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How To Be A Better Driver

There’s a lot of frustratingly bad drivers out there. We don’t need more, so prevent yourself from joining their ranks by being a better driver. There’s several techniques and methods, and some of them are even fun, so pick a few that work for you and commute in safety. Pay attention Stop updating your Facebook status, put down your iPhone, and just drive. This is a mental and ...

Car Features You Don’t Need

While at the dealership selecting your perfect car, you might be tempted to listen to the sales pro and go all in on the super luxury uber package. After all, you deserve it, right? But hold up a minute and think about how much those features will cost over the life of the loan, and how often you will use them. Odds are, you will never get your money’s worth, but the dealership sure will. ...

Fast Cars That Can Properly Handle a Child Seat

Uh oh. Now you’ve gone and done it. You’re bringing a little one into the world. Time to sell off all your fun toys and buy a minivan. Or is it? High performance is no longer the realm of just 2-seat sports cars. If you have a need for speed, and four doors to accommodate a child seat, get one of these. Dodge Charger Nothing says aggressive 4-door like the Charger. Police ...

Electric Cars Can Rock

Many car enthusiasts make fun of electric cars, calling them slow, boring, transportation appliances. Sure, some of them are, but electric vehicles are the most likely future method of personal transportation. Gearheads and hot-rodders worry about electric vehicles being the end of the road, but clean electric performance can bring on a new era of affordable high performance. Let’s start ...

How to Have a Great Time in the Salvage Yard

Salvage yards are all over the country, and can offer vehicles as different as ancient ‘20s iron, to last year’s hot new supercar. Whether you are looking to repair your daily driver, or just find good deals to resell on eBay, here are some tips on how to have a successful salvage yard run. Prep It’s usually good advice to follow the Boy Scout motto, “Be Prepared.” Before heading ...

The 8 Best Roads in America

Great roads can make something as boring as commuting into an adventure you look forward to, no matter how many times you take that stretch of road. From beautiful scenic routes to technically challenging twisty drives, here are America’s greatest roads. Pacific Coast Highway Technically California State Route 1, the Pacific Coast Highway covers 650 miles of California’s best ...

Concept Cars That Should Have Made Production

Concept cars are a great way for manufacturers to test public reaction to ideas, without risking the massive investment needed to start production. If new styling cues go unnoticed at a major show, that’s probably the last you’ll see of it. If the press and public rave over it, there’s a good chance it will make production. Sometimes. Here are a few concept cars that should have become street ...

Why Fuel Savers Don’t Work

Every time the gas prices increase, you see an ad or commercial for some new device claiming it will save you hundreds of dollars in gas every year, usually for just six easy payments of $29.95. Before you get your hopes up, let’s debunk the most common types. Fuel savers tend to be divided into a few groups, separated by their own approaches to pseudo-science. First up are the magnets. ...

Bucket List Experiences for the Gearhead

As an automotive enthusiast, there are some things you just have to do in your life. Whether doing it yourself, or just spectating, a lot of the items on this list are fun even for non-car people. Here are a few things you must do at some point in your lifetime. Road Trip Great road trips can be the epic stuff of legends. Be sure to properly prepare beforehand, as a poorly ...

8 Car Colors That Need to Return

Beige, gray, or white. How exciting. New cars offer tons of tech and options, but most offer only a few real colors. Rather than making a vehicle into just another household appliance or iThing, manufacturers should look through their history books and add some of these great colors and themes to their product lineup. Plum Crazy The 1970 Dodge Challenger had an awesome color of ...

10 Cars with Accurate Stereotypes

Some cars are blank slates that are whatever their drivers want them to be. A Toyota Corolla can be as mild as grandma’s church commuter, or an older one can be an overpowered tire shredding drift hero. A Camaro can be a brutal high-tech road racer, or a trailer park trawling mullet mobile. Other cars come with what seems like a built-in stereotype, and it’s usually the derogatory kind. ...

10 Essentials to Have in Your Car

Taking a few minutes to assess the contents of your car to be sure that it is equipped with the most practical and necessary items, can save you time and frustration in the future, as well as help to assure your well-being, on your short and long distance journeys. Some drivers have been thankful for their advanced planning when they have been stranded in an isolated location, and others have ...

Radar Detector Review: K40 RL 100

Even though the best method of avoiding speeding tickets is to simply not speed, for most car guys this is not an option. “Lead footers” (or speeders) range from the “chronically late” and “always in a rush” crowd, to those like me who love driving as fast as possible. Whatever the reason (even if it’s accidental), every motorist speeds and is at risk for a ticket. Unfortunately, I’m no ...

Cool New Technology Repels Dirt on Cars

New Nissan Technology Repels Dirt and Adds to Roster of Innovation Nissan has announced testing on a trade-marked nano-paint coating that could make car washing obsolete. “Ultra-Ever Dry” is a water and oil resistant material that gets sprayed over the usual paintwork of a car. This works in the same way as water off a duck’s back (no idiom intended), with liquid and grime sliding off ...

Top 7 Redneck Motorsports

It’s good to be a “redneck” these days. Hillbillies haven’t been this popular since the early 1980s when “The Dukes of Hazard” made a fool out of Boss Hogg with their 1969 custom Dodge Charger, “The General Lee.” The term “redneck” describes a rural American culture, and those who embody the culture are proud of the redneck label. From Kenny Powers, to those bearded duck guys on “Duck ...

Sinkhole Devours Valuable Cars at the National Corvette Museum

Straight out of a scene from a Sci-Fi B-Movie, a giant sinkhole opened up beneath the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY at 5:39 a.m., and gulped down eight rare Chevrolet sports cars like a terra firma milkshake. We don’t know if it was caused by Godzilla, The Blob, or some other creature from the Black Lagoon, but this sinkhole created major problems when it collapsed the floor ...