To achieve the organization’s fresh Top Safety Pick Plus rating, a two thousand fourteen model car had to have good ratings in its crash tests. That includes the institute’s harsh fresh “puny overlap” test, which simulates hitting a tree or light pole with one corner of the car. (more…)
September Four, two thousand seventeen
Electrified vehicles are still uncommon sightings on most roads today. But in a duo of decades, more than a third of all passenger cars will run on batteries — not on gasoline or diesel, analysts say.
Around five hundred thirty million electrified vehicles could zip calmly along the world’s streets and highways by 2040, Bloomberg Fresh Energy Finance (BNEF) said on Thursday in a fresh report. (more…)
Podcasts (along with subtitled films and series) are a fine way to learn Spanish with a Learn Spanish Podcast and listen to slow Spanish news that are especially useful for improving your oral comprehension. When it comes to memorization, however, podcasts aren’t as effective as the spaced repetition system (used in MosaLingua applications), but you can listen to them while doing something else, like driving or ironing, for example. (more…)
Welcome to Critic’s Notebook, a quick and off-the-cuff car review consisting of impressions, jottings, and marginalia regarding whatever The Drive writers happen to be driving. Today’s edition: The two thousand seventeen Mazda3 5-Door Grand Touring. (more…)
Many SUVs, a track, a runway, a quarry, a shopping centre and a dog. Let the testing begin
Where does a crossover end and an SUV or an off-roader begin? Damned if we know. What we do know is that “SUV” has become the adopted label for a rash of high-riding, ruggedised cars that span mildly jacked-up superminis to seven-seaters capable of fording the Amazon. (more…)