Daily Archives: April 28, 2013

New Range Rover Sport by Lumma Design

Range Rover Sport CLR RS by Lumma Design
The all-new Range Rover Sport is now available to order with prices starting from £51,500.

Epic Drive: Motor Trend visits Cuba, looks at classic American cars

Cuba is a great travel destination. It’s right next to Florida, though you can’t actually get there from Miami or Orlando because of the political “situation” with the U.S.

Expect self driving cars by 2025, expert tells SAE International World Congress

More autonomous driving technologies are on the way, but fully autonomous vehicles at the mass market level aren’t projected for the foreseeable future, experts said Tuesday at the Society of Automotive Engineers 2013 World Congress.”2025 is the time-frame where we see cars driving themselves,” said Christian Schumacher, head of Continental Automotive’s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems for the NAFTA region, echoing the rough timeline for fully autonomous vehicles projected by most in the industry.

But semi-autonomous vehicles, with technologies such as pedestrian recognition and traffic jam assist — where radar and camera technology help a vehicle keep pace with other vehicles and provide automated steering control to maintain lane presence — may be just a handful of years away.

Mercedes-Benz Citan scores only three stars in latest NCAP tests

Mercedes-Benz Citan

The new Mercedes-Benz Citan Kombi has scored three stars in the latest round of Euro NCAP tests. The organisation, which has revolutionised vehicle safety during the past 20 years, says that the Renault Kangoo-based medium sized van/MPV ‘fails to shine in a market segment poorly equipped for safety.’