Time Machines Event in CT
Love the classics, can’t get enough of them! If you’re in the New York City area this weekend and have a craving for a good ol’ fashioned summertime car show, take a drive up Interstate 95 to Guilford, Conn., for the 35th annual Time Machines gathering. This long-running show held…
Toyota’s New Chairman to Resurect the Supra
Toyota Motor Corp.’s incoming chairman said he wants the sports car the company is developing with BMW to be a midsized vehicle comparable to the discontinued Supra. Toyota’s next sports car should be like the Supra so that it doesn’t overlap with the 86 coupe, Takeshi Uchiyamada said in an…
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…
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…