NASCAR: Obaika Racing Withdraws From Daytona 500 Due to Lack of Funding
New Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series team Obaika Racing has pulled its No. 97 entry from the Feb. 17 Daytona 500, the official 2019 season opener. The withdrawal has left Cup Series Rookie of the Year...
View ArticleThe Mystery of Tesla's Autopilot-less European Model 3
There are recent reports that Tesla’s “Autopilot” isn’t type-approved in Europe, and therefore absent in the first batch fresh off the boat in Belgium. In the EU and in many countries throughout the...
View ArticleWhat Is The World's Best Radar Detector?
It is indisputable that radar detectors matter more than ever, but what is the world’s best radar detector? Ask the wrong question, get the wrong answer. The arsenal of law enforcement has vastly...
View ArticleDear Elon Musk: You Need Me For the Self-Driving Tesla Cannonball Run
Dear Elon: Just over 100 years ago, Erwin “Cannonball” Baker drove a Stutz Bearcat from Los Angeles to New York City in 271 hours, ushering in the era of coast-to-coast endurance driving records that...
View ArticleWho Is Really #1 In Self-Driving Cars?
Who is really #1 in self-driving cars? You wouldn’t know it from this week’s unintentionally entertaining Navigant Research Leaderboard Report on Automated Driving, which placed Ford first, GM second...
View ArticleShedding Some Light On The Pentagon's Most Shadowy Aviation Units
On May 2, 2011, a group of special operators from the top secret Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) descended on an unassuming compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. In an ensuing fire-fight, members...
View ArticleCan Sully Transform the World of Self-Driving Cars?
Lost in the putrid cloud of self-driving car clickbait, the Department of Transportation’s Advisory Committee on Automation in Transportation held its first meeting on January 16th, 2017. One look at...
View Article1999 Honda Accord EX – The Drive's Daily Mileage Champion
"You're one cheap ass motherfucker Roger!" Roger White was staring out the dealership window and looking at the type of car that had made Southern Honda rich. A 1999 Honda Accord EX, white on tan,...
View ArticleWill Humans Still Drive in an Autonomous Future?
Will humans still drive in the future? I was recently asked to join the debate over at 2025AD, a blog focused on the year many have claimed will be the watershed for the arrival of self-driving cars....
View ArticleStarsky Robotics Unveils a Self-Driving Truck That Could Kill Uber Subsidiary...
How many trucking jobs will self-driving trucks eliminate? All of them, if Uber subsidiary Otto has its way. What about Embark, last week’s alleged “Otto-killer”? Hard to tell from the vague press...
View ArticleThe 8 Best Filming Drones of 2017
So you want a drone that can film from the sky? DRIVE/Aerial is here to help. A few years ago, if you wanted to dabble in aerial photography or cinematography, you only had a handful of options....
View ArticleCadillac Book Is a Concierge Service That Will Disrupt the Rental Car, Dealer...
If you want to raise money, lose money, buy a company, sell a company, or hide the fact that you don't have a viable business plan in the transportation sector, add the word mobility. Mobility is the...
View ArticleRichard Hammond Loved Porsche's 996 GT3 When It Was New
We're really looking forward to the new season of Top Gear. It's fair to say at this point that The Grand Tour was a bit of a letdown and, shouting aside, the last season of Top Gear without "the holy...
View ArticleThe 2017 BMW M760i xDrive Is a $154,795 Car With A $50 Flaw
The 2017 BMW M7 is an amazing car with an Achilles heel. Its decklid badge doesn’t say M7. What else would you call a $154,795, 2.5 ton, 6.6-liter, twin-turbocharged, 601 horsepower, 12-cylinder...
View Article5 Best Complete Car Care Kits
The Drive's Car Care Roundup We've taken the time to review and compile this list of best car cleaning kits. We looked for both quality and completeness. We feel that for a kit to be recommended here...
View Article2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 3.0 Review: The World's Best Fourth Car?
The Tesla Roadster is a machine out of time, a gorgeous and maddening sports car with a boot in the future and a high heel in the past. If you were shopping for an exotic in 2006, this car had...
View ArticleThe NHTSA Report Exonerating Tesla Should Terrify the Auto Sector
Last week’s National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) report on Joshua Brown’s fatal Autopilot accident does a lot more than exonerate Tesla. It’s a stamp of approval for Tesla’s...
View ArticleI Was Wrong About Faraday Future's Pricing. Or Was I?
In world of clickbait and fake news, it’s essential that any writer who aspires to credibility admit a mistake. I made a mistake. I based my recent op-ed “Faraday Future’s Killer $290,000 Feature...
View ArticleChevy Prepares to Ramp Up Bolt Production and Ford Kills the V-6 Mustang: The...
Automotive Say goodbye to the V-6 Ford Mustang, as this will be the last year it is in production. Ford has decided to cut the popular V-6 for the 2018 refresh. This is understandable, as the...
View ArticleFaraday Future's Killer $290,000 Feature Revealed
The saga of Faraday Future could fill a book, but every story needs an ending. Here’s one: Jia Yueting, CEO of LeEco and Faraday’s primary investor, just leaked the price of the FF-91, their first...
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