Donate Your Used Car to Help Train Local Firefighters
It’s the start of a new year— the perfect time to consider donating your old beater and purchasing a newer one. An often overlooked venue that is constantly in need of used cars is your local fire department. According to the Millburn Fire Department in New Jersey, old cars are used “to practice vehicle extrication, which […]
Nitro Dice Review: A Spunky Street Racing Card Game
Not all motorsports are posh, high-class endeavors like rich sponsors would want you to believe. For people who race on the streets with their own cars, it’s rough, gritty, and edgy. Nitro Dice, a game by David E. Whitcher, focuses on that underground world of street racing, bringing it to life through cards and […]
Should Our Self-Driving Cars Be Electric or Hybrid?
Self-driving vehicles have brought up a number of hotly-debated topics to the automotive industry, including whether or not self-driving cars will work on roads with human drivers on them, how people around the car will know what it is trying to do, or even whether or not self-driving cars will destroy the truck driver job […]
Winter Car Safety: Always Scrape the Ice Off the Top of Your Car, Not Just the Windshield
If you park your car outside during the winter months, you know that scraping the ice off your vehicle can be a huge hassle in the morning. You may want to hurry it up and simply get enough off your car to see out the windshield, but cutting corners can cause some major safety concerns. Around this […]
Buyer Beware: Returning a Used Car is Next to Impossible
A used car purchase warrants a lot of positives. According to MoneyCrashers.com Writer Jason Steele, buyers of a used car can expect these pros when buying used — less expensive price tag and less depreciation than a new car; little or zero sales tax; decreased vehicle registration fees; and because cars are now engineered with […]
Don’t Overlook This Vital Safety Component of Your Kid’s Car Seat
Parents are still failing at installing car seats. In fact, according to a survey by SafeKids.org, “64 percent of caregivers who showed up at a Safe Kids Buckle Up checkup event with a child in a forward-facing car seat were not using a tether.” What’s the tether you ask? Well, “it’s the strap with a […]
Superhero Cars: Automotive Brand Sponsorships in Marvel Movies
Acura, Audi, Chevy, Ford, and Lexus all make appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Who would’ve ever thought that superhero movies like Guardians of the Galaxy and Thor: Ragnarok would be the highest-grossing films of the year? These days, Marvel’s live-action feature films are box office gold, raking in millions of dollars globally. Not only are these adventure flicks money-making opportunities for producers and the studio, they’re prime real estate for companies […]
Study: Pokemon Go Craze May Have Caused Over 100,000 Extra Crashes
This is it, people—we’ve reached it. We have hit peak Millennial. Two professors from Perdue University have conducted a study that estimates that the people playing the Pokémon GO phone game while driving have caused more than 100,000 crashes. …well, sort of. The study itself was on traffic data in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and somewhat […]
Gift Ideas for Car Lovers – Part 1
Although many people launched into holiday shopping mode on Black Friday, others prefer Cyber Monday as the officially date to kick off their spending. With Christmas just around the corner, you likely have a few challenging friends or family members on your gift list. Here are five gift ideas for the car junkie in your […]
Harrison Ford Helps Save Motorist Trapped After Car Accident
The famous Hollywood actor, best known for his roles as Han Solo and Indiana Jones, performed a heroic act of his own after witnessing a nearby car accident
To entire generations of kids, Han Solo and Indiana Jones were two of the coolest heroes around. As it turns out, Harrison Ford, the actor who played both of these characters, is something of a hero himself. This past weekend, Ford helped rescue a motorist trapped in her vehicle following a major rollover accident. Famous […]
Orange Park Woman Living out of Car, Annoying the Neighbors
A transgender woman from a community in Orange Park, Florida is making some waves. She’s currently living out of her white Chevy Camaro, parked on the edge of a swampy two-acre plot of land she recently purchased for the bargain price of $5k. As John Gordon, one of the local neighbors, articulates: “There’s a tarp […]
YouTuber and Car-Enthusiast Doug DeMuro Celebrates 1 Million Subscribers: Top Video Moments
Doug DeMuro is well-known for his columns on Autotrader as well as his often viral car review videos on YouTube. Doug travels the United States, checking out viewers’ cars to review them and give them a quick test drive. Recently, Doug hit the 1 million subscriber mark on YouTube, a huge milestone for any creator. To […]
InsureMyTesla Launches in U.S. as the Car Insurance Industry is Set to Change
Just last month, Tesla released its new car insurance add-on product, InsureMyTesla, for U.S. buyers. It previously released this offering to 20 countries overseas, where it has been a huge success. This initiative aims to simplify the vehicle ownership process for consumers since it eliminates the extra step of obtaining car insurance elsewhere. It brings […]
Car Insurance Casts a Protection Spell on Halloween
Beggar’s Night can bring out the best and worst in holiday revelers. There are the adorable little trick-or-treaters politely asking for candy at your door and then there are the pranksters who delight in smashing pumpkins, egging houses, and throwing toilet paper through the trees. And, if your car is in the line of pumpkin […]
Four Frightening Urban Legends That Involve Cars
Halloween has grown from a single, magical night into something of a season unto itself. Each year, we flock to theaters and couches to watch frightening cinema classics or the latest horror hits, visit haunted attractions for the sole purpose of being scared by strangers in masks, and gather around bonfires to regale one another […]
IIHS Updates Crash Tests for Better Passenger-Side Protection
A few years ago, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety started doing a new kind of crash test, meant to check how safe a car is when hitting a thin obstacle in the front corner, called the small-overlap crash test. This test led to a mad scramble among automakers to improve their crashworthiness in that […]
Abandoned Cars Are Auctioned Off at the Pittsburgh Airport
The Pittsburgh International Airport brings approximately 8 million travelers through its doors each year. Naturally, in the hustle and bustle of an airport, people tend to forget things and leave things behind during their travels. This creates a steady inventory of lost-and-found items for the airport, including abandoned vehicles. It’s still unclear how or why […]
Racecar Drivers Get in a Fist Fight After Collision on the Anderson Speedway [VIDEO]
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These two racecar drivers take road rage to a whole new level. Saturday night, the Anderson Speedway hosted a racing event that ended in a fist fight and two drivers handcuffed in the back of police cars. The night’s penultimate race began as usual, but during the middle of the race, a black race car, […]