Category: Forbes

I’m going to say right up front, I’m a fan of Mazda. As one of the smaller mainstream global automakers, the brand faces enormous challenges in a changing market landscape. Despite that, they soldier on making interesting new products and staying in…

In the late 2000s, there were several so-called “box” cars that came to market in the U.S. including the Nissan Cube and the Scion xB. However, only one ever really held any appeal for me personally and it’s now the only one left on sale here, the…

The best way to experience a great sports car is on a long and winding road. Over the years, few cars have had a longer road with more twists and turns along the way than the second-generation Acura NSX. The NSX has had at least two major…

2020 marks 30 years since the first time I ever drove a BMW. In fact, that was the first time I even sat in one. That first exposure was to the brand’s flagship at the time, the V12-powered 850i coupe. My most recent BMW ride was again in the brand’s…

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,…

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,…

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…

Over the past half-decade, countless startups have appeared on the landscape with the hope of disrupting the more-than-century-old automotive industry with automated driving. Increasingly, those small players are getting gobbled up by the incumbents…

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…

Ever since a mid-1980s corporate reorganization, General Motors has been on a path toward a consolidation of its once diverse powertrain operations. For the better part of the past decade that process has included bringing all of its powertrain…