With the holiday weekend extending from today through Tuesday, we thought some driving safety hints would be useful. Check out this listing from Automotive.com.
Have a happy-and safe-Fourth of July holiday.
Automaker DaimlerChrysler announced today it will export the SMART car into the U.S. market sometime in 2008. Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad move, too?
Can one predict when a regular consumer will be purchasing a car? Even better, what kind of car? Such a feat would be manna for auto makers and car dealers but seems as impossible as predicting the next major California earthquake. Apparently, though, it may not be as impossible as it sounds.
Atlantic Mutual, an insurance company, wrote up six ways to insure (pardon the pun) one’s teen drivers won’t be driving up their insurance rates. PR Newswire obtained three of them, including:
Over at The BMW Blog, blogger “Mike” posted an interesting view of the BMW 3 and 7-Series. In his post, he states that BMW should have implemented the now-infamous iDrive on the 3-Series first instead of the 7. Why? Because younger drivers are “…looking for something new. They are willing and accustomed to learning new technology.”
Over in Cars!Cars!Cars!, I found a post that summarized, succinctly, how the media currently felt towards the Ford Motor Co.: too slow, shabby products, glacial,
empty promises, moving like a turtle.
Why isn’t anyone giving Ford a chance?
I don’t streetracing, having heard the results from my spouse who’s had to treat the remains of would-be racers even from legit locals. But I’m not against the…sport…if the drivers keep off the streets.
So it’s with mixed feelings I read news of police crackdowns on street-racing.
Thomas Friedman’s opinion/editiorial in the NY Times has caused a firestorm within the enthusiats community. In brief, he accuses GM for “addicting” Americans to gas-guzzling SUVs which then fuels our insatiable demand for fuel which more money to oil-producing terrorist nations, yaddayadda.
Please. Spare us your simplistic, delusional thinking.
I’m at a crossroad in my automotive interest and the NAV system just went blank. (Damned Micro$oft.)
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