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Hyundai Scares Up Laughs by Pitting a Ghost Against a Self-Driving Car [VIDEO]

Hyundai Scares Up Laughs by Pitting a Ghost Against a Self-Driving Car [VIDEO]

A lot of debate has been swirling around the development of self-driving cars. Is it possible? What are its benefits? How safe is it? While most outsiders look at the technology as an excuse for self-absorbed people to travel in a vehicle while remaining glued to their phones, automakers are attempting to illustrate the genuine […]

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Jeep Wrangler JK LEGO Model Submitted to the LEGO Ideas Project

Jeep Wrangler JK LEGO Model Submitted to the LEGO Ideas Project

Definitely high up on the list of most common dream jobs is “Professional LEGO Designer.” Many people, both young and old, would cherish the opportunity to create official LEGO sets. Honestly, who wouldn’t love to be paid for playing with LEGO bricks every day? Of course, with the position of LEGO Designer being such a sought-after […]

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Watch a Time-Lapse Video of the Chevy LEGO Batmobile’s Build

Watch a Time-Lapse Video of the Chevy LEGO Batmobile’s Build

When Chevy unveiled the life-size LEGO Batmobile it had built to promote the upcoming LEGO Batman movie, the American automaker touted the amount of blood, sweat, and bat-tears that had gone into the project. According to Chevrolet, it took a combined 2,055 hours to put together the 344,187 LEGO bricks that make up the vehicle […]

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Carlos Ghosn Identifies the Auto Industry’s ‘Disruptive Triangle’

Carlos Ghosn Identifies the Auto Industry’s ‘Disruptive Triangle’

The title of this post might lead you to think that the Renault-Nissan Alliance’s fearless leader, Carlos Ghosn, has decided to join a new religion or cult. In reality, the executive is using ‘Disruptive Triangle’ as a name for the trio of forces that will have a huge impact on automotive technology in the near future. According to Ghosn, […]

 Patrick Grieve

Chevrolet Also Had a Better Year Than You

Chevrolet Also Had a Better Year Than You

If you are a close observer of news and current events, you may have noticed this past year that everything was terrible all of the time. Every musician, actor, famous person, and Wham! lead singer that you’ve ever loved died unexpectedly. Also, there was a presidential election between the two most unpopular presidential candidates in […]

 Kyle Johnson

Cadillac Condemns Casting Call for Neo-Nazi Commercial Role

Cadillac Condemns Casting Call for Neo-Nazi Commercial Role

Are you a Trump voter between the ages of 20-40 looking for your big break in the acting biz? Would you like your face to be associated with one of the auto industry’s most prestigious brands merely by using it to spew your moronic beliefs about the superiority of the white race on camera? Well, today […]

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Nissan GT-R Earns ALG Residual Value Award in Premium Sports Car Category

Nissan GT-R Earns ALG Residual Value Award in Premium Sports Car Category

The Nissan GT-R sports car is all about speed (and that’s the reason most people buy it), but the 2017 model adds something entirely new to the equation: value. That’s because the 2017 Nissan GT-R recently earned the ALG Residual Value Award in the Premium Sports Car segment. “We have always been proud of how […]

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Rideshare Driving and Your Vehicle: Making the Most of Those Extra Miles

Rideshare Driving and Your Vehicle: Making the Most of Those Extra Miles

Many people don’t realize the obvious wear and tear that is going to happen by using their cars for business. Mileage tracking is an often-overlooked aspect of the business and one of the largest missed deductions for rideshare drivers. You’re putting a lot of extra mileage on your car by using it as a rideshare […]

 Kyle Johnson

I Read Opel’s Grumpy Cat Press Release So You Don’t Have To

I Read Opel’s Grumpy Cat Press Release So You Don’t Have To

Have you ever seen one of those horrible parody films that wants so badly to be Airplane or The Naked Gun, but it’s chock full of expired pop culture references that are so out of date that they elicit more groans than laughs? Opel clearly isn’t familiar with the concept, as someone in its marketing […]

 Kyle Johnson

Blu-Ray Review: Fender Bender (2016)

Blu-Ray Review: Fender Bender (2016)

The film Fender Bender is not terribly dissimilar from the only time I was involved in a vehicular collision. I was on my way to work one morning and arrived at the point where the two-lane expressway by my home splits in two directions, which is typically an incredible task for Cincinnati’s hilariously inept drivers […]

 Patrick Grieve

I Don’t Understand What’s Going On in This Chevy Malibu Commercial

I Don’t Understand What’s Going On in This Chevy Malibu Commercial

The 2016 Chevy Malibu has an industry-first safety feature called “Teen Driver System,” which provides parents with a “report card” detailing whether or not their teenaged son or daughter was speeding while driving the car. So yeah, it’s basically a high-tech narc, and should prove about as popular with teens as a robot that reminds […]

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Chevy Poll: Parents Are More Scared of Kids Driving Than Doing Drugs or Having Sex

Chevy Poll: Parents Are More Scared of Kids Driving Than Doing Drugs or Having Sex

Quick, random fact here: back in 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logged the numbers of live births, and found that August was the month with the most live births by more than 10,000 babies. Fast forward to today, a little under a week from the end of August, 16 years later. That’s a […]

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Study: Seriously, Everybody, Relax About Electric Vehicle Range

Study: Seriously, Everybody, Relax About Electric Vehicle Range

Electric vehicles have always had one problem in the eyes of drivers—what many news outlets have dubbed “range anxiety.” Many people, when confronted with the somewhat limited range of the current electric vehicle selection (minus the expensive Model S and Model X, as well as upcoming models) become concerned that the car, while driving far […]

 Patrick Grieve

Chevy’s Got Stacks on Stacks of J.D. Power Awarded Models in New Ad

Chevy’s Got Stacks on Stacks of J.D. Power Awarded Models in New Ad

Chevrolet is back with another entry in the “Real People, Not Actors” canon, this time showcasing just how many of their models finished first in the 2016 J.D. Power Vehicle Dependability Study. (Spoiler Alert: It was four, but the “real people” in the ad don’t seem to know that.) Take a look: Related info: Chevy […]

 Kyle Johnson

Meet Graham, Receive Lifetime Supply of Nightmare Fuel

Meet Graham, Receive Lifetime Supply of Nightmare Fuel

Behold Graham, and you will never want to drive a car again. Or sleep, for that matter.

Hey, were you planning on sleeping any time this month? No? Good. Meet Graham. Graham is the horrifying result of a collaborative exploration into what a human body would look like had it evolved in a direction that makes it better able to survive low-impact car crashes. The result, as you can very well see […]

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Review: The New ‘Ghostbusters’ and Ecto-1

Review: The New ‘Ghostbusters’ and Ecto-1

This weekend, the new Ghostbusters reboot finally made it into theaters. Before the film even hit the screen, it was ridiculed by fans upset that a studio would think such a classic would need to be remade. When it was announced that the new team of ghoul fighters would be all women, the uproar grew […]

 Patrick Grieve

Chevrolet’s Pandering Millennial Commercials Are Becoming Self-Aware

Chevrolet’s Pandering Millennial Commercials Are Becoming Self-Aware

In the past, this website has been sharply critical of Chevrolet’s various ad campaigns, particularly the ones that seem to pander to Millennials in a way that smacks of desperation. For example, we thought that Chevy’s Trax commercial featuring Instagram-loving, vintage-clothes-wearing, Chuck-Taylor-clad twentysomethings was a little too on-the-nose. And then, we thought it was even […]

 Patrick Grieve

Shape-Shifting Blackbird Rig is the Future of Car Commercials [VIDEO]

Shape-Shifting Blackbird Rig is the Future of Car Commercials [VIDEO]

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but you can’t believe everything you see on TV. That’s especially true when it comes to the world of marketing. Though the Federal Trade Commission still exists to protect consumers from false advertising, our nation’s television commercials are still full of misleading information, half-truths, fine print, airbrushed cheeseburgers, and […]