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These Are the Cars You Should Buy Used

The Truth About Cars

We chat with Karl Brauer, iSeeCars executive analyst, about the cars you should buy new -- and those you'd be better off buying used. Matthew Guy also drops by and we discuss side marker lights and how last week's NASCAR race at Talladega once again ended with The Big One. As well as here.

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How Do Automakers Handle Politics?

The Truth About Cars

Not just to those employed in the industry (or in industry-adjacent jobs, like mine) but also to the car-buying public. Meanwhile, Matthew Guy joined us to discuss garage lighting for our "Stuff We Use" segment. You can find our podcasts at these links:& Spotify , Apple , Google , Amazon , and iHeart Radio. As well as here.

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The Tesla of vans? Renault and Volvo create Flexis to revolutionise electric light commercial vehicles

EV Central

Within the new van, Renault-Volvo bosses describe the new Flexis as a Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) with an operating system based on Google’s Android OS that allows fleet operators to integrate their own software into the van via the Google Cloud. The post The Tesla of vans?

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Stellantis: new hydrogen Ram Trucks will be made in Mexico

Baua Electric

I can’t help but think this is the correct take, especially in light of the fact that hydrogen has recently spiked over $30 per kg, and that a kilogram of hydrogen has about as much energy in it as a gallon of gas. Today you cannot buy hydrogen for less than 13 or 14 euros,” said MAN Trucks CEO, Alexander Vlaskamp.

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Flash Drive: 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV RST

Clean Fleet Report

With the rear seat folded flat, there is 10 feet of additional storage length, enough to handle a kayak, surfboard or SUP Walk-up and walk-away lighting sequences on the front and rear 10.2 When launching from a stop, the front end lifts a bit, the steering gets light and you get pushed back in the seat.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. 3.3), as did Apple Siri (3.4,

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

The Truth About Cars

Though he ignores the other reasons a wealthy person might buy a Bentley – style, creature comforts, as an indication of socioeconomic status, and so on. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be allowed to buy a car that has a high potential top speed. We don’t know why Villani owned a Bentley. I wish it didn’t happen, but it does.

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