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ROAD TRIP: Shalom Y'all, Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience to Open in New Orleans Fall 2020

ROAD TRIP: Shalom Y'all, Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience to Open in New Orleans Fall 2020

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 12, 2020 -- Officials with the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE) announced the new museum will open in fall 2020 in New Orleans. ... Continue reading

Letter From Europe - SUV's Tame, Rough, Cheap, Expensive...But All Good

Letter From Europe - SUV's Tame, Rough, Cheap, Expensive...But All Good

I’ve just returned from a quick skiing weekend at Northstar courtesy of Mitsubishi’s 2020 Outlander Sport 2.4 liter GT AWC. ... Continue reading

Jeep Gladiator First Desert Rated Jeep 4x4

Jeep Gladiator First Desert Rated Jeep 4x4

Jeep® Desert Rated vehicles represent the ultimate in high-speed off-road capability and performance in grueling desert and sand environments All-new Gladiator Mojave is first Jeep vehicle to earn brand’s newly minted Desert Rated badge Industry-exclusive FOX hydraulic jounce bumpers and 2.5-inch internal bypass sho ... Continue reading

2020 Toyota Corolla Road Trip Review By Larry Nutson

2020 Toyota Corolla Road Trip Review By Larry Nutson

2020 Toyota Corolla Dixie Highway Road Trip By Larry Nutson Executive Editor and Bureau Chief Chicago Bureau The Auto Channel (DSC_6154) On the invite of Toyota I was making a road trip from my Chicago home to Evansville, Indiana. It would take about five hours. ... Continue reading

Car Makers Hope...Consumers Say Nope to Self-Driving and Electric Vehicle Offerings

Car Makers Hope...Consumers Say Nope to Self-Driving and Electric Vehicle Offerings

According to the J.D. Power 2019 Q4 Mobility Confidence Index Study fueled by SurveyMonkey Audience,SM released today, the Mobility Confidence Index remains 36 (on a 100-point scale) for self-driving vehicles and 55 for battery-electric vehicles for a third consecutive quarter. ... Continue reading

Hyundai Veloster Most Fun To Drive

Hyundai Veloster Most Fun To Drive

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 21, 2020 – Today, Cars.com awarded the 2020 Hyundai Veloster N with the 2020 Most Fun-to-Drive Car of the Year award, an accolade given annually to a model that’s defined by how fun it is to drive, on the racetrack or off. ... Continue reading

Toyota and Joby Aviation are Flying to New Heights Together

Toyota and Joby Aviation are Flying to New Heights Together

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (January 15, 2020) Toyota is exploring a new flight path for mobility through a new collaboration with Joby Aviation (Joby), an aerospace company that is developing and commercializing all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to enable the deployment of fast, quiet and affordable a ... Continue reading

Washington, D.C. Surpasses Baltimore to Secure Top Spot on Orkin's 2020 Bed Bug Cities List

Washington, D.C. Surpasses Baltimore to Secure Top Spot on Orkin's 2020 Bed Bug Cities List

ATLANTA, Jan. 13, 2020 -- Washington, D.C. is ringing in the new decade as the number one city on Orkin's Top 50 Bed Bug Cities list. ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz 2020 Caravan

Mercedes-Benz 2020 Caravan

Stuttgart. This year’s Mercedes booth at the Caravan, Motor and Tourism (CMT) exhibition is all about connectivity. ... Continue reading

Henny Hemmes Champion Race Driver, Automotive Journalist and Our Friend Passed Away in 2019 - Rust Zacht Henny Rust Zacht

Henny Hemmes Champion Race Driver, Automotive Journalist and Our Friend Passed Away in 2019 - Rust Zacht Henny Rust Zacht

Louisville, KY May 2, 2019; It is with great sadness and tears that I am reporting that Henny Hemmes, our friend, collegue, mentor, teacher and creative partner has passed away. Henny was always more than a journalist to all of us here at The Auto Channel, she was a real hero...a pioneer in women's rights who used her ... Continue reading

Uber and Hyundai Motor Announce Aerial Ridesharing Partnership

Uber and Hyundai Motor Announce Aerial Ridesharing Partnership

The air vehicle concept Hyundai released today was created in part through Uber’s open design process, a NASA-inspired approach that jump-starts innovation by publicly releasing vehicle design concepts so any company can use them to innovate their air taxi models and engineering technologies. ... Continue reading

2019 Kia Sorento Review by Larry Nutson - It's E15 Approved

2019 Kia Sorento Review by Larry Nutson - It's E15 Approved

The heated seats and heated steering wheel were immediately put into service. ... Continue reading

2019 Jeep Renegade Review by John Heilig - It's E15 Approved +VIDEO

2019 Jeep Renegade Review by John Heilig - It's E15 Approved +VIDEO

It may carry the Jeep name, but the Renegade is really a Fiat 500X and as such serves only to detract from the classic Jeep name. ... Continue reading

New Car Review: 2019 Infiniti QX80 Luxury Flagship SUV, Review by Larry Nutson

New Car Review: 2019 Infiniti QX80 Luxury Flagship SUV, Review by Larry Nutson

SUVs are hot. Big SUVs too. Low gasoline prices help that. And, if you need lots of space for people and stuff as many younger families do these days, why not go big? My older daughter drives a large SUV. When she visits us in Chicago the rear cargo area is loaded to the gills with all the things she needs for two todd ... Continue reading

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