Tag Archives: car

Honda’s next Accord will be the automaker’s first vehicle to support Google built-in integration, enabling native Android apps and over the air (OTA) software updates (via Automotive News). It will be included as a standard feature in the top Touring trim of the 2023 Accord, arriving early next year. If you’ve never heard of “Google built-in,” that’s because it’s just another name for Android Automotive — the software giant’s vehicle operating system. Considering Google also… Source link

The headlines for online-car buying platform Carvana (CVNA) haven’t been good recently. And whether the company will remain a public entity is now in doubt. In fact, Yahoo Finance dubbed Carvana “Worst Company of the Year” after polling more than 5,000 readers on their suggestions. Despite a stock down 98% this year, concerns over its debt load, and whether management has the know-how to right the business, it seems one thing may have some staying power — the trend of buying used cars… Source link

Waze app with icon showing police Source: Waze In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later. Nobody enjoys sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic jams, getting an arrival time delayed due to street construction and gaining more road rage by the minute as a result. Waze, the crowdsourcing navigation app, is continuing to find ways to make frustrating road bumps a little more bearable. Waze users – also known as “Wazers” – provide… Source link

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin urged the Russian government on Wednesday to control car prices, as one industry head said Western sanctions could send annual sales crashing to below 1 million for the first time since records began. Auto sales have fallen over 60% so far this year, and may end up being less than a quarter of what they were a decade ago, according to Maxim Sokolov, head of Russia’s top carmaker Avtovaz. Some of this year’s drop is due to the pullout of foreign… Source link

‘Not living their life to impress others’: Here are the top car brands that rich Americans earning more than $200K drive most — and why you should too If money is no object, what car would you drive? Mercedes, Bentley, or perhaps the prancing horse from Maranello? Those are what we think of as “rich people cars.” But reality is a bit different. Don’t miss Toyotas, Hondas, and Fords? According to a study by Experian Automotive, a lot of wealthy folks simply don’t drive fancy cars. The… Source link

The all new Subaru BRZ shouldn’t even exist. What use is there for Subaru and Toyota (which helped co-develop the car and has its version, the 86), for a gas-powered, and not even turbocharged, sports car in this day and age when it’s all about EVs? Believe it not the BRZ has been around for over decade, and is still popular among enthusiasts of pure, stripped down sports cars. So when Subaru and Toyota announced they would be updated the prior gen BRZ and 86, there was much rejoicing among… Source link

Larry Page Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Google co-founder Larry Page’s flying car startup Kittyhawk is winding down, the company announced Wednesday. “We’re still working on the details of what’s next,” the company wrote in a LinkedIn post. Kittyhawk was founded as Zee.Aero in 2010 when Page recruited Sebastian Thrun, who had worked on self-driving cars and other experimental projects at Google, to create electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The company unveiled a demonstration… Source link

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Quinn Ewers had quite the debut as Texas quarterback, even if it was a little rough around the edges. The freshman threw his first interception before his first completion. He recovered nicely to throw for 225 yards and two touchdowns in a 52-10 victory over Louisiana-Monroe. But there were a handful of missed deep balls and at some point, campus parking services towed away his car, which he discovered after leaving the stadium that night. Next up: No. 1 Alabama, and a… Source link

Former Cup Series champion Kevin Harvick voiced his frustrations with NASCAR and its new Cup Series car after his car caught fire Sunday night at Darlington. Harvick was forced to park his car and get out of it while on track after it went up in flames during the final stage of the race won by Erik Jones. Harvick said that fire started coming through his dash two laps before he parked it and the flames kept getting worse. Harvick called the parts on the car “crappy-ass” in his interview… Source link

Video of Marshawn Lynch’s DUI arrest in Las Vegas on Tuesday was released on Thursday. The police bodycam footage shows Lynch as he sat in the driver’s seat of a Shelby GT500 missing its front driver’s side wheel. Five officers surrounded the car and spoke with Lynch as he remained seated with the driver’s side door open before they eventually pulled him out and arrested him. While he remained in the car, Lynch repeatedly asked officers what the problem was. “I’m not driving,” Lynch said…. Source link