by Fast Machines | Mar 17, 2017 | Exterior
Porsche has an exciting new drivetrain on its hands: the 680-hp twin-turbocharged V-8 hybrid setup from the impressive new Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid. So it would be remiss to limit that gasoline-electric goodness to only one model, right? Right. Speaking to...
by Fast Machines | Mar 17, 2017 | Auto News
Forget the wheel, Ford wants to reinvent the cup holder. The American automaker filed a patent application on September 10, 2015 for a “beverage cup holder convertible to self-venting ash tray,” which was published on March 16, 2017. Basically, the cup holder body...
by Fast Machines | Mar 17, 2017 | Fast And Dangerous
Ever since it arrived in 2012, the Toyota 86 has always been the sports car that had enough, but still left a lot of people wanting more. It’s the equivalent of a solid basketball team that’s one player away from being a true contender. Toyota knows all about this,...
by Fast Machines | Mar 17, 2017 | Fast And Dangerous
Ford has announced it is introducing new technology that can detect pedestrians at night and then automatically brake if a driver doesn’t heed initial audible and visual warnings. The system will be introduced in the next-generation Ford Fiesta in Europe later this...
by Fast Machines | Mar 17, 2017 | Exterior
When the 2017 Mercedes-Benz E-class debuted last year, it broke with tradition by its inclusion of a new-to-Mercedes suite of semi-autonomous hardware and capabilities. This was strange because, for decades, every new technology to spring from Benz’s imagination—from...
