Published:Thursday | February 26, 2015 | 10:25 PMChad Bryan
Touch-screen technology, which has been incorporated into a wide range of devices, has been taken to a new automotive level with the 2016 Volkswagen Golf R Touch. The vehicle pushes the boundaries of dashboard layout and driver interactivity. First...
Published:Thursday | February 26, 2015 | 11:25 PMRasbert Turner
Utilising their creativity to make a living, Lyndon and Camille O'Sullivan have come up with the Stain Blaster, a cleaning product which can be used extensively in the automobile industry.The couple said the...
DENVER (AP): Colorado lawmakers are considering requiring snow tyres or chains on non-commercial vehicles at all times during winter and spring months, in an attempt reduce accidents and mountain traffic.The bill goes to...
DETROIT (AP):The auto industry, fed up with slow progress towards finding the cause of airbags to explode with too much force, has hired a Virginia rocket science company to investigate the matter.Ten automakers whose vehicles have been recalled...
Scores of schoolchildren in Clarendon are benefiting from the Government's Rural Safe School Bus Programme, which has been put in place by the Transport Authority (TA). Speaking at the official launch of the programme in May Pen, Clarendon, last...
Published:Thursday | February 19, 2015 | 8:55 PMChad Bryan
It is a given that a watch keeps track of time. Over time, this basic functionality has been expanded by various manufacturers to include features as varied as determining air temperature and the wearer's pulse rate.And now, German auto-maker BMW...
Published:Thursday | February 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMChad Bryan
The Caribbean Maritime Institute in partnership with the National Road Safety Unit of the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing, will soon be offering a course in traffic crash investigating and reporting.The course, which is being offered...
The Jamaica Automobile Association (JAA) has been assisting Automotives and Auto readers with helpful tips on everyday tasks related to their vehicles. Today, the tyre-changing process is broken down into stages to ensure that it is done safely...
The Jamaica Race Drivers Club recently launched the first leg of the Seaboard Marine CMRC Caribbean Invasion race meet and the 2015 race season at the Sports Development Foundation's Kingston office.The meet will be held from Saturday, February 28...
Conscious Reggae Party at CountrysideThe Conscious Reggae Party goes to Countryside Club, Courtney Walsh Drive, St Andrew, on Friday, February 27, just in time for Reggae Month as it closes for the 2015 staging.Countryside's regular Street Vibe...
Published:Friday | February 13, 2015 | 10:00 AMRandy Bowman
No matter how hard we try, it seems everything we do to make our tresses beautiful in the short term - blow-drying, curling, flat-ironing - ends up causing grave damage in the long term.Any hair-care expert will tell you that in order to prevent...
They are often on the road at the crack of dawn, leaving the comfort of their homes and embrace of family to ensure that commuters travel safely and securely in vehicles manned by drivers and conductors who meet the standard required to protect the...
Published:Friday | February 13, 2015 | 3:34 AMChad Bryan
German automaker BMW has created advanced intelligent lighting in its M4 model. Already available in Germany, the technology made its US debut at last month's consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, Nevada.However, there will have to be some...
Published:Friday | February 13, 2015 | 5:18 AMChad Bryan
At least one instance of road naming in 19th century Jamaica appears to have had a tinge of racism paved into it. And although one of the public suggestions to address the matter was four years ago, in yet another Black History Month, the issue...
DETROIT (AP):For the US auto industry, 2014 was the year of the recall.Automakers issued 803 recalls totalling almost 64 million vehicles. This was more than double the old record from a decade ago, according to government figures.The National...
At least one instance of road naming in 19th century Jamaica appears to have had a tinge of racism paved into it. And although one of the public suggestions to address the matter was four years ago, in yet another Black History Month, the issue springs up one more time.
Corpus Christi, Texas, police have reunited a suspected drunken driver with his arm after the prosthetic limb was left behind following a car accident.
They are often on the road at the crack of dawn, leaving the comfort of their homes and embrace of family to ensure that commuters travel safely and securely in vehicles manned by drivers and conductors who meet the standard required to protect the best interests of the travelling public. They are route inspectors, the inspector corps of the Transport Authority.
Members of the Jamaica Classic Car Club turned out in their numbers last Sunday at Tropical Splendour, the Ocho Rios Orchid Society's annual flower show and classic-car event.
German automaker BMW has created advanced intelligent lighting in its M4 model. Already available in Germany, the technology made its US debut at last month's consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Members of the Jamaica Classic Car Club turned out in their numbers last Sunday at Tropical Splendour, the Ocho Rios Orchid Society's annual flower show and classic-car event.Held in conjunction with Couples Sans Souci, the show was staged on the...
Published:Friday | February 6, 2015 | 12:24 PMChad Bryan
ONE STORY ON PAGE HI-TECH (OVER HEADLINE) The irritation and danger of motorcyclists and pedal cyclists who seem to show up out of nowhere and cut in front of drivers along busy roadways may become a thing of the past, as motor vehic...
“RASTA” RESTORATION COMPLETE! MARLEY’S FAMOUS LAND ROVER RESTORED FOR LEGEND’S 70TH BIRTHDAY EMBARGOED 6TH FEBRUARY 2015 Kingston, Jamaica: 5th February 2015; Just in time for his seventieth birthda...
Published:Friday | February 6, 2015 | 1:30 PMChad Bryan
Two weeks after 39 year-old wheelchair user Marlon King was killed in a crash with a Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus on Golding Avenue, near the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), there is no letting up in the call for changes...
