The new Tesla Model X will be Tesla’s third car. Think of it as an AWD 7 passenger Crossover that also happens to be an electric car. The Tesla Model S features some unique design elements like the Falcon Doors (no not gull-winged) and the Frunk. If you don’t know what a frunk is just [...]
No one needs an electric car. This is a fact that Tesla Motors would do well to remember. We have no doubt that millions of people may want an all electric car, but of course far fewer potential new car customers can actually afford to purchase a $58,570–$106,570 all electric Model S. We also suspect [...]
Toyota is not known for frivolous thinking. Still, if you take a gander at the Toyota Camatte and you realize that all of these photos are of the same car with different body panels, you KNOW the designers had fun with this concept. At about 9-feet long and just over 4-feet wide, the Camatte is a [...]
Have you ever wondered why highly successful bike companies like Trek, Specialized or Giant never design and build cars? We figure the answer is pretty straightforward: cars are a completely different breed of transportation and the bike companies are smart enough to realize that they don’t have the engineering expertise to build a good car. [...]
Can you believe that the Honda Civic is now in its ninth generation? At the New York Auto Show Honda rolled out five new versions of the ironic 2012 Honda Civic, and these include the high-mileage HF, the new hybrid, the natural gas model, and of course the hot hatch Honda Civi SI. Check out [...]
What does the Nissan Juke and a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue model have in common? If you answered that they both accelerate at about the same speed you’d be both right and wrong. You’d be correct because in the commercial below (model vs model) Nissan compares the acceleration of the new Juke to a Sports [...]
So far over the last few years Tesla has sold about 1500 EV Roadsters around the world. That, of course, is a drop in the bucket when compared to how many cars Toyota sells a week around the world. For instance Toyota has already sold millions of hybrid cars while Tesla continues to develop a [...]
Are you curious how Jeep changed the 2011 model line-up? Check out this video with Jeep head of design, Mark Allen, as he explains (and we show) all of the changes to the new 2011 Jeep model line-up. Perhaps the most striking design change is to the new 2011 Compass. Instead of the old frumpy [...]
