Tag: reality check
Reality Check: Volvo XC90 Lounge Console
At Auto Shanghai, Volvo showed us their new ultra luxury full-sized SUV, the XC90 Excellence. But they also showed a conceptual Lounge Console that raises the stakes. To be a chauffeur-driven and pampered passenger...
Reality Check: The Fiat 500X Blue Pill
Last week during the Super Bowl, the automakers made a game themselves by vying to offer up the punchiest commercials. This is the one that got my attention the most. It should be no shock that Fiat used cheeky hum...
Reality Check: Mercedes-Benz changes model naming
In our Reality Check this week, Mercedes-Benz makes news by re-designing the way it names its cars. With many new models and staggering choices in power-train types like hybrids, diesels, electrics, fuel cells, Mer...
Reality Check: 2017 Ford Super Duty Frame Test
In our Reality Check, those crazy truck guys are at it again with huge cranes and circus acts to show us how tough the 2017 Ford Super Duty actually is. Ford unveiled their new F-Series Super Duty pickups at the Te...
Reality Check: Four-Cylinder Luxury Sedan Club
Call it a sign of the times or a sign of technology, but if you've been looking at a luxury sedan lately you noticed something new under all their hoods. BMW has long been known for their silky inline six. Competit...
Reality Check: Chrysler August Sales Success
In our Reality Check this week, we bring you a success story about of all companies, Chrysler. While the Dodge, Chrysler, Ram and Fiat brands have had their challenges in the past few years while digging themselves...
Reality Check: 2015 Ford F-150 Electric Vehicle
In our Reality Check segment this week Ford has once again shown they are on the bleeding edge of the light pickup truck market. As if aluminum bodies and EcoBoost turbocharged engines weren't enough, Ford announce...
Reality Check: Dodge Brothers Ad Campaign
In our reality check segment this week we look at the new Dodge brothers ad campaign in which Dodge celebrates the life and imagery of the Dodge brothers with their new muscle cars. The Dodge brothers ad campaign t...
Reality Check: 2015 Mustang Unites
As the 2015 Mustang is rolling out across American magazine covers and dealerships this week, we're reminded that this new pony is now a global horse. This week a collaboration between artist Burton Morris and Ford...
Reality Check: Ford Adaptive Steering
- Ford is bringing to market in the next 12 months a new motorized steering wheel they say will make vehicles easier to maneuver at low speeds and at higher speeds more agile and fun to drive. - Called Adaptive Ste...
