Ian Wright

Jan 19, 2025 | carbuzz.com | Ian Wright |Nicole Wakelin

Prices of new cars are $10,000 higher than they were five years ago, prior to the pandemic. Despite attractive incentives, shoppers still have to contend with high car prices, and the issue is more pronounced for first-time buyers on a tighter budget.

Jan 18, 2025 | carbuzz.com | Ian Wright

A video has surfaced on Instagram of what looks like the end of a well-known and extremely valuable Ferrari F40, which, unlike today's 296 GTB, for example, has no special electronic aids to save you from bad driving. From a camera behind, we see the F40 cruising along on a wet UK road, then we hear the driver give the twin-turbocharged V8 some throttle, then the Ferrari is on its side as it hits a lamp post. The whole incident takes just seven seconds to unfold on the A5 near York in the UK.

Jan 18, 2025 | carbuzz.com | Ian Wright

In a first for the United Kingdom, drivers recently went out in the darkness to experience sanctioned non-competitive high-speed driving on a racetrack with no artificial lighting.

Jan 18, 2025 | carbuzz.com | Ian Wright

In 2022, Toyota launched the all-electric bZ4X. Journalists rolled their eyes and made an effort while everyone else that read about it instantly forgot the name. The alphanumeric soup of a name represents Beyond Zero in reference to its emissions, 4 being how Toyota classifies the size of the vehicle, and X signifies that it's a crossover. However, Toyota has realized its mistake and its second electric crossover is called Urban Cruiser.

Jan 18, 2025 | carbuzz.com | Ian Wright

Mercedes-Benz and Google are making good on their partnership to enable drivers of the E-Class and other Mercs to have natural-language conversations with the MBUX Virtual Assistant to use Google Maps. Effectively, it gives new conversational capabilities to Mercedes' infotainment system to explore and use Google Maps Platform, including a memory, so the AI system can continue a conversation on a journey and reply in context.