The Auto World

A host of car manufacturers have confirmed that they will air commercials during Super Bowl LVI, including the likes of General Motors, Kia, BMW , Nissan, and Toyota. BMW’s commercial could prove to be particularly significant as the automaker hasn’t advertised during the Super Bowl since 2015. That commercial featured former Today Show hosts Katie Couric and Bryant Bumbel and promoted the BMW i3. The German car manufacturer won’t reveal what the focus of this year’s commercial will be but it is very likely that it will have at least some focus on the brand’s EVs. Watch Also: Searches For Cadillac Surge After Super Bowl Commercials Nissan signaled its return to Super Bowl advertising with a new spot called “Thrill Driver,” which is set up as an action-packed, comedy-thriller movie premiere. It stars the brand’s new Z sports coupe. General Motors will also air a commercial during the Super Bowl for a third consecutive year. It too has failed to provide details about the comm...

We’ve seen some weird mishmash cars over the years, however this weird Nissan 200SX might just take the cake. This bizarre 200SX has been listed up for sale by B. Verstappen Bedrijfswagens (no relation to F1 champion Max Verstappen) in the Netherlands. From the front, it looks like any other 200SX but from the rear, things take a turn for the worse. For some strange reason, the owner of this 200SX somehow thought it would look good with the rear fascia of a C5 Corvette . It doesn’t. While it is hard to know if this is a genuine C5 rear end, it certainly looks like the real thing and is at odds with the rest of the car’s design. Watch Also: Fondly Remembering The Nissan Silvia (And 240SX We Got Stateside) In its day, the C5 Corvette was a very cool car but that doesn’t mean its design gels with that of the 200SX. This is especially apparent by the fact that the ‘Vette’s rear bumper is way too big for the Nissan and sticks out like a sore thumb. It really looks as though someone...

2021 in particular felt like the year of highly customized classics. Tuning has become a refined art since the Singers and the Ringbrothers of the world have come to prominence. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t still annoying trends. There are a few that annoy me, personally. Massive wheels on classic cars frustrate me, ugly and overly aggressive body kits for more recent models inspire confusion in me, an overreliance on carbon fiber fills me with contempt, while uninspired car choices bore me. A recent celebrity car, though, has reminded me of one of the tuning trend I find the most irritating. It was while covering Kevin Hart’s newly completed 1969 Plymouth Road Runner that I realized that I just don’t like engine bays that are so clean they look anonymous. Read More:  Check Out Kevin Hart’s New Custom ’69 Plymouth Road Runner With A 940-HP Hellephant V8 This is a trend that’s been around forever and, to an extent, I understand the impulse to clean up the engine bay a l...

Driving brings with it all kinds of risks but one risk we had never thought of having to deal with is a towbar falling off the car traveling in front of you. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened to a motorist in Australia in late January and the entire thing was caught on dashcam . During the clip, the cammer can be seen traveling behind a Toyota Hilux on the South Eastern Freeway in South Australia. They are driving at a very safe distance from the Hilux but not even that helped them as at the 7-second mark of the video, the towbar of the Hilux can be seen falling off. It bounces off the road multiple times, somersaulting through the air before slamming into the windshield of the cammer. Read More: 2022 Toyota Hilux GR Sport Debuts In Europe With A New Face And Tweaked Suspension The force of the impact doesn’t just crack the windshield but rips a massive hole in it and the towbar itself knocks the dashcam off its mounting. Had any occupants inside the car been hit by th...

Foxconn’s chairman Young Lu said that Lordstown Motors will start getting its electric pickup trucks to customers in the second half of 2022. Lu made his comments during an online speech at Foxconn’s year-end event, reports Nikkei Asia . Promising an exceptional but challenging start to the year, he was unequivocal about Lordstown’s manufacturing future. “Electric pick-ups made in cooperation with Lordstown will begin shipping in the second of this year,” he said earlier this month. Just a few days later, Lordstown posted a photo of a trio of pre-production test vehicles on Facebook. Read Also:  Foxconn And Lordstown Motors Deal Official, Ohio Factory Goes To Apple Component Manufacturer “Endurance pre-production is underway,” Lordstown wrote in the post. “Thanks to our collaboration with Foxconn, our pre-production vehicles are rolling out of assembly and into diverse testing environments. This will enable us to both prove and refine the durability, connectivity, and maneuv...

Skoda today unveiled a new body style for its all-electric SUV, the Enyaq iV, named – you guessed it, Enyaq Coupe iV With a coupe-style roof, the new variant also adds power to the lineup by introducing the automaker’s sporty RS (or vRS, as it’s known in the UK), brand to its electric crossover series. Offered in three trim levels, the new MEB-based Skoda Enyaq Coupe iV gets improved aerodynamic efficiency thanks to its raked roof. It offers the EV a drag coefficient of 0.234, which is an improvement over the standard model . Combined with the lower weight of the vehicle, it gets improved range. In its lowest-power trim, the RWD Enyaq Coupe iV 80, the 82kWh (77kWh net) battery allows the vehicle to go up to 339 miles (545 km) per charge on the WLTP test cycle, up from 330 miles (531 km) for the Enyaq iV 80. Its single motor produces 201 hp (204 PS/150 kW). Read Also:  2022 VW ID.5 Is A Coupe-ified Electric SUV With A Sporty GTX Variant Both the Enyaq Coupe iV 80x and the...