You know that study that just came out declaring “the end of the driving boom,” because Gen Y supposedly doesn’t care about cars?
Ignore it.
The 69-page study by the Frontier Group and the Public Interest Research Group is just another case of inside-the-beltway thinking attempting to drive public policy decisions. Or using statistics to ignore the real causal evidence for why something is happening.
Aston Martin unveiled today the one-off CC100 Speedster concept at the Nürburgring Nordschleife during an ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of race. The CC100 also completed a lap around the extreme Nürburgring together with the iconic 1000km race-winning 1959 DBR1 with British racing legend Sir Stirling Moss at the wheel.
BMW has more goodies for the Asian market. This time Malaysia is the one to benefit from the boon coming from the M division of the German car maker.
Milwakee’s FOX6 Contact 6 discovered thousands of cars on Wisconsin roads with hidden dangers, and more that were sold before they were fixed — cars with open safety records, and salesmen who didn’t seem to consider this a big deal.FOX6?s Contact 6 took a hidden camera into car dealerships and found some hidden dangers that not even salespeople know about.
Carfax provides vehicle history reports to consumers, and warns that 52,000 cars are for sale in Wisconsin with open recalls and potentially dangerous defects — defects that drivers think dealers should be taking care of.
In this March 6, 2008 photo, Ford Ka cars are assembled in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. The Ford Ka hatchback sold in Europe scored a high safety rating of four out of five stars.
The cars roll endlessly off the local assembly lines of the industry’s biggest automakers, more than 10,000 a day, into the eager hands of Brazil’s new middle class. The shiny new Fords, Fiats and Chevrolets tell the tale of an economy in full bloom that now boasts the fourth largest auto market in the world.
