April 15, 2014 Toyota’s decided to take a step back from robotics plants across Japan, reports Bloomberg News, and the idea behind it is as innovative as the move 30 years ago to replace humans with robots: The only way to improve processes and promote more thinking about efficiency is to put people back in…

August 1, 2013 Love the classics, can’t get enough of them! If you’re in the New York City area this weekend and have a craving for a good ol’ fashioned summertime car show, take a drive up Interstate 95 to Guilford, Conn., for the 35th annual Time Machines gathering. This long-running show held…

June 19, 2013 Toyota Motor Corp.’s incoming chairman said he wants the sports car the company is developing with BMW to be a midsized vehicle comparable to the discontinued Supra. Toyota’s next sports car should be like the Supra so that it doesn’t overlap with the 86 coupe, Takeshi Uchiyamada said in an…

May 9, 2013 Great article talks about transportation on two wheels!! Here’s an interesting thought: there are some 200 million motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, and trikes currently on the world’s roads. It’s definitely not hard to see why, especially in countries like India, China, and Africa, where they outnumber cars and trucks. It’s not…

April 4, 2013 Distance driving can be mind-numbingly boring, but looking away from the road to text or change songs is a life-or-death gamble. Plus, buttons embedded in the wheel only control a fraction of a car’s functionality. Now German researchers have a wheel prototype that puts everything within reach — no glancing…

March 6, 2013 Ever feel like your local plow drivers were purposely putting more snow on your car as some sick, cruel torture to make winter even worse? Well, up in Lowell, Mass., a working-class suburb north of Boston, one guy really was. Because he filmed it and uploaded the video to YouTube….

February 4, 2013 Toyota says it is recalling a total of more than 1 million vehicles, including some late-model luxury cars, due to a pair of safety problems involving defective airbags and faulty windshield wipers. The announcement comes during the same week the maker confirmed it regained its title in 2012 as the…

January 2, 2013 Car companies succeed, more or less, at one thing: creating automobiles. But that doesn’t stop them from chasing brand extension. Whether flexing design muscle or chasing another way to cash in, automakers release products that no one really asks for: redesigned bikes, furniture, iPhone cases, and even boats. Read the…

December 3, 2012 Not that I would not love to own any of them.  It’s long been known as “America’s sports car.” But as Chevrolet gets ready to roll out the latest version of the Corvette, that’s clearly no longer good enough for the General Motors division. When the all-new model, known to…