Hyundai is the first auto maker to embrace Groupon, but don’t get too excited.
The Groupon deal, offered to Hyundai customers in Chicago over the last weekend, consisted of an oil change, inspection and tire rotation for $29. Roughly 1,300 people signed up for the deal, enough for the auto maker to call it a success.
“If the …
It’s wider, lower, and longer, and Volkswagen says it’ll do up to 40 on the highway or 29 in the city: Meet the new 2012 Beetle, a sleek, slightly flatter, still curvy head-turner Volkswagen AG calls its “most fuel-efficient Beetle ever.”
It’s still a Beetle of course, it just looks a trifle sportier–less like a fat little …
The Battlestar Galactica had no networked computers for the simple reason that they might allow the Cylons to take control of the ship. You might want to think about that next time you pop in a burned CD into your car’s stereo system.
Computer security researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Washington have successfully …
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As part of my research for this week’s TIME.com column on tech-savvy cars, I got to spend a few days test-driving a 2012 Ford Focus Titanium hatchback that was decked out with MyFord Touch, an advanced infotainment system with an 8-inch color touchscreen, voice input and output, Bluetooth, multiple jacks for hooking up external devices, …
Plenty of us spend hours using our laptops, smartphones, gaming consoles and other gadgets. They come with us everywhere, and when they malfunction or break, it’s often hard to go on without replacing them immediately. But can you actually be in love with a possession? Researchers at Arizona State University say it’s possible.
It’s …
These daily deals sites have officially gone too far! Or perhaps they’re just going to one-up each other until they’re all giving away spaceship rides for pennies on the dollar.
Whatever the case, Gilt Groupe will be selling three 2011 Volkswagen Jettas for $5,995 apiece this week. The company got to that figure by lopping the number …
Your car is a big computer of sorts, your cell phone is a small computer of sorts; why not connect the two? That’s the promise of AutoBot, a $300 device that hooks into your vehicle’s OBD-II connector and relays diagnostic information to your cell phone, integrates with mapping functions, and lets you start and unlock your car …
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The Ford Motor Company may be a hundred and seven years old, but when it comes to cool gadgetry, it’s impressively spry for a company of its age. For several years, it’s poured effort into its Sync and MyFord Touch ecosystem, which puts a ton of entertainment- and information-related features into the dashboards of Fords and Lincolns, …
If you own a car and you’re sick—SICK!—of watching it lazily sit out on your street while you’re not driving it, you can make it earn its keep by renting it out by the hour, a la ZipCar.
While there’s no shortage of ZipCar competitors, Getaround appears to be one of the newest. The service is still in beta but offers car owners the
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When is a Pixar movie not a Pixar movie? When it’s produced by Disney-contracted third parties in India, apparently. Bleeding Cool has discovered that Planes, the planned direct-to-DVD spin-off from Pixar’s Cars, won’t be produced by Emeryville’s favorite animators after all, but instead originate in Disney Toon Studios, where the …
Yes, I know that Toy Story 3 is making Disney a lot of money, and that it gave Pixar their most successful opening weekend ever and everything, but the news that Tim Allen is already under contract for a Toy Story 4 fills me with something approaching dread. Can’t three movies be enough? If a trilogy is good enough for The Lord of The …
Auto enthusiasts may know Gordon Murray best as the guy who designed the McLaren F1 but the rest of us will all eventually know him better for the T.25, a $9,000 compact car that measures just four feet wide by eight feet long, can drive two to a lane, and fit three to a standard parking spot.
Oh, and it gets 74 miles to the …
