Driverless cars and heightened road-safety technology unveiled at Las Vegas tech show. Prop up your feet and check your email in peace. Not in the back of a limo, but in your very own 4-door sedan! This reality might be a lot closer than you imagine. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Audi showed off new technology that would allow the car to handle the driving during slow …
Welcome to 2013! We are sure this year will be the best one yet, at least until 2014 rolls around! Some worries persist about the safety of car batteries in hybrid and electric cars. While there have been occasional concerns raised and incidents of electric cars catching on fire or exploding, by and large they are not more dangerous than conventional cars, reports Cars.com on the Chicago Tribune. No need to …
2012 LA Auto Show: November 30 – December 9 The LA Auto Show always lures the most stylish and innovative car designs to its exhibition hall. With California’s “zero-emission vehicle” mandate hanging over the industry’s head many car makers are responding with their own versions of electric-powered vehicles. The next best thing to actually flying to LA to enjoy the final weekend of the show is to read John Gilbert’s …
Giving Tuesday If Friday was Black Friday and Monday was Cyber Monday, maybe Tuesday should be Giving Tuesday? That’s the call going out across the US today. If you need a little charitable break after all the holiday spending splurges then take a look at our car donation page on CarSoup.com. Chevy Spark Coming Soon Car makers continue to bet on electric vehicles. The all-electric Chevrolet Spark will by on …
Classic Cars May Be Banned In City of Lights The Mayor of Paris wants to ban all cars manufactured before 1997 fromt he city center, reports Reuters.com. While it’s designed to cut down on air pollution in the city, critics claim it will make it even harder for poor people to live and work in the capital. It would certainly also put a damper on classic car fans enthusiasm for …
Used Car Prices Will Continue to Go Up After Superstorm Sandy Hundreds of thousands of cars were flooded during the devastating storm and this will impact used car prices across the country. While this will initially be reflected by regions closest to the flooding, it will later spread throughout the rest of the country as well. Keep this in mind if you’re wondering about the best time to enter the …
The CarSoup Car Shopping App was a big success, and we’re thrilled by the response we’ve gotten! Beautiful, easy to use, stuffed with useful information and the perfect companion for any car buying trip: these were the way we wanted our users to describe the app, and we knew we couldn’t stop there with our first edition. So now we’ve added even more search tools, attached more information to every …
Jalopnik’s Favorite SEMA Vehicle 2012 SEMA, the annual Las Vegas tradeshow highlighting the fantastic world of specialty automotive products, has been running all week. It’s a great place to see awesome conversions and interesting new cars. It probably comes as a surprise as much to the editors of Jalopnik as it does to us, but the VW Vortex Beetle was the 2012 SEMA vehicle that made the biggest impression on them. It’s …
