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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More Exotic Cars on Google Street View Maps

If you're like us and love spotting expensive exotic cars out in public then you may like exploring Google Street View. This is our fifth installment in our Google Street View series and we encourage you to read our previous Google exotic car spotting posts to learn about various successful car spotting techniques as well as several hundred amazing exotics discovered throughout the ...

List of Classic American Muscle Cars

Although countries such as Brazil, United Kingdom and Australia have produced their fair share of classic muscle cars; America is considered to be the undisputed king of classic muscle cars. So what is a classic muscle car? Not all car enthusiasts agree on the muscle car definition, but we consider it to be a high-horsepower coupe with an occupancy greater than 2 people. "Classic" is also ...

Top 10 Classic American Muscle Cars

Perhaps one of the most exciting periods in automotive history was during the production years of the classic American muscle car. Muscle cars were big, loud and ultra-powerful rubber burning machines. During the 1960's and 70's the American automakers progressively became more competitive with their muscle car offerings. Each year it seemed Ford, Chevy, Chrysler or even AMC would out-do ...