A number of 2019 Jaguar E-Pace models have been delivered to customers without a plethora of important infotainment system features. The news broke when a user on the EPaceForum revealed that their new E-Pace had been delivered without navigation, live weather, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and sports updates. And it wasn’t a glitch. Not long after picking up the keys to the new ride, the owner was called by Jaguar Land Rover who informed them that a number of 2019 E-Pace models had indeed left the factory without the ‘InControl Pack and Smart Settings.’ The forum user’s post adds that the issue affects all 2019 E-Pace S, SE, and HSE models up to VIN SADFJ2FX6K1Z43230. Dealerships are said to be receiving a detailed list of all affected VINs shortly. Jaguar Land Rover is reportedly offering owners with cars affected by this issue $600 in options credit as compensation. Why compensation? Well, the automaker is unable to retrofit the missing software, meaning … [Read more...] about Some Jaguar E-Pace SUVs Miss Key Infotainment Software
Watch: Sebastian Vettel punches the air as Mick Schumacher takes Germany to the ROC Nations Cup final
Watch: Sebastian Vettel punches the air as Mick Schumacher takes Germany to the ROC Nations Cup final Vettel punches the air as @SchumacherMick takes Germany to the ROC Nations Cup final! #ROCMexico pic.twitter.com/Htc3OI7NO8 — #ROCMexico (@RaceOfChampions) January 19, 2019 Jan 19, 2019Scuderia Fans Let other Scuderia Fans know about us … [Read more...] about Watch: Sebastian Vettel punches the air as Mick Schumacher takes Germany to the ROC Nations Cup final
Audi A1 is the supermini to help you stand out from Ford Fiesta with enough hustle to elude coach blindspots
AH, the Audi A1 – the gateway drug to a life hooked on the four rings. Come for the A1, stay for the A3, A7, Q5, Q8... and so on. This is how they getcha folks, so be careful. Audi knows the A1 has to be good if it’s going to convert another person to 40 years of driving its cars. With that in mind, it isn’t like a lot of superminis on the market – hastily knocked together to meet high demand from youngsters and city dwellers. The build quality is as good as any other in the range, and there is a wealth of choice when it comes to engines and all the other things we expect from high-standard motors. Included in that is a dual clutch (PDK) gearbox, which is a £1,500 optional extra for all engines other than the range-topping (for now, until the next generation S1 turns up) 2.0-litre turbo. The engine I drove was the 1.0-litre turbo petrol – good for 114bhp – which in my mind is all a car this size needs. It has got enough hustle … [Read more...] about Audi A1 is the supermini to help you stand out from Ford Fiesta with enough hustle to elude coach blindspots
Frances Mears, longtime AP reporter and manager, dies
Associated Press Published 4:34 PM EST Jan 19, 2019 Chapel Hill, N.C. – Frances R. Mears, an Associated Press reporter, editor and bureau chief during a journalism career that spanned more than 40 years, died Saturday. She was 66. Mears had been ill with cancer, said her husband, Walter R. Mears, the Pulitzer Prize-winning political writer and retired AP vice president who served was Washington bureau chief for The Detroit News from 1973 to 1975. After more than a decade in newspaper journalism, Fran Mears – then known as Fran Richardson – joined the AP in 1982 in Indianapolis, serving there initially as a legislative reporter and broadcast editor. In 1990, she was named news editor for Indiana after a brief hiatus from the AP when she was public relations director of the Hoosier Lottery. Mears was promoted to assistant chief of bureau for Kansas and Missouri, based in Kansas City, in 1992. She was a key editor in coverage of massive flooding in the Midwest in … [Read more...] about Frances Mears, longtime AP reporter and manager, dies
Michigan basketball fizzles vs. Wisconsin in final 6 minutes
Orion Sang Detroit Free Press Published 4:37 PM EST Jan 19, 2019 MADISON, Wis. — No. 2 Michigan's locker room, deep inside the Kohl Center, was quieter than usual. For the past two months, the Wolverines have sung 'The Victors' after their game, a tradition for every win. They couldn't do that on Saturday afternoon. Michigan (17-1 overall, 6-1 Big Ten) took its first loss of the season, falling, 64-54, to Wisconsin. Michigan coach John Beilein remembers the last time his team lost in the regular season. It came on Feb. 6, 2018, at Northwestern. He'll remember this one, too. So will the Wolverines. “We just focus on the next game that’s ahead of us, with the game that we won or lost behind us," said sophomore guard Jordan Poole. "I feel like that’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to learn. Stick to the same routine that we normally do. We just had a different outcome tonight.” Saturday's contest … [Read more...] about Michigan basketball fizzles vs. Wisconsin in final 6 minutes