Living with a car, if only for a week, exposes its most glaring faults. The tenth-generation Honda Civic doesn’t have many. It’s one of the most popular passenger cars and the nation’s top-selling compact car for the past nine years. But there had been one thing: A volume knob. Specifically, the lack of one. For […]
By Clifford Atiyeh Some automakers are abandoning sedans in the hope that car shoppers will simply move on to more popular crossovers and SUVs. Instead of giving up, Nissan has made the Altima—long one of its best-selling models—a class-leading car for 2019. Members of the New England Motor Press Association (NEMPA) gathered at their Boston […]
The 2019 New England International Auto Show kicked off today with media presentations from Toyota, Honda and FCA. Toyota provided an overview of the 2019 RAV4 Hybrid, the 2019 Prius AWD-e and the 2020 Corolla. Alex Darling, Toyota Vehicle Product Training Specialist talks about the 2019 RAV4. Now in its fifth generation, the 2019 RAV4 […]
By Bill Griffith PORTLAND, CT—You know him as “Roger,” the sometimes funny, sometimes curmudgeonly (and often both) 82-year-old ace mechanic on Velocity’s “Chasing Classic Cars.” He plays off show centerpiece Wayne Carini so well that you are immediately drawn into the nitty, gritty of the mechanical fixes. How well? So well that Roger rates an […]
The weather could not have been better for the 2018 NEMPA Ragtop Harbor Cruise and Ramble. The warm sun was only eclipsed by the feelings of being together again doing what we all love – catching up and experiencing the best the automotive industry has to offer. The legendary Ragtop Ramble is a top-down ride […]
By Bill Griffith The last thing most businesses want is more government regulation. Don’t count those working on the autonomous vehicle among them. “We need ‘Policy Help,’ ” says MIT researcher and administrator Bryan Reimer Ph.D. Reimer was the keynote speaker May 30 at the 8th annual NEMPA MIT Technology Conference at the university’s Media […]
