Thanks to Google and smartphones, the act of extended wondering is dying out. If somebody is curious about anything, all it takes is a swift pocket pull, a couple of taps, and boom, there will be a multitude of explanations and answers staring at you, courtesy of a website with a few colorful letters and a blinking cursor. Google is such a popular service that the brand name has become a verb, synonymous with the phrase ?look it up.?
Want to know the horsepower of a 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396" Google it! The search page has become an invaluable tool for car research (almost as invaluable as Car and Driver).
So what are people looking up" Google released its year-end review, and the results tell an interesting tale.
Here are the 10 most searched car brands in 2016:
Honda
Mercedes-Benz
Tesla
Lamborghini
Volvo
Ford
Jaguar
Bentley
Maserati
Rolls-Royce

For car nerds like us, this births new curiosities that a Google search can’t directly answer. What do people want to know about Honda" Where are Toyota and Chevrolet" Why isn’t Tesla first"

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There are a few educated guesses we could make about these findings. Jaguar, Bentley, and Maserati all released their first SUVs ever this...