Fun on Two Wheels
Great article talks about transportation on two wheels!! Here’s an interesting thought: there are some 200 million motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, and trikes currently on the world’s roads. It’s definitely not hard to see why, especially in countries like India, China, and Africa, where they outnumber cars and trucks. It’s not…
Cool Touch Screen Tech for your Steering Wheel
Distance driving can be mind-numbingly boring, but looking away from the road to text or change songs is a life-or-death gamble. Plus, buttons embedded in the wheel only control a fraction of a car’s functionality. Now German researchers have a wheel prototype that puts everything within reach — no glancing…
Winter Fun: Plow Driver Gets Canned
Ever feel like your local plow drivers were purposely putting more snow on your car as some sick, cruel torture to make winter even worse? Well, up in Lowell, Mass., a working-class suburb north of Boston, one guy really was. Because he filmed it and uploaded the video to YouTube….
Toyota Recalls One Million Vehicles
Toyota says it is recalling a total of more than 1 million vehicles, including some late-model luxury cars, due to a pair of safety problems involving defective airbags and faulty windshield wipers. The announcement comes during the same week the maker confirmed it regained its title in 2012 as the…
Car Maker Products that are not Cars
Car companies succeed, more or less, at one thing: creating automobiles. But that doesn’t stop them from chasing brand extension. Whether flexing design muscle or chasing another way to cash in, automakers release products that no one really asks for: redesigned bikes, furniture, iPhone cases, and even boats. Read the…
Vette has it’s Eye on Ferrari and Porsche
Not that I would not love to own any of them. It’s long been known as “America’s sports car.” But as Chevrolet gets ready to roll out the latest version of the Corvette, that’s clearly no longer good enough for the General Motors division. When the all-new model, known to…
No Flat Tire Technology…
from the 60’s!!
Junkyard Poem!!
This is a first for me! A published poem about a junkyard! For Hoppe, that means the poems in his newly released book Diamond Plate (Obsolete Press, $10.00) should appeal as much to the mechanics he grew up with in the Michigan Rust Belt as to his peers in the…
Self-Service Salvage Yards Growing
Many DYI’ers want the option of pulling their own parts from auto salvage yards for even more savings!! It takes a lot for an industry with more than 8,000 businesses and $22 billion in annual sales to change direction. That’s what’s happening now in automotive recycling, where self-serve salvage yards…