Apple CarPlay and Android Auto 2016 Honda Accord includes both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on driving the nation. Davis Adams, Honda PR, explains to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, Driving the Nation how Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on driving work inside the 2016 Honda Accord. The 2016 Honda Accord is the first mass-produced vehicle [...]
A Naked Tesla in the wild Bosch stripped a Tesla Model S electric vehicle, brought in fifteen sensors, and lidar to create the first Model S P85 electric self-driving vehicle. We drove it last week in Boxberg, Germany. We got to see the future, and the future is not that far away. There is an [...]
Hiroshi Tamura, Nissan's chief product specialist for Nismo, the GT-R and Z talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, Driving the Nation about producing a 370Z NISMO Roadster like the concept that was unveiled at the Chicago auto show. Tamura knows that it is important to create the halo of performance inside the 370Z but also [...]
NISMO President Shoichi Miyatani talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, Driving the Nation about the Nismo NISsan MOtorsports) LMP1 race car that will make it's first appearance on a race track in June at Le Mans. 1991 was the last time a Japanese, Mazda, car company won the 24 hours of Le Mans. Nissan came [...]
Festival of Lights Christmas parade Auburn, CA held it's Festival of Lights Christmas parade in the California Gold Country's old town on December 6, 2014. Bands, ballerinas, dogs, horses, mermaids and Santa Clauses, lots of Santa Clauses and hundreds of cars decked out in Christmas lights of all variations. The Auburn Jeep Club showed up [...]
Experience the Volvo XC 90 with Google Bodil Eriksson, Executive Vice President, Volvo North America, talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, Driving the Nation about the new virtual test drive through a Google cardboard box that looks like an old-fashioned viewfinder, but the view is completely different. Get the Google cardboard box from a car [...]
Designing a truck Tyler Moffett, the creative designer for the Chevrolet trucks, talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, Driving the Nation, about the exterior design of the Chevy Colorado versus the GMC Canyon. What was the directive Moffett got when designing the Chevrolet Colorado? Which vehicle does Moffett thinks looks more industrial, the Colorado or [...]
2015 VW egolf Wade Harris, Volkswagen's e-mobility specialist talked to Driving the Nation about the 2015 VW e-golf, the first all-electric Volkswagen Golf and is based on the 7th generation VW Golf. Harris goes through the unique exterior designs to the single moving part and a single-speed transmission. Which system does Volkswagen use to cool [...]
Henry Ford III, and Aaron Shelby Jim Farley, Vice President of Marketing, Sales and Service, Moray Callum, Vice President design, Henry Ford III, and Aaron Shelby all talk about the 2016 Ford GT350 Shelby Mustang. From performance to production is the way Mark Fields, CEO, Ford Motor Company, described the 2015 Ford Shelby GT350. The [...]
2015 Chevy Colorado versus the engineering on the 2015 GMC Canyon Anita Burke, the Chief engineer for Chevy Colorado, talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, Driving the Nation, about the engineering of the 2015 Chevy Colorado and since the GMC Canyon is on the same underpinnings, the 2015 GMC Canyon. Burke goes through the underpinnings [...]