Tag: drove

17 OCT

We drove Ford’s $75,000 Super Duty pickup truck — and it was even more awesome than expected (F)

Matthew DeBord/BI Ford has gone all in with the redesign of its critically important Super Duty series of large pickup trucks. The Super Duty had been refreshed and updated, but it hadn’t been completely rethought in two decades. Ford makes a lot of money off these ginormous F-Series pickups, so a new Super Duty was […]

15 AUG

The man who drove his car into a pizzeria in Paris showed signs of acute paranoia

Thomson Reuters PARIS (Reuters) – The man who deliberately drove his car into diners at a pizzeria outside Paris told investigators he had a long history of medical drug abuse and wanted to be sent to prison for safety, a French prosecutor said on Tuesday. A 12-year-old girl was killed and more than a dozen […]

12 AUG

Woman: Uber driver drove perpendicular to traffic, leading to serious accident

Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images News) An Illinois amateur runner sued Uber in state court in New Jersey on Friday, claiming that a negligent driver caused a significant traffic accident last year. The accident resulted in Katherine Vesce being knocked unconscious and sustaining a “serious knee injury.” Vesce was en route to the New York […]

22 JUN

How Accusing A Powerful Man of Rape Drove A College Student To Suicide

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama — Megan Rondini’s friends and family remember her as having an ironclad sense of right and wrong. Her childhood nickname was “Rules Rondini” because she was such a principled board game player. As an honors student at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Megan offered rides to drunk girls walking alone at night, […]

15 JUN

We drove a brand new Tesla Model X from San Francisco to New York — here’s what happened

We drove the Tesla Model X from San Francisco to New York in just under a week to see what it’s really like to take an all-electric vehicle on an aggressive cross-country road trip. We limited our charging to Tesla’s network of Supercharger stations in the United States, of which there are 861 in the United […]

13 MAY

Group B rally cars are awesome, and we just drove some

Jonathan Gitlin The heady days of Group B rallying (and racing) will always have a special place in the hearts of most motorsports fans. Introduced by the FIA in 1982, the Group B rules offered a vast amount of technical freedom for manufacturers. Although the OEMs had to produce road-legal versions, they were required to […]