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Dump Trucks Set Record
File this one under weird and pointless news. I’ll just let you read a snippet of the AP’s article and let you digest it: Nearly 300 tow trucks rumbled through New York City on Saturday in an attempt to smash the world record for the la...
Bentley, Range Rover Becoming Unprofitable
It looks like Paris got the news about Bentley. What news you ask? Well since we do live in a rather global economy, it should come as no surprise that the failing American economy is hurting economies abroad. According to Sky News, UK car product...
Criminals Break Into Cars During Cancer Fundraiser
Well this one raises the bar, or lowers it I suppose, in terms of thoughtless criminals. While a record 18,000 showed up for the Evansville Indiana Race for the Cure, the cars of the participants cars were being broken into. The event, which was ...
A Little Media Bias in Detroit? Maybe Just a Little
Well, with all that is going on in the world what should the big topic be right now? The economy? The War in Iraq? The fact that medicare and social security are going to cost us billions and leave generation Xers with nothing? No, our media ...
Britney Spears…Driving to Court?
First off, I apologize for the size this photo…but I really wanted to leave it this large because, well…I think it is hilarious. Oh, Brit-Brit, how your past is coming back to haunt you. If you haven’t heard, Britney Spears is lik...
Fuel Efficiency on the Rise
Some good news regarding the roads. Fuel economy for 2008 may be the highest it has been in 15 years. The change is, of course, due to the massive up turn in gas prices, which as in turn lead to a greater array of fuel efficient cars hitting the ...
100 Massachusetts Toll Collectors to be Fired
Well if you haven’t heard of the “Big Dig” it is a large driving tunnel that is under the city of Boston. It’s two claims to fame are going over budget by 12 billion dollars (yes, billion with a b…thank you Ted Kennedy...
The Best Car/Technology News I Have Heard in Years
This is the car news I have been waiting for. Audi is working on technology along with their home city of Ingolstadt, Germany to do something that will bring an almost sexual gratification to every single driver on the face of the earth who hears a...
Houston’s Major Traffic Crisis
Well if you think driving your city is a nightmare, at least it’s not Houston. According to the Houston Chronicle Hurricane Ike caused some major havoc on the highways. The Chronicle spoke with Jeff Weatherford, Houston’s assistant di...
How Will the Chevy Volt do in the Market?
General Motors stock has seen a decline over the last year which might not come as much of a surprise for the company who’s most notably associated with the Hummer and the Cadillac Escalade. As the consumer market increasingly turns towards smaller...
How Much Will Electric Cars Cost?
According to a Sept 18th article, Reuters is speculating that for most Americans, the electric car is only a pipe dream that we won’t see on the trailers of auto transporters anytime soon. The problem is with the expense of these new vehicles...
“Prestigious” Car Show Comes to an End
Well if ever there was a topic to be posted on an auto shipping web site, it is this as reported by the LaCrosse Tribune: For some it was a walk down memory lane, while others used it as a chance to see almost 200 vehicles from a by-gone era up clos...
Smart Car is a Smart Move for Daimler
It looks like the smart car is reaping benefits for Daimler already. The vehicle has already sold over 16 thousand units in little over half a year. Overall sales for Daimler are up, and are at a .5% increase over this time last year. So it is ...
You Will Never Want to Drive Again After Reading This
I hope that this study just pertains to British cars, but I’m certain that it does not exclude us in reality. It seems that a recent study by British scientists discovered that the average U.K car is something like a cross between a used Pame...
Men and Women are Both Just Awful at Driving
I have long held a theory that men and women are equally bad drivers, just in different ways. I think of men as being reckless. A man’s accident involves driving 100mph down the wrong lane, side swiping an ambulance, while barrel rolling pa...
Is That Small Car Going to End Up Costing You Big Bucks?
Small cars are making a comeback, and rightly so, but they are also a massive cost liability in low speed collisions. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is reporting that several small cars can rack up some big costs in little accidents. ...
How Car Companies Plan to Take Your Hard Earned Money
If you follow this blog at all you realize by now that I have a bone to pick with the U.S. auto industry. They are inefficient, poorly managed, produce horrid products, and suck money out of our economy to boot. In the latest turn of events Chrys...
Europe Looks to Improve Auto Safety
Things are looking bright in Europe, especially since the EU has introduced legislation that will require automakers to install daytime running lights in cars by 2011. The idea is to cut down on the number of accidents taking place abroad. “...
Which State Just Banned Texting While Driving?
Listen up Jewel. Alaska just banned all texting while operating a motor vehicle. So if you are doing any type of auto transport in Alaska, you are going to have to wait to send that text…so you don’t have to make a phone call…an...
16 Year-olds Should Not be Allowed to Drive…and Here’s Why.
A recent plea by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety asks that states raise the minimum driving age from 16 to 17. The argument comes from studies that suggest, well, to put it bluntly:16 year-olds kill themselves a lot while driving. The s...
Drunk Driving in the Hispanic Community Addressed
From first hand experience I can tell you that Hispanics make up a disproportionately large quantity of drunk drivers. In my time as a Police Officer, almost every DWI I encountered was a Hispanic, but why? MADD has recently attempted to address th...
Urban Sprawl…the Bane of my Existence
I don’t know about you, but I live in an area with lots of urban sprawl. It seems like no one lives in the city they work in anymore. This doesn’t seem like much of an issue, but when you have hundreds of thousands of people clogging ...
Tax Breaks for Electric Vehicles?
Chrysler is fighting to have a tax credit given for a line of low speed, all electric, autos. Apparently their is some debate over whether the vehicles that Chrysler is working towards getting the tax breaks for are new-enough technology. Accordi...
Is the Smart Car a Death-Trap?
Yesterday we talked about the smart car and how well it has been selling. Today I’d like to talk about it’s safety. In the course of my investigations I came across a really interesting video on You Tube that shows a smart car crashin...
Ike…Kicking Your Butt at the Pumps
Is it the 1970s again? Remember when Jimmy Carter (for those of you too young to remember, Jimmy Carter was the biggest “do nothing” president, perhaps ever) was stupid enough to meddle with the gas prices…and they doubled? Well...
Detroit and a Little Common Sense pt.II
Last time we looked at Detroit, and Michigan in general, and how it’s citizens are struggling with poverty. Doesn’t this make you question why we would ever want to pump $50 billion into the big three auto manufactures (GM, Ford, Chrysl...
Detroit and a Little Common Sense pt.1
Since I have been railing against unions, and the big three in general lately, I’d like to further explain my point. I realize people have jobs at these companies, and my gripe is not with them, they are certainly good hard working people. ...
How GM will Spend your Money
Well, I think I figured out where part of the $50 billion dollars you and I will be paying the big three Detroit automakers will be going. -Towards the production of new, fuel efficient, quality cars that will sell? Ha! No, this is the big three we...
When did we Become Communists?
The last time I checked Wikipedia I think it still had America listed as a capitalist economy, but I am having my doubts and my end up going in and changing our moniker. A little prologue to my comment comes from The Wall Street Journal online whi...
India’s Tata Problem
India is in a bit of a frenzy over the Nano car factory. The Nano is the worlds cheapest car made by Tata motors in India. The following are some high notes about the car from www.tatapeoplescar.com: - Designed with a family in mind, the Nano has...
