The hits just keep on coming for the auto industry. Mitsubishi now joins a rogues gallery of auto companies including General Motors and Volkswagen who have misled the public about the cars they sell.
Unless you're a close follower of auto or tech news, you could be forgiven for not knowing that Tesla Motors is set to unveil a new, more relatively affordable electric car later tonight, the Model 3 (the event kicks-off around 8:30 p.m. Pacific/11:30 p.m. Eastern and you can livestream it on Tesla's website here). The Elon Musk-founded company's previous offerings — the Tesla Roadster, the Model S and its variants, the Model X crossover-style electric SUV — have all started just out of reach of the mass market (the Model S around $70,000, these days).
The flag has dropped on the 26th running of the Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles du Maroc, as the competition is officially known. More than 160 teams from 14 countries in 4 classes have entered the all-women's rally, and each team has a driver and navigator, as you'd expect in any rally.
Intersections are imperfect valves. Car traffic is a haphazard combination of moving bodies, flowing through channels and occasionally stopping to let other streams pass. If you think of traffic, not as people and goods in cars, but as a fluid, it makes no sense that cars spend so much time standing still.
Wheels are straight lines bent towards motion. Spinning on axles, they transport cars long, linear distances, arcing gently for lane changes or at sharp angles or hard turns, yet always moving forward in a line. It is a form so perfected that “reinventing the wheel” is synonymous with “unnecessary work”. Last week, at the Geneva International Motor Show, tiremaker Goodyear ignored conventional wisdom and showed off their concept wheel reinvention: spheres.
Spyker's motto is Nulla tenacia invia est via, or “For the tenacious, no road is impassable.” It's a motto the Dutch supercar company must really take to heart, because after several years of financial troubles, it's back with a new model at the 2016 Geneva International Motor Show.
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