Ice Road Truckers do it for a living. Even Jeremy Clarkson and James May did it — all the way to the freakin’ North Pole. So why shouldn’t you or I drive on ice? Because as this clip demonstrates, it’s dangerous and it’ll ruin your pants (not in the way you’d think). Consider it a […]
New Year’s Eve is a special night: a night for wary suburbanites to make their annual schlep to the city center, and for otherwise upright teetotalers to knock back the bubbly like barflies. Here at TCC, we fall somewhere in the middle — right between “grandpa at the ice cream social” and “Gary Busey” — […]
For 2010, the Acura TL is once again offered with a manual gearbox. But you’re probably going to have to special-order it, or at least do some calling and searching to even find one.Why? Because even among luxury sport sedans, the number of people opting for a manual transmission is very low–typically less than five […]
2010 NISSAN PATHFINDER STYLING | [7 out of 10] Kelley Blue Book: “progressive design that is both stylish and rugged” Cars.com: “the most unusual feature of the side view–the rear door handles mounted vertically and higher than the front door handles–hasn’t changed” Edmunds: “dash and center console have […]
Just months after Hyundai announced that it’s planning a telematics system to rival GM’s OnStar comes news that Hyundai’s sister, Kia, is working on a Ford Sync-killer. Details about the system — called UVO — remain under wraps, but it’s expected to debut at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.UVO has been in […]
A few weeks ago, General Motors’ chairman Ed Whitacre was on a spree: he’d sacked the company’s CEO, canned and shifted many others on the executive team, and boldly said that if a buyer for Saab weren’t found by December 31, the brand would bite the big one. Fortunately for Saab fans, Whitacre’s saber-rattling appears […]
The Kia Borrego could be a one-year wonder.The South Korean automaker says the full-size Borrego sport-utility vehicle will not return to the U.S. for the 2010 model year.The Borrego arrived on the market late in 2008, a victim of poor timing and bad luck. Kia had hoped to sell up to 20,000 Borregos each year, […]
The 2011 Ford Fiesta has garnered loads of attention in recent months. It’s been popular with drivers and journalists, and it’s been the subject of a highly successful marketing campaign. Now there’s yet another reason to look forward to the Fiesta’s U.S. release: it will be the first American Ford vehicle to offer a three-blink […]
When we first heard of luxury automaker Aston Martin’s plan to rebadge a Toyota iQ — leaving everything under the hood intact and making only cosmetic adjustments — we were stunned, but also slightly excited. True, the appropriately named Aston Martin Cygnet wouldn’t have the power and performance of the Vantage or the DBS — […]
Newspapers across the country often publish the names of those arrested for vandalism, assault, and other charges, but Montgomery County, Texas (just north of Houston) has moved that practice into the digital age: District Attorney Brett Ligon and County Vehicular Crimes Prosecutor Warren Diepraam are publishing the names of everyone arrested ..
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