An aluminum hood, a front bulkhead assembly made from a resin composite material, and 2-piece repairable rear rails are among the changes Honda has made to the 2022 Civic, according to the automaker’s June 2021 [...]
The $1 trillion infrastructure bill under debate by the U.S. Senate includes a provision that would mandate passive technology in all new cars to prevent drunk or impaired drivers from operating the vehicle. This technology, [...]
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) on August 9 formally announced its opposition to the federally proposed “Save Money on Auto Repair Transportation (SMART) Act, the latest attempt to reduce the length of time [...]
In addition to discussing the structural performance and design of the vehicle, Honda recently delved into the joining which went into its next-generation 2021 Acura TLX. Even if the repair procedures for the auto aftermarket [...]
Honda developed a unique architecture for the next-generation 2021 Acura TLX which concentrated on rigidity for the suspension but enough flexibility to accommodate the three powertrain versions, according to Honda body design principal design engineer [...]
An informal poll of collision shops at a collision industry event earlier this year found that 60% of shops don’t yet repair electric vehicles, but that’s likely to change dramatically in the coming years based [...]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday told investors that the OEM’s Austin, Tex., and Berlin, Germany, factories when finished will produce a different Model Y body than the Fremont, Calif., plant. “The Model Y made [...]
“We want to play in everything Level 2 and up,” Baraja vice president of engineering, automotive Jim Kane said last month of his lidar company, and he provided a sense of what such an technology [...]
MINI Global last month announced buyers could upgrade to an optional “Multitone Roof” on two- and four-door and Clubman MINIs. MINI USA head of corporate communications Andrew Cutler in a July email said the three-color [...]
Würth 3D sales engineer Carter Rhodes told the Collision Industry Conference last month how a carbon-fiber 3D-printed Markforged chain link subjected to an Instron pulling test didn’t break until 22,000 pounds of force, which equates [...]
