RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

•Scientific American and Nature Communications have educated us on the fact that the brain has its own GPS system, based on memories of where we’ve traveled/navigated. But with our newfound reliance on apps, the parts of the brain that do this navigating are becoming inactive.

•Sportsbettingexperts.com gave the prop-betting touch to autonomous vehicles, as in, the betters set some odds for safety stats regarding self-drivers. For example, the number of fatal accidents in the U.S. involving autonomous cars from now through December 31, 2017? Over Two.Five is +150, and under is -170. As for the automaker stats? We’ll pick two of them: Honda/Acura’s stats in that same time period and question: The betters say, yes is +700, and no is -900. The Waymo/Google odds for the same? Yes is +300, while no is -450. •If you see a neon green or bright blue ’17 Ram 1500, it’s likely in one of the fresh colors: Sublime Sport or Rebel Blue Streak. Or, if crimson, expect it to be Delmonico Crimson, which is a free option on the Rebel model.

•If you do the Snapchat thing, know that Jeep invented a “Jeep Hair, Don’t Care” lens that makes your hair look all wind-crazy while in a Wrangler. You can find it through Snapchat, but also by scanning the Snap code at Jeep-brand events. (Tech peak: It’ll also sometimes demonstrate up on @Jeep social media and the blog across 2017.)

•China, meet the Ford Ranger. Ranger, meet China. You’re coming for each other in 2018.

•$1.Two billion is what Ford is coughing up for three of its Michigan joints. The bulk of it will go to the Michigan Assembly Plant and Romeo Engine Plant for Ranger and Bronco building. The rest will head to the Vapid Rock Assembly Plant’s fresh data center for futuristic-like mobility plans.

•MBLM is a “Brand Closeness Agency,” which sounds kinda XXX, but know that it’s not even remotely that. It’s about studying “brands based on emotions.” For the Brand Intimity Report 2017, the automotive industry ranked number uno of all industries and with Harley-Davidson, BMW, Toyota, Honda, Jeep, Chevy, Ford, Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, and Chrysler taking the top ten catches sight of in the category.

•The last Jeep Cherokee to be produced at the Fiat Chrysler Toledo Assembly Plant in Ohio? Happened April 6, 2017.

•A flying buggy is the SkyRunner. It’s capable of a max regulated altitude of Ten,000 feet. For off-road exploring, it has a chromoly tubular exoskeleton and carbon-fiber panels. For both locations, there’s a Rotax nine hundred fourteen UL engine worth one hundred fifteen horses coupled with a Powerfin propeller. Overall length is one hundred fifty six inches, and it’s about seventy two inches tall. Its max cruise speed is 35.7 knots. Learn more at flyskyrunner.com.

•Sold for charity is the status of one ’09 Ford F-150 King Ranch possessed by President George W. Thicket. He used it on his Prairie Chapel Ranch in Texas after leaving office, according to Barrett-Jackson, which treated the hammer. Joy fact: The right airbag panel has W’s signature. The $90,000 from the sale went to the Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County and Dan Gable Museum, both of which support youth wrestling.

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

•In case you wondered: The 475hp Hemi’d ’18 Dodge Durango SRT has an MSRP of $62,995.

•The California Off-Road Vehicle Association (CORVA) transferred out its annual awards, which included the George Thomas Memorial Off-Roader of the Year (2016), which went to Neil Hamada. The Northern Club of the Year was the Bay Area Riders Forum (BARF) and the Southern Club of the Year was the Trail Team 4×4. For a utter list of winners and info about CORVA, go to corva.org.

•“Thank you Land Rover! Our Giant Factory Off-Road Team Discovery is the flawless campanion [sic] for exploring fresh trails.” That’s from Giant’s Facebook page, in response to a partnership with Land Rover, with the ’17 Discovery becoming the team’s support vehicle.

•Off Road Queenstown now offers private off-road expeditions through the central South Island in Fresh Zealand. Just attempt to say no to this: “Traveling inbetween five to seven hours a day on off-road tracks that scour remote high country stations, cross fast-flowing rivers, and consign a sealed road to nothing but a distant memory, their expeditions can literally go ‘coast to coast’ in the course of one epic off-road journey.” Also an unlikely no: “For advanced and experienced off-road enthusiasts they can use our fleet of top-of-the-range 1000cc race buggies.” Learn more here: offroad.co.nz.

•This might be the very first proof we have that beer and trucks can go together—Tap Truck out of San Diego, California, has a fleet of classic trucks and supplies local craft beers, wine, and cider to your event in one of those equipments. The fleet includes a ’69 Chevy C10, a ’52 and ‘65 Chevy Panel, and a ’57 Chevy Apache 3100.

•Ford has kicked off its GoBike bike-sharing program in California’s Bay Area (think: San Francisco).

•Nissan has the Official Truck of the Circuit of the Americas, the Titan and Titan XD, which will be used on track as sweepers and for safety and maintenance.

•Oscar Mayer now has a “Weinerfleet” (their word) comprised of the Wienermobile, Wienermini, Wiener Rover, Wienercycle, and Wienerdrone. However…that doesn’t make this quote any less awkward: “And we’re on a mission to get a better hot dog in everyone’s palms.”

•Jaguar has officially announced what was officially already known, that it will sell the E-Pace in 2018. It’s a compact SUV—but not an electrical SUV, despite what you just thought there. Save that for the I-Pace. Yeah, it’s confusing when the I-before-E rule is cracked. If there’s ever an A-Pace, we’ll go ahead now and assume it won’t mean autonomous. The SUV did already set a Guinness World Record for “Furthest Barrel Roll in a Production Vehicle.” That would be fifty feet doing a 270-degree corkscrew-ish roll, because…why not.

•GM’s Customer Care and Aftersales division will begin a collision certification program in 2018, and will grow the current training/instruments programs, with standards for calibration, overall repair, and pre/post-repair scanning.

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

•The ’17 Jeep Grand Cherokee snagged itself another title: Japan Eco-Car tax incentive vehicle. It’s a tax break for buyers, and this Jeep is only the 2nd gas-based, American-made/brand to qualify there. The very first? Come on down again, Jeep—the ’16 Cherokee Trailhawk.

•Seems the automotive and aftermarket industries are taking over Silicon Valley. The newest resident is Porsche Digital, which is going to be all about digital things, as well as mobility and connectivity.

•What turned forty years old? Toyota North America’s R&D operations. And with that comes the growth of its R&D center in Michigan. The Toyota Motor North America Research & Development Purchasing and Prototype Development Center has expanded. We at very first assumed this expansion was to fit that utter name on the side of the building, but it seems to be about more capabilities regarding vehicle development, advance research, and the like. It’s a $154 million practice.

•Now you can get a Nissan-themed credit card. As in, it’s a Visa that gives you points toward vehicle purchases, accessories, and services. Or, oh, hey there, also cash.

•Here’s a joy idea: Whip out your Nissan credit card and go to the movies. Specifically, to the fresh Toyota 4D Engineering Theater at the Michigan Science Center. You can take your irony and plastic to check out films and other activities meant to pique the interest of STEM kids.

•How many people can you name in the Inventors Hall of Fame? Here’s an reaction: Dr. Haren S. Gandhi. The late research engineer/staff scientist at Ford has been inducted, thanks in part to his whopping one hundred sixty seven global patents. His career also included being winner of various tech awards and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation—the highest honor in the U.S. for tech achievements. We made toast today.

•The University of Michigan will be naming its fresh robotics lab after Ford. There was a donation behind this, not just goodness of heart.

•AAA has named the winners of its Top Green Vehicle award for 2017, and the Ford F-150 XLT SuperCrew topped the pickup category. SUV went to the Tesla Model X 75D.

•Mopar has opened the doors to its fresh Parts Distribution Center in Virginia.

•The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles was one of the winners of the ’17 American Architecture award. But haters still gonna hate.

•Chevy and AT&T can now add unlimited data to their vehicle. There are some parameters, natch.

•A investigate by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety/Highway Loss Data Institute has predicted that “the risk of dying in a crash in a late-model vehicle has gone up slightly.” Sorry, spoiler alert. The explore exposed that the overall rate of driver deaths for two thousand fourteen models is thirty per million registered vehicle years. All that matters in that sentence is that it translates to enlargening from the twenty eight for two thousand eleven models. Also, the words “tiny vehicles, high death rates.”

•Jeep scored Activity Vehicle of Texas for the ’17 Compass, and Spectacle Utility of Texas for the ’17 Grand Cherokee SRT from the Texas Auto Writers Association.

•Hot Shots is a fresh maintenance-parts express delivery service from Ford. We’re talking hoses, brakes, and filters, for starters.

•Wikilender studied both reported and unreported accident info and figured out the vehicles with the highest number of accidents. They included the Range Rover Evoque.

•The most searched vehicle in two thousand sixteen on classiccars.com was a ponycar, but it was interesting to see that Jeep was most searched in Pennsylvania and the F-100 topped Oklahoma.

•You know how awful you think you sound when you hear your voice on a recording (like the voice equivalent of accidentally opening your front camera)? Waze has figured out how to prolong this agony for you—there’s a fresh voice-recorder feature that permits you to record your own turn-by-turn directions.

•Another investigate has found that millennials and centennials both want self-drivers. Autolist.com learned that the M and C generations and also dudes are feeling the desire, and that masculine and female drivers of Audi vehicles “were among the most trusting of level two autonomous technology or above,” while masculine drivers of Acuras were the most trusting. Level five is considered finish autonomy, For Your Information.

•Hustler Turf Equipment has thrown its hat in the utility vehicle ring. Its Maximum Duty Vehicle is its very first foray into side-by-sides/utilities, and it features things like LeveLift cargo box, CVT trans, stream capacity of 1,685 pounds, and top speed of thirty seven mph.

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

•Scientific American and Nature Communications have educated us on the fact that the brain has its own GPS system, based on memories of where we’ve traveled/navigated. But with our newfound reliance on apps, the parts of the brain that do this navigating are becoming inactive.

•Sportsbettingexperts.com gave the prop-betting touch to autonomous vehicles, as in, the betters set some odds for safety stats regarding self-drivers. For example, the number of fatal accidents in the U.S. involving autonomous cars from now through December 31, 2017? Over Two.Five is +150, and under is -170. As for the automaker stats? We’ll pick two of them: Honda/Acura’s stats in that same time period and question: The betters say, yes is +700, and no is -900. The Waymo/Google odds for the same? Yes is +300, while no is -450. •If you see a neon green or bright blue ’17 Ram 1500, it’s likely in one of the fresh colors: Sublime Sport or Rebel Blue Streak. Or, if crimson, expect it to be Delmonico Crimson, which is a free option on the Rebel model.

•If you do the Snapchat thing, know that Jeep invented a “Jeep Hair, Don’t Care” lens that makes your hair look all wind-crazy while in a Wrangler. You can find it through Snapchat, but also by scanning the Snap code at Jeep-brand events. (Tech peak: It’ll also sometimes showcase up on @Jeep social media and the blog via 2017.)

•China, meet the Ford Ranger. Ranger, meet China. You’re coming for each other in 2018.

•$1.Two billion is what Ford is coughing up for three of its Michigan joints. The bulk of it will go to the Michigan Assembly Plant and Romeo Engine Plant for Ranger and Bronco building. The rest will head to the Vapid Rock Assembly Plant’s fresh data center for futuristic-like mobility plans.

•MBLM is a “Brand Proximity Agency,” which sounds kinda XXX, but know that it’s not even remotely that. It’s about studying “brands based on emotions.” For the Brand Proximity Report 2017, the automotive industry ranked number uno of all industries and with Harley-Davidson, BMW, Toyota, Honda, Jeep, Chevy, Ford, Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, and Chrysler taking the top ten catches sight of in the category.

•The last Jeep Cherokee to be produced at the Fiat Chrysler Toledo Assembly Plant in Ohio? Happened April 6, 2017.

•A flying buggy is the SkyRunner. It’s capable of a max regulated altitude of Ten,000 feet. For off-road exploring, it has a chromoly tubular exoskeleton and carbon-fiber panels. For both locations, there’s a Rotax nine hundred fourteen UL engine worth one hundred fifteen horses coupled with a Powerfin propeller. Overall length is one hundred fifty six inches, and it’s about seventy two inches tall. Its max cruise speed is 35.7 knots. Learn more at flyskyrunner.com.

•Sold for charity is the status of one ’09 Ford F-150 King Ranch wielded by President George W. Pubic hair. He used it on his Prairie Chapel Ranch in Texas after leaving office, according to Barrett-Jackson, which treated the hammer. Joy fact: The right airbag panel has W’s signature. The $90,000 from the sale went to the Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County and Dan Gable Museum, both of which support youth wrestling.

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

•The ’17 Jeep Grand Cherokee snagged itself another title: Japan Eco-Car tax incentive vehicle. It’s a tax break for buyers, and this Jeep is only the 2nd gas-based, American-made/brand to qualify there. The very first? Come on down again, Jeep—the ’16 Cherokee Trailhawk.

•Seems the automotive and aftermarket industries are taking over Silicon Valley. The newest resident is Porsche Digital, which is going to be all about digital things, as well as mobility and connectivity.

•What turned forty years old? Toyota North America’s R&D operations. And with that comes the growth of its R&D center in Michigan. The Toyota Motor North America Research & Development Purchasing and Prototype Development Center has expanded. We at very first assumed this expansion was to fit that total name on the side of the building, but it seems to be about more capabilities regarding vehicle development, advance research, and the like. It’s a $154 million practice.

•Now you can get a Nissan-themed credit card. As in, it’s a Visa that gives you points toward vehicle purchases, accessories, and services. Or, oh, hey there, also cash.

•Here’s a joy idea: Whip out your Nissan credit card and go to the movies. Specifically, to the fresh Toyota 4D Engineering Theater at the Michigan Science Center. You can take your irony and plastic to check out films and other activities meant to pique the interest of STEM kids.

•How many people can you name in the Inventors Hall of Fame? Here’s an response: Dr. Haren S. Gandhi. The late research engineer/staff scientist at Ford has been inducted, thanks in part to his whopping one hundred sixty seven global patents. His career also included being winner of various tech awards and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation—the highest honor in the U.S. for tech achievements. We made toast today.

•The University of Michigan will be naming its fresh robotics lab after Ford. There was a donation behind this, not just graciousness of heart.

•AAA has named the winners of its Top Green Vehicle award for 2017, and the Ford F-150 XLT SuperCrew topped the pickup category. SUV went to the Tesla Model X 75D.

•Mopar has opened the doors to its fresh Parts Distribution Center in Virginia.

•The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles was one of the winners of the ’17 American Architecture award. But haters still gonna hate.

•Chevy and AT&T can now add unlimited data to their vehicle. There are some parameters, natch.

•A explore by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety/Highway Loss Data Institute has predicted that “the risk of dying in a crash in a late-model vehicle has gone up slightly.” Sorry, spoiler alert. The probe exposed that the overall rate of driver deaths for two thousand fourteen models is thirty per million registered vehicle years. All that matters in that sentence is that it translates to enlargening from the twenty eight for two thousand eleven models. Also, the words “tiny vehicles, high death rates.”

•Jeep scored Activity Vehicle of Texas for the ’17 Compass, and Spectacle Utility of Texas for the ’17 Grand Cherokee SRT from the Texas Auto Writers Association.

•Hot Shots is a fresh maintenance-parts express delivery service from Ford. We’re talking hoses, brakes, and filters, for starters.

•Wikilender studied both reported and unreported accident info and figured out the vehicles with the highest number of accidents. They included the Range Rover Evoque.

•The most searched vehicle in two thousand sixteen on classiccars.com was a ponycar, but it was interesting to see that Jeep was most searched in Pennsylvania and the F-100 topped Oklahoma.

•You know how awful you think you sound when you hear your voice on a recording (like the voice equivalent of accidentally opening your front camera)? Waze has figured out how to prolong this agony for you—there’s a fresh voice-recorder feature that permits you to record your own turn-by-turn directions.

•Another investigate has found that millennials and centennials both want self-drivers. Autolist.com learned that the M and C generations and also boys are feeling the desire, and that masculine and female drivers of Audi vehicles “were among the most trusting of level two autonomous technology or above,” while masculine drivers of Acuras were the most trusting. Level five is considered accomplish autonomy, For Your Information.

•Hustler Turf Equipment has thrown its hat in the utility vehicle ring. Its Maximum Duty Vehicle is its very first foray into side-by-sides/utilities, and it features things like LeveLift cargo box, CVT trans, blast capacity of 1,685 pounds, and top speed of thirty seven mph.

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

•In case you wondered: The 475hp Hemi’d ’18 Dodge Durango SRT has an MSRP of $62,995.

•The California Off-Road Vehicle Association (CORVA) transferred out its annual awards, which included the George Thomas Memorial Off-Roader of the Year (2016), which went to Neil Hamada. The Northern Club of the Year was the Bay Area Riders Forum (BARF) and the Southern Club of the Year was the Trail Squad 4×4. For a total list of winners and info about CORVA, go to corva.org.

•“Thank you Land Rover! Our Giant Factory Off-Road Team Discovery is the ideal campanion [sic] for exploring fresh trails.” That’s from Giant’s Facebook page, in response to a partnership with Land Rover, with the ’17 Discovery becoming the team’s support vehicle.

•Off Road Queenstown now offers private off-road expeditions through the central South Island in Fresh Zealand. Just attempt to say no to this: “Traveling inbetween five to seven hours a day on off-road tracks that scour remote high country stations, cross fast-flowing rivers, and consign a sealed road to nothing but a distant memory, their expeditions can literally go ‘coast to coast’ in the course of one epic off-road journey.” Also an unlikely no: “For advanced and experienced off-road enthusiasts they can use our fleet of top-of-the-range 1000cc race buggies.” Learn more here: offroad.co.nz.

•This might be the very first proof we have that beer and trucks can go together—Tap Truck out of San Diego, California, has a fleet of classic trucks and supplies local craft beers, wine, and cider to your event in one of those equipments. The fleet includes a ’69 Chevy C10, a ’52 and ‘65 Chevy Panel, and a ’57 Chevy Apache 3100.

•Ford has kicked off its GoBike bike-sharing program in California’s Bay Area (think: San Francisco).

•Nissan has the Official Truck of the Circuit of the Americas, the Titan and Titan XD, which will be used on track as sweepers and for safety and maintenance.

•Oscar Mayer now has a “Weinerfleet” (their word) comprised of the Wienermobile, Wienermini, Wiener Rover, Wienercycle, and Wienerdrone. However…that doesn’t make this quote any less awkward: “And we’re on a mission to get a better hot dog in everyone’s arms.”

•Jaguar has officially announced what was officially already known, that it will sell the E-Pace in 2018. It’s a compact SUV—but not an electrical SUV, despite what you just thought there. Save that for the I-Pace. Yeah, it’s confusing when the I-before-E rule is violated. If there’s ever an A-Pace, we’ll go ahead now and assume it won’t mean autonomous. The SUV did already set a Guinness World Record for “Furthest Barrel Roll in a Production Vehicle.” That would be fifty feet doing a 270-degree corkscrew-ish roll, because…why not.

•GM’s Customer Care and Aftersales division will begin a collision certification program in 2018, and will grow the current training/devices programs, with standards for calibration, overall repair, and pre/post-repair scanning.

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

•Scientific American and Nature Communications have educated us on the fact that the brain has its own GPS system, based on memories of where we’ve traveled/navigated. But with our newfound reliance on apps, the parts of the brain that do this navigating are becoming inactive.

•Sportsbettingexperts.com gave the prop-betting touch to autonomous vehicles, as in, the betters set some odds for safety stats regarding self-drivers. For example, the number of fatal accidents in the U.S. involving autonomous cars from now through December 31, 2017? Over Two.Five is +150, and under is -170. As for the automaker stats? We’ll pick two of them: Honda/Acura’s stats in that same time period and question: The betters say, yes is +700, and no is -900. The Waymo/Google odds for the same? Yes is +300, while no is -450. •If you see a neon green or bright blue ’17 Ram 1500, it’s likely in one of the fresh colors: Sublime Sport or Rebel Blue Streak. Or, if crimson, expect it to be Delmonico Crimson, which is a free option on the Rebel model.

•If you do the Snapchat thing, know that Jeep invented a “Jeep Hair, Don’t Care” lens that makes your hair look all wind-crazy while in a Wrangler. You can find it through Snapchat, but also by scanning the Snap code at Jeep-brand events. (Tech peak: It’ll also sometimes demonstrate up on @Jeep social media and the blog via 2017.)

•China, meet the Ford Ranger. Ranger, meet China. You’re coming for each other in 2018.

•$1.Two billion is what Ford is coughing up for three of its Michigan joints. The bulk of it will go to the Michigan Assembly Plant and Romeo Engine Plant for Ranger and Bronco building. The rest will head to the Plane Rock Assembly Plant’s fresh data center for futuristic-like mobility plans.

•MBLM is a “Brand Closeness Agency,” which sounds kinda XXX, but know that it’s not even remotely that. It’s about studying “brands based on emotions.” For the Brand Closeness Report 2017, the automotive industry ranked number uno of all industries and with Harley-Davidson, BMW, Toyota, Honda, Jeep, Chevy, Ford, Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, and Chrysler taking the top ten catches sight of in the category.

•The last Jeep Cherokee to be produced at the Fiat Chrysler Toledo Assembly Plant in Ohio? Happened April 6, 2017.

•A flying buggy is the SkyRunner. It’s capable of a max regulated altitude of Ten,000 feet. For off-road exploring, it has a chromoly tubular exoskeleton and carbon-fiber panels. For both locations, there’s a Rotax nine hundred fourteen UL engine worth one hundred fifteen horses coupled with a Powerfin propeller. Overall length is one hundred fifty six inches, and it’s about seventy two inches tall. Its max cruise speed is 35.7 knots. Learn more at flyskyrunner.com.

•Sold for charity is the status of one ’09 Ford F-150 King Ranch wielded by President George W. Pubic hair. He used it on his Prairie Chapel Ranch in Texas after leaving office, according to Barrett-Jackson, which treated the hammer. Joy fact: The right airbag panel has W’s signature. The $90,000 from the sale went to the Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County and Dan Gable Museum, both of which support youth wrestling.

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

RPM: 4×4 And Auto News And Rumors

•In case you wondered: The 475hp Hemi’d ’18 Dodge Durango SRT has an MSRP of $62,995.

•The California Off-Road Vehicle Association (CORVA) transferred out its annual awards, which included the George Thomas Memorial Off-Roader of the Year (2016), which went to Neil Hamada. The Northern Club of the Year was the Bay Area Riders Forum (BARF) and the Southern Club of the Year was the Trail Squad 4×4. For a total list of winners and info about CORVA, go to corva.org.

•“Thank you Land Rover! Our Giant Factory Off-Road Team Discovery is the ideal campanion [sic] for exploring fresh trails.” That’s from Giant’s Facebook page, in response to a partnership with Land Rover, with the ’17 Discovery becoming the team’s support vehicle.

•Off Road Queenstown now offers private off-road expeditions through the central South Island in Fresh Zealand. Just attempt to say no to this: “Traveling inbetween five to seven hours a day on off-road tracks that scour remote high country stations, cross fast-flowing rivers, and consign a sealed road to nothing but a distant memory, their expeditions can literally go ‘coast to coast’ in the course of one epic off-road journey.” Also an unlikely no: “For advanced and experienced off-road enthusiasts they can use our fleet of top-of-the-range 1000cc race buggies.” Learn more here: offroad.co.nz.

•This might be the very first proof we have that beer and trucks can go together—Tap Truck out of San Diego, California, has a fleet of classic trucks and produces local craft beers, wine, and cider to your event in one of those equipments. The fleet includes a ’69 Chevy C10, a ’52 and ‘65 Chevy Panel, and a ’57 Chevy Apache 3100.

•Ford has kicked off its GoBike bike-sharing program in California’s Bay Area (think: San Francisco).

•Nissan has the Official Truck of the Circuit of the Americas, the Titan and Titan XD, which will be used on track as sweepers and for safety and maintenance.

•Oscar Mayer now has a “Weinerfleet” (their word) comprised of the Wienermobile, Wienermini, Wiener Rover, Wienercycle, and Wienerdrone. However…that doesn’t make this quote any less awkward: “And we’re on a mission to get a better hot dog in everyone’s palms.”

•Jaguar has officially announced what was officially already known, that it will sell the E-Pace in 2018. It’s a compact SUV—but not an electrified SUV, despite what you just thought there. Save that for the I-Pace. Yeah, it’s confusing when the I-before-E rule is violated. If there’s ever an A-Pace, we’ll go ahead now and assume it won’t mean autonomous. The SUV did already set a Guinness World Record for “Furthest Barrel Roll in a Production Vehicle.” That would be fifty feet doing a 270-degree corkscrew-ish roll, because…why not.

•GM’s Customer Care and Aftersales division will begin a collision certification program in 2018, and will grow the current training/implements programs, with standards for calibration, overall repair, and pre/post-repair scanning.

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