The massive land yachts of the that rolled off of Detroit assembly lines until about 1980 are mostly gone. Mostly, that's a good thing. They handled like crap, took up a lot of space in parking lots, and guzzled gas.
Ferrari-Branded Audio System Has Ferrari-esque Price Tag
Ferrari has teamed up with Meridian for a some Auto Branding Adventures with the F80 home entertainment system. And by "home entertainment system," we really mean it's just a glorified clock-radio. The details are limited but it seems this home entertainment system has radio, CD and auxiliary input support. Probably the…
New Prototype Control System Tracks Cars' Internals
First it was computer diagnosis codes, then it was diagnostic computers reading fill-on data streams. Now, RIFD technology is being used in a new a computer-control system that can head-off hardware problems. The system — built into a Fiat Stilo — was developed by engineers at the UK's University of Cambridge.…
Where In The World Is My GPS?: Thieves Targeting Car GPS Units
Watch your gadgets and gizmos kids. A critical intersection of cars equipped with tracking systems and the desire for portability of stolen goods may have finally been reached. According to USA Today, the new black of car thievery is stealing the gadgets people leave in cars like GPS/Nav systems, cell phones,…
Porsche's See-Through Cayenne
German Car Fans pointed us toward Porsche's "transparent" Cayenne, a lab on wheels the company will use to demonstrate and refine its internal electronics systems. The company says engineers' use of the naked Cayenne can speed development of new models' byzantine on-board control systems by roughly a year — a big…
