Toyota Camry Driving, Cadillac Moving, Tesla Updating, Jetta Crashing: The ... - The Car Connection
We went for a first drive of the new Camry in Hawaii, and came away impressed with the major changes Toyota's undertaken just three years after the Camry was last reworked. The mid-size mainstay has hardly been transformed, but it has a new kind of flair that works well inside and out. The new Camry is comfort-oriented, but it steers well, handles reasonably well, rides very well, and feels composed in nearly everything that you can give it--as long as you skip the outdated four-cylinder. But on Friday, electric car company Tesla announced a substantial software update of its own, and some of the new bells and whistles are even more interesting than those found on iPhones. Some of the key new features include traffic-based navigation, remote start, location-based air suspension that lifts the car when it encounters known road problems, and better power management that lets the Model S go into a kind of sleep mode,... Last week the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave its top accolade to the 2015 Volkswagen Jetta —and that now makes it one of the safest compact sedans if you shop by the ratings. For the new model year, the Jetta's A-pillars and door sills were strengthened, and Volkswagen added an available forward collision warning system. That feature allows the Jetta to earn a 'Basic' rating for front crash prevention—now necessary to earn the agency's Top Safety Pick Plus (TSP+) status. Source: www.thecarconnection.com
