Articles by Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards has loved everything cars since he was rocking Pampers and a pacifier. In his formative years, Chris spent much of his time soaking up one car magazine to the next ranging from Car & Driver to Truckin. Since college, Chris has written a number of automotive articles. His primary goal has been to entertain the reader while providing richly informative and accurate pieces. As a product of the 90’s, many of Chris’s favorite cars are from this decade, although he appreciates all automotive eras.
Dream Cars: Ferrari F50, Hummer H1, Dodge Viper GTS (First gen), Toyota Supra Turbo & 1970 Boss 302
25 Ugliest American Cars Ever
Don’t get the wrong idea here. We are huge American car fans and still drool over ZR1 Corvettes, GTS Vipers, classic 302 Boss Mustangs, etc, unfortunately every now and then U.S. car designers get their designs horribly wrong. These ugly cars may be completely mechanically sound, reliable, fast, luxurious and packed with all sorts of other great qualities, but still revoltingly ugly ...
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Top Cars with Hidden Pop-up Headlights
Many car enthusiasts have enjoyed the sleek look of car pop-up headlights. Although 178 models of cars have been manufactured with popup headlights; this type of headlight design is essentially obsolete today. The practical benefit of pop-up headlamps was to allow a vehicle to be designed with a lower and sleeker front form than would be possible with the traditional upright design. In ...
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Colorful Lamborghini Aventadors take on New York City
In the Youtube video below, four colorful Lamborghini Aventadors take on New York City. As if one Lambo Aventador wasn’t enough to make a solid video, the producers included four and each in amazing and unique colors. We already know that the Aventador is one of our favorite supercars of all-time, so the only thing in question is which color is our favorite. The new Lamborghini Aventadors in ...
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Are Cars Getting Bigger?
Are cars getting bigger in recent years? Yes, in the past 25 years or so cars have increased in size, although there are many contributing factors to this trend. First of all, there is likely a correlation between the rate of obesity and the ever increasing average size of cars and trucks. Obviously larger folks are going to prefer to purchase vehicles that comfortably accommodate their ...
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List of Cars with Animal Names
When it comes time for an Automaker to officially name a new car model, often times they draw on notable nouns such as a person (Ferrari Enzo after its founder Enzo Ferrari), place (Ferrari 550 Maranello after the location their headquarters in Maranello, Italy) or thing (Lamborghini Diablo after a ferocious Italian bull named ‘Diablo’). Perhaps the most common ‘thing’ that car companies opt ...
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How to Maintain Your Used Car
Buying a used car is one of the most budget-friendly decisions you make these days. It gives you the means to save money while enjoying the benefits of a reliable, but slightly used vehicle. While this can be a good thing, you should also understand the reality that you will be driving a car that already has some mileage on it. So, you will need to take extra care of it by setting some ...
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Bentley and Rolls-Royce Cars on Google Street View
For the 6th installment in the Google Street View Maps Exotic Car Hunt Series we focused exclusively on rare and ultra-luxurious Bentley and Rolls-Royce cars. Although we have listed hundreds of Bentleys and Rolls-Royces in previous Google StreetView posts, this installment includes an all new set of cars found around the world in locations such as Japan, South Korea, USA, United Kingdom ...
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All James Bond 007 Cars
The James Bond film series boasts some of the most exciting car chases in film history. Beyond this James Bond’s cars are always very cool on their own right, let alone their hidden high-tech gadgetry. Well not the Ford LTD, but the others…yes definitely. The cars of Agent 007 are nearly as legendary as the heroic, multi-talented secret agent himself. Of the dozens of Bond cars, the most ...
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A Look at the Batmobiles
The Batmobile has resurfaced in the news lately with the sale of the perhaps most iconic Batmobile of all time. The original 1966 Batmobile seen on the popular 1960’s Batman TV series was recently auctioned off at the Barrett Jackson car auction in Scottsdale, AZ. The bat car was built by legendary car customizer George Barris. His company Barris Kustom Industries was involved in the ...
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Supercars vs Hypercars – What are Hypercars?
As a personal preference, we don’t really use the term “hypercar” while we prefer supercar as a catchall term to describe ultra-exotic high-performance cars. Nevertheless, many exotic car fanatics insist that there should be a distinction between the two and continue using the two terms when they deem it appropriate. We know the basic definition of a hypercar as defined and accepted by most ...
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