There’s a movement among automotive enthusiasts. In recent years, fewer models have offered manual transmissions. These folks, who are rather passionate, insist the manual transmission is one of the golden elements of any true, thoroughbred car. They lament this decline in the manual transmission. Some, even, with the passion of losing a cherished item. Many […]
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Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with the CEO and Chairman of Barrett-Jackson Auction Company, Craig Jackson. Craig is the son of Barrett-Jackson co-founder Russ Jackson, and revered among car enthusiasts. Barrett-Jackson auctions are where the rarest and best of automotive gems are found, admired, and sold. Earlier in May, Barrett-Jackson completed their
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Google recently had, in all likelihood, a worst case scenario happen to one of their self-driving cars. On Feburary 14th, one of the Google SUVs, which roam the streets of southern California, crashed into a city bus. Headlines were made, critics are gleefully calling victories, and Google’s PR is on the defensive. But how big
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Dieselgate scandal continues to deepen as more details slowly come into focus. Volkswagen has long claimed that it initially came to know about the widespread cheating its TDI engines when widespread results were made known. This was despite repeated inquiries from the EPA, going as far back as 2013. Executive management has stuck to the
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This year, in an unusually mild October, Canadian journalists covering the entire nation gathered for the annual AJAC test fest. AJAC is the Automotive Journalist Associate of Canada. AJAC’s test fest is an onslaught of the current models, across all categories, that manufacturers currently have on offer. Cars, truck, SUVs and luxury vehicles are all
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