Do any of you avoid nighttime driving or have a harder time seeing after dark? You’re not alone – in a recent study by Sylvania, one in five drivers sometimes avoid driving at night because it’s too difficult to see. Interestingly, even though women have been shown to have better night vision than men, women [...]
Every year, SEMA attracts countless custom cars. From mild to wild, tuners show off their latest creations. Each hoping to attract orders for their bodykits/cars/wheels/restoration services. And since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you can always expect to find a few “misses” at the SEMA show. However, these entries are so hideous, [...]
At the beginning of the last decade, the sport utility vehicle (SUV) was the bread and butter of the auto industry. Wanting load-hauling abilities without the gutless performance potential of the minivan, customer interest in SUVs or early crossover vehicles required every automaker to present one such vehicle into the marketplace. For summer of 2000, [...]
We all have to deal with it at least once a day: traffic. It’s inevitable, unless you live in a super small town with one main road and your neighbors are cows. Traffic is a daily annoyance that us city dwellers just can’t escape. And I’m fine with that. However, it seems that the majority [...]
After waiting eagerly for the funky little Ford Fiesta to hit North American soil, I got to thinking; why are all the cool cars in Europe? It’s not the we don’t have “cool” cars here, just that they are so much cooler across the Atlantic. And you might think it’s just a case of the [...]
Throughout Thursday (June 10), a five-letter word brought more controversy than the usage of certain four-letter words. Within a leaked General Motors memo obtained first by the New York Times, it was suggested that company employees were discouraged from saying Chevy in promoting and identifying the Chevrolet lineup. Wearing the name of GM vice president [...]
We all like to personalize our vehicles, a little mascot hanging from the rear view mirror, bumper sticker, perhaps a spray job; but some people just take the whole theme to an extreme, spending huge amounts of cash on turning regular cars into monstrous beasts on four wheels. Any modifications made to your vehicle should [...]
Is the Five-Door Car Hatching an American Return?
Getting the first look at the 2011 new cars, have you been noticing the increased use of the term five-door for vehicles sold in the United States? During the early to mid 1980s every manufacturer sought a way to include the extended rear window to their designs of sedans. Mainly touting itself as aerodynamically more [...]