers scour their private polls just as fastidiously as politicians do theirs, but the big difference is that there is never a “judgement day” for the car makers because they keep their customer satisfaction information, reliability … Continue reading Customer satisfaction survey predicts Top 10 cars that will “make you happy”