Automobiles

We see run-out, decaying, junky vehicles in the front yards, in fields, tow yards, auto auction again yards, junkyards, and sell-off regions set apart for this purpose. In Hawaii, the Big Island, we saw regions where the motors had been piled up. On an island, it’s…

If Norman Foster’s design for a new London bus to replace the Routemaster really does happen in 2012, it’ll be a first. Not the first London bus to ever arrive on time, but the first time an architect has successfully designed a motor vehicle. The fact is, while…

The automobile clubs that called for Max Mosley to resign as president of the FIA were last night digesting the governing body’s decision to keep the 68-year-old in his post and warned they could ultimately decide to leave the organization. Following the Allgemeiner…

Given its heavy reliance on raw materials and legislative duties that emphasize the reuse and recycling of end-of-life vehicles, Europe’s automotive industry is perfectly positioned to accelerate the agenda around closed-loop thinking. Renault’s Choisy-le-Roi…

It’s a warm, dry afternoon in the mountains of Coto de Caza, a gated community located an hour’s drive southeast of Los Angeles, and Major General William Lyon is showing me a used car. “It’s wonderful to drive,” he says. “As though it were new.” Parked in…

SUVs get a bad rap. Hulking great gas-guzzlers, they clog up city streets, belch out CO2, and depreciate faster than the spinning price digits on a petrol pump. Now car manufacturers are wising up. With regulators pushing them to cut tailpipe emissions and consumers worried…

In contrast, television, which comes to you, the oldest form of drama demands that audiences go to it. The spread of NT Live and other performance broadcasts means that the venue is now as likely to be a cinema as a theatre. One of the pieces of theatre screened in…

Showing off his stunning collection of classic automobiles, Dmitry Lomakov explains why Russians love Nazi cars. “They are symbols of Russia’s victory,” he says. “For Russians, the second world war isn’t a historical event. For us, it happened…

Gilles Vesco calls it the “new mobility.” It’s a vision of cities in which residents no longer rely on their cars but on public transport, shared cars and bikes, and, above all, on real-time data on their smartphones. He anticipates a revolution that will transform not…