Archive for December, 2010

Gearhead Gift Guide: Did You Forget to Get a Gift for Your Car?

Gearhead Gift Guide: Did You Forget to Get a Gift for Your Car?

Christmas has come and gone, we spent time with and bought all sorts of stuff for our family and friends. But chances are you forgot to give a gift to one of the most important parts of your family – your car. How dare you! Sitting out there, all alone in the cold. Don’t you [...]

Surviving Winter Driving

Surviving Winter Driving

While some fortunate motorists and automobiles endure a winter season simply by wearing pants or a jacket during cooler temperatures, upper parts of the North American continent are routinely introduced to a change in lifestyle between December to April. The downpour of flurries and sometimes blistery cold climate conditions causes many to rethink their driving [...]

Kia to Introduce Kitschy KV7 Concept in Detroit

Kia to Introduce Kitschy KV7 Concept in Detroit

With only days remaining in 2010, Kia Motors has aligned themselves for the best year in their company’s 66-year history. Enjoying a 16.8 percent sales increase in the North American market for 2010 on the end of November, Kia Motors has been raking in praise for their vast improvement in creating desirable vehicles. Among the [...]

Gearhead Gift Guide: After Holiday Gift Ideas

Gearhead Gift Guide: After Holiday Gift Ideas

  So this is Christmas! With all due respect to the various readers of automoblog.net as well as to the truer meaning of togetherness and community on this December 25th day, this holiday can be regarded as the most valuable event commercially. Many of us have been honoured with much-wanted gift item under the Christmas [...]

Ford Set To Overtake Toyota for Number 2 Position in 2010

Ford Set To Overtake Toyota for Number 2 Position in 2010

As 2010 draws to a close, the picture for general automotive industry and particularly the American manufacturers has improved greatly. Industry numbers in 2008 and 2009 were horrific and drove General Motors and Ford into bankruptcy. Now, sales are on the upswing and Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rates (SAAR) are set to return to more normal [...]

Timely Expense for Capturing an Exotic Car Lifestyle

Timely Expense for Capturing an Exotic Car Lifestyle

  So the exotic ride of your dreams is unlikely to be awaiting you in the new year? The ultra-elite stimulant of a six or even now seven-digit automobile is untouchable for many motorist taste buds to ever comprehend. While those in the possession of an extravagant automobile needs little assistance in advertising their status, [...]

Gearhead Gift Guide: OBDII Scanners

Gearhead Gift Guide: OBDII Scanners

If you have a Gearhead on your gift list this year and you’re clueless as to what to get him, we’ve got you covered. Below, we explain what an OBDII scanner is, why your Gearhead wants one, and go over the differences of a few units based on skill level and what they need it [...]

Luxury Reigns Affordable with 2011 Chrysler 300

Luxury Reigns Affordable with 2011 Chrysler 300

Lacking the ability and resources to bring an assortment of new vehicles to the market, Chrysler Group’s plan for a more prosperous corporate future relies on surviving the next few years until the company (along with their partner Fiat Group) can completely reinvent itself. Giving practically their entire product lineup of Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep [...]