by Fast Machines | May 25, 2017 | Exterior
DETROIT – Jim Hackett spent the last year plotting Ford’s long-term self-driving car strategy. In his first week as chief executive, he has more immediate concerns: stopping a skid in North American sales and fending off a market share grab by resurgent...
by Fast Machines | May 25, 2017 | Fast And Dangerous
From the June 2017 issue Over a 26-year career at Lotus, Matt Becker has had a hand in the chassis tuning of approximately 50 vehicles, although he can talk publicly about only a handful of them. The various automakers that contracted Lotus through the years typically...
by Fast Machines | May 25, 2017 | Formula One Blog
In this post-Boaty McBoatface landscape, you’d think any company putting together a social media campaign would be aware that the public cannot, can absolutely not, be trusted to behave in the manner you would like them to. Walkers Crisps, however, seem to have...
by Fast Machines | May 25, 2017 | Spares
Cars are getting safer. A new report identified 11 different car and SUV models in which no one died over a four year period. That’s the highest number of models without a single fatality ever recorded by this survey. The report, from the Insurance Institute for...
by Fast Machines | May 25, 2017 | Exterior
Far from the sleek and futuristic concept cars often showcased by automakers, the first iterations of self-driving vehicles to reach the road may be no more glamorous than garbage trucks. That’s because they may literally be garbage trucks. Volvo has started work on...