Category: Misc

The 51% Minority: Women's Buying Power

The 51% Minority: Women’s Buying Power

This is a guest post by Jody from AskPatty.com
Who is the 51% “minority” that accounts for 85% of all consumer purchases? Women.
Women purchase more than 51% of all new cars and influence the purchase decision of 85% of all new cars sold in the U.S., yet shopping for a new car still remains a unpleasant [...]

Kids On Driver's Licenses: Meh!

Kids On Driver’s Licenses: Meh!

Well this is really odd: according to statistics from the Federal Highway Administration, there are less teens with driver’s licenses then a decade ago.
It used to be one half of 16 year olds had them, now it’s a third. Demographically speaking, that’s a HUGE drop.
I guess what I want to know is, what’s the driver… [...]

Evolution of Car Logos

Evolution of Car Logos

Over at Neatorama there’s a really cool bit about the evolution of car company logos over time.
They look at the logos for Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, Audi (and Auto Union), BMW, Buick, Cadillac, Fiat, Ford, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Peugeot, Renault, Saab and Volkswagen.
For a lot, there’s a nice through-line from where the company started, and [...]

The More You Talk, The Slower You Drive

The More You Talk, The Slower You Drive

From the files of the obvious, comes word of a new study that points out that driving in traffic and talking on a cell phone makes you drive slower.
Well duh!
Psychology professor David Strayer, at the University of Utah says that drivers on the phone tend to cruise “about 2 miles-per-hour slower on commuter-clogged roads than [...]

Brits Anti-Speed Cam Revolt

Brits Anti-Speed Cam Revolt

So, is there a British version of Howard Beale out there that I didn’t know about?
I ask this because it seems there’s an organized group of Englishmen out there that really, really hate traffic cameras.
For those of you that didn’t know, England has one of the most spied upon populations on the planet. There are [...]

My Christmas Gift: Sleep Deprivation!

My Christmas Gift: Sleep Deprivation!

Following up on Tony’s post So What’d Ya Get, I got an auto-related gift for Christmas…
In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a huge video-game fan – particularly of racing games. Previously, my obsession with the Playstation 2 has gotten the better of me with awesome racing games like Gran Turismo 4 and Need for Speed: [...]

So, What'd Ya Get?

So, What’d Ya Get?

So Christmas 2007 is over (whew!), and the current question is: What did you get for the holidays?
Me? I got a bunch of non car related stuff, but more importantly, it looks like my folks (still going strong in their late 80s) re-upped my Automobile Quarterly subscription.
Ah, Automobile Quarterly … and it’s not all brass [...]

Tokyo Traffic Control Center

Tokyo Traffic Control Center

And you think you’ve got job pressures?
Good God, just think what it must be like for these guys.
Imagine what it must be like, you’re just sitting there, things are going along just fine when BANG, a transformer pops and down goes a traffic light at the third busiest intersection in town followed two minutes later [...]

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