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One-Off Ford Probe I Ghia Concept Destroyed In A Fire After Pebble Beach Display

Carscoops

Quick thinking by the driver prevented the fire from spreading to nearby vegetation. Ford’s concept wasn’t just ahead of its time in terms of design, but the cabin was also very advanced, featuring touch-sensitive switches, a keycard ignition system, and an electronic entertainment system.

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From the archive: Samsung's big bid to make cars

Autocar

By the time its founder died in 1987, it was a big name in heavy industry, engineering and electronics – and his heir recognised that the car industry was essentially a combination of the three. Actually, the disaster to come wasn’t really its fault.

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How the AU Falcon very nearly became a global luxury car | Drive Flashback

Drive.com

It’s been going on in the consumer electronics and whitegoods markets for years. One of the benefits of globalisation for car buyers is the ability to get more, and hopefully better, technology at the same price (or sometimes even lower in terms of price versus salary) as the previous model. Now cars are going the same way.

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Why the 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N is more than just a fast EV

Drive.com

Aside from the fully electric 478kW/770Nm dual-motor drivetrain, we’ve got adaptive damping and around 25 separate electronic components that influence the driving experience. This way, the electronic tuning can be used to further accentuate and polish, rather than cover up and fix. of a millimetre change (at at time).”

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2025 Hyundai Tucson Hybrid review

CarExpert

As we have found in other Hyundai and Kia models running this software, it’s easy to use and snappy in terms of response and animations. There’s connected navigation with live traffic updates and send-to-car address input via your smartphone – this is included from the mid-spec Elite, as is the 12.3-inch

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2024 Defender 110 P400e X-Dynamic SE review

CarExpert

That number, of course, is spread across the 90 three-door, the 110 five-door, and the most recent arrival, the extended Defender 130 Across all grades the powertrain offering has changed over the few years since its introduction, with adjustments to the combustion model lines a constant consideration for consumers.

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2024 Volkswagen Amarok Style V6 review

Drive.com

While Australia’s ute-centric buying behaviour may have helped shift the showroom spread away from passenger cars (in 2014 the Golf made up almost 36 per cent of Volkswagen sales compared to less than 7 per cent today), despite its strong performance within the brand the Amarok is not as popular with buyers as it should be.

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