Nissan’s ad campaign for the Frontier has the pickup engaging in absurd and impossible stunts like snowboarding, dune-riding and catching an airplane wheel in the bed of the truck. The commercials are, in word, terrible. Let’s use physics to show you why.
Watching Nissan’s series of wildly hyperbolic ads for their Frontier pickup, it’s hard not to imagine  … More
It seems as though Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz’s AMG performance division have money to spend. The two companies have reportedly shown interest in shelling out as much as $1.32 billion to put their names on a famed two-wheeled Italian speed machine.
The owner of Italian motorbike company Ducati has put the brand up for sale for a cool 1 billion euros, ($1.32 billion U.S. dollars), and although the asking price is  … More
Henry Ford may have popularized the American car, but it was legendary General Motors Designer Harley Earl who, through his concepts, made it sexy. One example — the Corvette’s twin brother, the Oldsmobile F-88 — was so desirable, Earl secretly crated the entire concept car out of GM and shipped it, piece-by-piece, to his friend and former competitor
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If you’re walking into a new-car showroom on a shopping trip, you should brace yourself for a little sticker shock. Not only have prices reached a new high, they’re outpacing inflation — and reversing the deals Americans grew accustomed to over the past decade.
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