Posts by: Scott Webb

All-New BMW 7 Series Offers Remote Parking and Other Luxuries

The new BMW 7 Series won’t be in dealerships until late 2015 at the earliest, which means the automaker has plenty of time to whet the public’s appetite with teaser videos like the one at the end of this post.... Before we show you some of the cool luxury features for the next-generation 7 Series, allow us to briefly summarize BMW’s recent announcements. Most notably, the 2016 BMW 7 Series is th

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BMW Sees Your Driving Future with Augmented Vision Glasses

If you were told that a pair of glasses could help operate your vehicle, you might think that person was either crazy or a time traveller from the future. Or maybe you just haven’t heard about BMW’s augmented vision prototype. Mini, a UK division of BMW, revealed its Augmented Vision concept, a pair of augmented reality driving glasses that allow drivers to see vehicle information typically found

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BMW Doubles Down on Production of its Green Car Award Winning i8

Sales of the BMW i8were brisk in 2014—after all, the BMW Group sold out of every i8 vehicle it manufactured last year—and they have continued to sell well in the first few months of 2015. So with that level of success, it only makes sense for BMW to keep giving customers what they want. According to Green Car Reports, BMW plans on doubling sales of its “i” plug-in electric

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Honda Odyssey Sails to the Top of U.S. News’ Best Family Cars List

In Homer’s Odyssey, it took Odysseus twenty years to return home to Ithaca after fighting in the Trojan War. In about the same span of time, U.S. News & World Report has named the Honda Odysseyhas been named Best Minivan for Families for the fifth consecutive year. We’ll leave it to you to decide which is the more impressive achievement. The 2015 Honda Odyssey also made U.S. News&r

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Play Pac-Man on Your Local Streets Thanks to Google Maps

Is it an April Fools’ Day trick or a sweet gaming treat? Google must employ a few fans of classic arcade games, which would explain why you can now play Pac-Man on Google Maps. The game play is fiendishly simple: once you’re on Google Maps, find your area of the country and then click on the Pac-Man icon on the bottom left corner of the screen. From there, your streets will be littered with yello

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Kia Soul EV to Make its Lone Star State Debut This June

By popular demand, the Kia Soul EVwill be sold in five states this summer: Georgia, Hawaii, Oregon, Texas and Washington. Kia’s announcement comes on the heels of the successful launch of the Soul EV in California in late 2014. According to Kia, customers in these states "expressed significant interest"in the Soul EV. There would appear to be an electric vehicle infrastructure capable of sup

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