Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Like their mothers and grandmothers before them, today's cohort of young female car buyers is much more enthusiastic about owning a car that helps ensure their safety and security than they are in buying a car which promises them a sporty ride. So why doesn't more automotive advertising reflect this ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Technology that wasn't even dreamed of a decade ago is starting to show up in modern cars, and instead of being restricted to upscale models it can often be found in low-priced cars as well.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
There's enough credit available for people to buy cars, says a study by www.edmunds.com, but a lack of consumer confidence is keeping them from taking the leap to a new vehicle.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
First off, carrying your beloved pet on your lap so that it can be trapped between the airbag and your body in a crash an incredibly stupid thing to do. Really, how bad will you feel when you kill your best friend like that?So it's a good thing that more ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
More people are going back to doing the things they like to do because they don't have to save money to pay for the gas to do the things they have to do.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
This survey doesn't actually draw that conclusion or even mention cars, but it's easy to jump to if you're running a website called Car News For Women.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
There's a mistake in this blog that makes you think the whole story might be a total fabrication, but it still imparts a message that will speak to a lot of women.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
This story from the UK takes a look at the way men and women perceive the underlying messages of different gifts and what songs British men like to put on mix tapes. Men should probably read this more than women, but that's not going to happen.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
These European highway traffic signs are gibberish in any language, but still amusing.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Ordinarily cars have gauges in the instrument panel that tell you when something's happening, either good or bad, but starting soon some of Ford's cars will display leaves in the electronic display when the driver's not using much gas.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
An interest in this item could be the universe's way of telling you have too much disposal income.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
While it could certainly benefit from a more extended version of history or a fuller grasp of the facts, the theory that the good-natured heroine of a mid-90s movie might be responsible for our current economic mess is nevertheless entertaining.
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
This is pretty good advice from an organization that's nowhere near as reliable or infallible as most people believe, but you should be careful about taking Item 5 at face value. Sometimes buying the deal is the best way to get the best price with the least amount of effort. ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Some people in China think that global economic concern will cause buyers to think about that country's car brands -- Geely, Chery, Lifan, Brilliance and China Wall, among others -- when the time comes to buy something inexpensive.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
If you're thinking of going to a smaller car to save money on gas, you could end up paying more for insurance and that could wipe out the fuel economy gain. Most importantly, you'd be paying more for insurance because the smaller cars are likely to cost the insurance companies ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Useful advice for parents, particularly with regard to creating a driving contract for your teens to sign.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
While there's certainly a unique slant of things in the UK (what's a "grafter"?), there's plenty of truth in the situation for women in North America with regards to working in the car business.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
It's hard to imagine that anyone with a car and an iPhone couldn't use at least one of these software systems.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
The important thing about servicing your car is that you strike a balance between doing too little and doing too much. The former could end in disaster, but the latter can cost you more money than required.
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
What life is like if you're a tall, thin beauty of 19 years living in London when your father makes about $30,000 an hour as the boss of F1 racing and you're trying to start a (what else?) clothing empire.
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
In which we learn way more than we ever expected to about what life can be like in Korea when you don't have your own car.
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
A discussion about how people should give up driving somewhere for dating purposes and look for love locally, all in the name of the environment.
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Sure the crash had a lot to do with the foggy and wet conditions, but the Michigan teenagers and the baby probably died in the two-car crash because lots of people weren't wearing their seatbelts.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Various upgrades to a car-sharing plan operated by Daimler in Ulm, Germany, with super-tiny Smart models could increase the concept's acceptability with the public. The biggest change lets the consumer leave the car wherever they happen to end up.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
A woman considers the state of modern manners and how they can be improved, such as men opening a car door for a woman, which is the modern version of a bouquet of flowers? Judge for yourself.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
In pursuit of cars whose "inmates" are involved in "foul play," the field workers of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue And Prevention of Vice in Saudi Arabia have caused various crashes and much consternation. This is especially interesting when you see their definition of those moral violations.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
The favorite transportation of many real world Gossip Girls and their ultra-rich parents may soon depart the streets of Manhattan in an effort to improve the environment with higher-mileage cars.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Even with their significant improvements in fuel economy over the regular models, the two hybrid SUVs have found limited acceptance in a market that seems to have turned its back on such big vehicles. The company is promising a hybrid version of its full-size Ram pickup in 2010.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
A leading North American auto journalist praises Car Advice For Women (and Smart Men), which naturally enough pleases those of us who wrote the book. it's the kind of third-party endorsement authors can usually only dream about.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
For a while now various firms have been offering parents the chance to keep an eye on what their teens are doing in the family car, which is supposed to reduce the risk of crashes and deaths. But there's also been considerable generational angst, and that has caused other problems.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
While the writer of this piece is not known for his aversion to exaggeration, he is known for making hard points in an extremely entertaining fashion. Here he takes a look at the idea of people switching from cars to motorcycles in an attempt to save money on gas.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
In Egypt, 98 percent of foreign female visitors are faced with sexual harassment of some kind, and for Egyptian women it's 83 percent. So the young woman who went to great lengths to get the guy who groped her on the streets of Cairo charged did a remarkable thing, and ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Before you have a look at this story, try to guess what the current record for a land-bound vehicle is. That will be easier to figure out than why these two guys want to go that fast.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
There's no guarantee that either plan will actually come into effect, but at least it might be helpful to see how John McCain and Barack Obama feel about the subject of low-emissions vehicles.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Some things never change, but other things do, which is why the kind of reckless person who doesn't mind putting others at risk is now being caught by ever-evolving technology.
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