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No. Of course not! We can speak of 2017 models if we’d like. That’s the beauty of the automotive industry today. Technology is moving so quickly and innovations are advancing so rapidly that the cars being conceived today will be on the road in a few years. The car business is blooming.
The Acura RLX is an awesome vehicle to drive, ride in and enjoy, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at it. Although its handsome, it’s not a head turner by an means. Unless you notice the badging you might not even realize this is a top model full of awesome luxury features and technology,…
Words can create images in our heads, causing us to immediately connect that particular word with something to which we can relate. Often, vehicles are named after something we find intimidating, interesting, or something that speaks to another part of us. The word viper conjures images of a terrifying snake with a deadly bite, and…
Across the board Volkswagen is changing the infotainment system on their 2016 lineup along with several of the driver assistance features that are needed to ensure you can have the right features to give you the best drive and information possible. Some of the features are certainly only improvements on what was already aboard before,…
When you build an SUV, at least nowadays, it’s got to really be something for the world to notice. There are so many crossovers, compact crossover, and something above and in between that are on the market today that it’s hard to really keep track. Soon it seems the crossover SUV market will be as…
The announcement was made several months ago that the GM OnStar system wasn’t quite as secure as GM and OnStar thought it would be. The hacker that got into the OnStar system was Samy Kamkar and he showed exactly how vulnerable these vehicle systems can be and made it so GM would begin to work…
CHERRY HILL, N.J., Aug. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Monthly sales increase 10.5 percent over July 2014 44th consecutive month of year-over-year growth Best July ever for XV Crosstrek, WRX/STI, Forester and Impreza Best month ever for WRX/STI and XV Crosstrek 13.8 percent increase YTD over 2014 24th consecutive month of more than 10,000 Foresters sold…
The spoiler or wing that is put on a car is there for a few reasons. For many of us adding a wing to the back of our first car while in high school allows our little Honda Civic to look much more like it belongs on a track with other winged cars, even if…
For nearly thirty years the American Sports Car had been dragged through the mud. When the strict emissions regulations of the 1970s went into effect the sports cars made here in the US paid the biggest price. Until that time, our sports cars had gotten by on sheer power, showing off huge muscle and awesome…
When buying a new car, truck, or SUV, we often hear that you lose $5,000 in value just driving off the lot. For obvious reasons, consumers want the value of their new vehicle to remain high after they purchase or lease it. Although it is inevitable for new things to eventually reduce in value due…