FARMINGTON HILLS, MI — Mercedes-Benz Financial Services (MBFS) has announced it is adding an in-vehicle app for account management to its suite of mobile tools for its customers in the United States. The new app, called My MBFS, will automatically be added to the cloud-based infotainment system on model year 2013 and newer Mercedes-Benz vehicles more »

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, MI – Would you like your vehicle to suggest a different route to or from work when there are unexpected delays on your regular course? What if your vehicle’s cockpit temperature adjusted automatically based on your preferences and the outside temperature? Visteon Corporation has developed a unique cockpit concept that offers these more »

LOS ANGELES – No trend in the auto industry is more topical than advanced technology platforms. To underscore that fact, the LA Auto Show confirmed that two dozen automotive tech experts from companies such as Aha Radio, Auto Alliance, BMW, Delphi, Ford, Gracenote, Hughes Telematics, INRIX, J.D. Power & Associates, Kia, Livio, Pandora, QNX, Sprint more »

NEW YORK – Creative Mobile Technologies and Blue Bite have announced a first of its kind media-mobile technology partnership in the U.S. taxi space. Blue Bite’s proprietary mTAG platform will be available in 5,000 taxicabs with CMT media screens in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Anaheim by September 1, 2013. Here’s how more »

COSTA MESA, CA – All new Blue Link-equipped Hyundai vehicles will come standard with three years of complimentary Assurance Connected Care service, Hyundai announced at the 2013 New York International Auto Show. Assurance Connected Care is powered by the automaker’s Blue Link telematics platform, which now has enrolled over 400,000 subscribers. Assurance Connected Care makes more »

A few months ago Fishman did an iPad install on a Ford F250 Harley Davidson edition.  Lyndon was impressed with a Nissan Cube install he saw, but he never met everyone’s favorite Puerto Rican car audio customizer.  The video isn’t shot great, but check out how the iPad motorizes out of the dashboard just enough more »

Ford said it brought a Ford Transit Custom to Cannes Film Festival over the weekend to showcase the best in mobile cinema. Its name? Cannes In a Van. The official Ford press release said the Transit Custom full-size van has been outfitted as a mobile movie house and will screen independent films. Cannes 2013 was more »

WEST CHESTER, OH – ESCORT, Inc. has announced the release of its new windshield mount detector accessory fittingly named “StickyCup.” The new StickyCup is a full-featured bracket mount that includes a semi-sticky gel ring on the cup surface that improves cohesion and detector support on the windshield. StickyCup works with ESCORT’s category leading products including more »

Define “no shame:” Rolling down every window and opening the enormous sunroof in our 2014 Subaru Forester XT and blasting the ’70s best of KISS at full volume on the first warm, sunny day I’d seen in a while. Gene and the boys pulled the trigger on the Love Gun, and the Scoob’s head unit more »

BMW DesignworksUSA– basically, a design subsidiary of the automaker– is teaming with mobile company ADAIA to design a concept smartphone targeted at adventurers.