In the 30 years since Lexus debuted at the 1989 North American International Auto Show, Toyota’s premium brand has offered a wide variety of vehicles from mid-sized family sedans to full-size off-road capable SUVs to the LFA supercar. One feature…

Given the numerous challenges faced by the auto industry today as it tries to meet future fuel economy and CO2 emissions standards, one might wonder why Ford is expending resources on a low volume supercar like the GT. From the perspective of Ford,…

As I write this, Ian Callum has just retired as Jaguar’s director of design. It’s fascinating how two brands that comprise the same company and actually share a lot of hardware can have such dramatically different approaches to design but that is…

For the past eight years, Ford has been notable in the vehicle connectivity space for its emphasis on so-called “brought-in” solutions using its SYNC platform. Until now, SYNC has always relied on drivers connecting their phones via either Bluetooth…

After nearly two years of referring to its first dedicated battery-powered vehicle by the very awkward “Mustang-inspired electric SUV” moniker, the vehicle to be unveiled ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show has a real name and some traditionalists…

Ten years ago, Mark Fields became the first major automotive executive to walk onto a stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to announce a new product. Back then he was Ford’s president of the Americas and he joined Bill Gates during the…

Over the past several years of testing, Google ’s fleet of autonomous vehicles have been involved in a number of minor accidents, but up until now all of them were caused by human driven vehicles running into Google’s machines. That has now changed…

If someone were to ask which automaker offers more electric vehicle nameplates in America than any other, your first instinct would probably be Tesla. But note the qualifier in the question – nameplates. Tesla currently only has three, the Model S, X…

Back in the 1990s before wifi became ubiquitous in seemingly almost every device we use, there were other challengers for supremacy including ultra-wide-band (UWB). While UWB didn’t achieve mass adoption as the wireless connectivity system of choice,…

It seems that any company that is a leading internet search engine in its respective market, must also be developing automated driving (AD) technology. Following on the heels of the Google self-driving car project that eventually morphed into Waymo,…