365 Days of Motoring News

365 Days of Motoring

• Detroit auto show models ― the human ones ― embrace new role 18 Jan 2019 11:59 Malay Mail The North American International Auto Show in Detroit. There are now fewer auto show models of the human variety. ― AFP picDETROIT, Jan 18 ― Every year at the Detroit auto show, good-looking women ― and men ― are deployed by the carmakers to present their …
• Bentley Motors global comms director joins automotive PR specialist Influence Associates 16 Jan 2019 16:13 PRWeek US He replaces James Andrew, who has moved to Lotus Cars as director of communications and PR, and will work alongside new global marketing head Simon Clare. Roberts is a veteran of automotive corporate comms and has led Bentley’s comms operation since 2014. …
• Drew Pritchard back with classic car TV show 15 Jan 2019 17:08 Bangor Mail Salvage Hunter star Drew Pritchard is back with a new classic car TV show on tomorrow. The Conwy based antiques supremo has teamed up with automotive guru Paul Cowland from Discovery Channel’s Turbo Pickers. The pair will find, buy, fix-up and sell classic …
• New Salvage Hunters series is set to be a classic 09 Jan 2019 16:03 Galloway News “TWO mates messing about with cars again.” That’s how Paul Cowland describes the new series of Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars, which starts next Wednesday. “People liked what we did with the first series, so we’ve kept it much the same, just with a bit more …
• Two wheeled wonders: The best looking classic bikes ever 09 Jan 2019 01:11 Daily Star BMW R32 Forget your Nissan Skyline, this sleek pre-WWII motorcycle was BMW's first, featuring a shaft-drive gearbox in place of the more common chain-drive one, a 8.5 HP 500cc air-cooled flat-twin motor, and was capable of 60 MPH. Not bad for 1923. It …
• How Byton Is Using “Co-Creation” Early On To Catch Potential Problems & Innovate Further 07 Jan 2019 21:42 CleanTechnica January 4th, 2019 by Nicolas Zart  Co-creation is all the rage lately, but it can amount to little more than focus groups after decisions have been made. In our ongoing Byton series, the company invited us to its co-creation event. This showed how the …
• Byton Reveals More Of The M-Byte At CES And It Feels Great 07 Jan 2019 18:49 CleanTechnica Cars Published on January 7th, 2019 | by Nicolas Zart 0 January 7th, 2019 by Nicolas Zart  Byton will show more of the interior of its M-Byte at CES 2019. CleanTechnica is there for the company’s unveiling, with interviews and a behind the scenes look on …
• All cars, all day long at swap meet 07 Jan 2019 14:26 Chronicle-Telegram MEDINA — With everything from vintage neon signs from the 1950s to table after table of car parts as far as the eye could see, the Medina Indoor Automotive Swap Meet attracted about 3,000 attendees Sunday. “There are a lot of guys, they call them …
• The 10 Most Expensive Classic Cars Sold at Auction in 2018 26 Dec 2018 23:55 automobilemag.com It’s been a big year for classic-car auctions. Numerous records have been set and then re-set, including the most valuable car ever sold at auction: the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that RM Sotheby’s hammered sold in Monterey at $48,405,000 this past August. Below …
• Kaspersky Lab Finds Vulnerabilities With Connected EV Chargers That Can Be Used To Hack Home Networks 26 Dec 2018 12:46 CleanTechnica December 26th, 2018 by Nicolas Zart  It took longer than expected, but connected EV home chargers are showing their potential danger in an era of the Internet of Things (IoT). Kaspersky Lab has reported finding a serious flaw for home networks with …
• Qiantu K50 Designer Daniel Darancou Talks To CleanTechnica About Design & Global Market 24 Dec 2018 11:35 CleanTechnica Cars Published on December 23rd, 2018 | by Nicolas Zart 0 December 23rd, 2018 by Nicolas Zart  Talking to designers is always a treat for me. You get insights that are rarely highlighted in press releases. That’s why I spoke with Daniel Darancou, the …
• Obituary: Fitting farewell for Rotorua's much-loved Cliff Wickham 23 Dec 2018 03:48 Rotorua Daily Post Cliff Wickham didn't do posh – he was your salt-of-the-earth Kiwi joker. He loved people and people loved him, which was demonstrated at his funeral on Saturday. The crowd that came to farewell him spilled out of Osborne's funeral home's chapel …
• Fitting farewell for Rotorua's much-loved Cliff Wickham 23 Dec 2018 02:46 The New Zeland Herald Cliff Wickham didn't do posh – he was your salt-of-the-earth Kiwi joker. He loved people and people loved him, which was demonstrated at his funeral on Saturday. The crowd that came to farewell him spilled out of Osborne's funeral home's chapel …
• Obituary: Fitting farewell for Cliff Wickham 23 Dec 2018 01:30 Rotorua Daily Post Cliff Wickham didn't do posh – he was your salt-of-the-earth Kiwi joker. He loved people and people loved him, which was demonstrated at his funeral on Saturday. The crowd that came to farewell him spilled out of Osborne's funeral home's chapel …
• EVA Autonomous Air Taxi Has Extended Wings & Can Function As Search & Rescue Aircraft 23 Dec 2018 00:22 CleanTechnica December 22nd, 2018 by Nicolas Zart  EVA is a new electric air mobility startup we met at LA Automobility 2018. It has a promising electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The eVTOL is small, 100% autonomous, and sports an ingenious …
• Why our cars are stars: the best long-term test fleet cars of 2018 20 Dec 2018 15:40 Auto Express Every year the Auto Express team spend thousands of miles on the road, and most of that time is spent in our range of long-term test cars. Of course there are always new cars in the office for various road and group tests, but it’s the long termers that do …
• This is the greatest classic car barn find known to man 20 Dec 2018 14:35 Yahoo! Voices Meet Billy Eubanks. He’s spent 50 years collecting an incredible number of vehicles, but not for financial benefit. Instead, he's gradually built up a throng of iconic machines because of an automotive obsession. The cars in storage remain seriously …
• New BMW 3 Series is still ‘the driver’s car’ 16 Dec 2018 11:58 Nation OVER the years, the BMW 3 Series have always set the benchmark for driving dynamics, but the new model to be introduced in Thailand next year has more to offer. Since 1975, more than 15.5 million 3 Series models have been sold worldwide, and it is indeed …
• Zoox’s Maddening Struggle to Make Robo-Cars Safe—and Prove It 15 Dec 2018 11:16 News Here’s the deal, says Mark Rosekind. He’s sitting in a large, white conference room, deep within Zoox’s sprawling office complex in Foster City, halfway between Palo Alto and San Francisco. Around him, some 400 workers clack away on computers, or roll out …
• This Shop Is Elevating Automotive Apparel and Accessories 14 Dec 2018 21:30 automobilemag.com The automotive-themed apparel space is a tough one to occupy. Good luck finding something that isn’t tacky, uninspired, or poorly made. Even if an item manages to be properly constructed, it’s usually a graphic tee you shouldn’t wear outside of a Cars and …
• High-tech super cars stay up to speed thanks to master technicians like Mickael Lagrange 14 Dec 2018 16:40 Meri News Today's automotive industry is reeling from a shortage of qualified, capable professionals. In the U.S., and in North America as a whole, it's not uncommon for there to be only a single individual handling every repair on a given make and model of …
• Aston teases a classic EV 12 Dec 2018 15:18 Daily Star British heartthrob automotive manufacturer Aston Martin is the latest brand to jump on the retro-inspired-EV bandwagon with this, the Heritage EV Concept. The body is of the immensely desirable 1970 DB6 MKII Volante, while the running gear features plug-in …
• Out with the new, in with the old: Edmund picks 6 used cars 12 Dec 2018 11:19 Brandon Sun Buying a used car instead of a new one has long been a surefire way to save money. Someone else takes the initial depreciation hit — between 25 to 30 per cent on average for the first year — so you pay a lot less for the car and finance a smaller amount. …
• Shanghai Super Classic, a vintage car lovers treat | Shanghai Daily 10 Dec 2018 09:58 Shanghai News AUTOMOBILE lovers in the city have a rare opportunity to see over 30 vintage cars from all over the world at the 2019 Shanghai Super Classic, held from May 15 to June 16, at the North Bund’s Shanghai Port International Cruise Terminal. It is the first ever …
• Shanghai Super Classic, a vintage car lovers’ treat 08 Dec 2018 05:31 Shanghai Daily AUTOMOBILE lovers in the city have a rare opportunity to see over 30 vintage cars from all over the world at the 2019 Shanghai Super Classic, held from May 15 to June 16, at the North Bund’s Shanghai Port International Cruise Terminal. It is the first ever …