Archive for the ‘Cute stories’ Category
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Safety experts everywhere will tell you that what this Australian woman did was wrong, wrong, wrong and they'd be right, right, right, but it's still a "bonzer" story.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Responding to a growing demand for ways to go green, more European cities put communal bicycles on their old streets using the newest technology.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
This seems like a good idea, since you have to do your seatbelt up for the colorful and large corsage to be visible, and anything that gets people doing up their seatbelts is a great idea.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
You have to see the picture of this car in action to appreciate how it works, and how wonderful it would be to have one in many, many situations.
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
This should entertain all those guys who think the only thing stopping them from a career in NASCAR or F1 is sponsorship support.
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Joel Stein of the LA Times makes it absolutely clear that he knows very little about cars except that claim about women and sex and then goes on to prove it, but in a funny way. His observation about how newspapers are run alone makes the time spent reading it ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
A reporter for the LA Times goes from New York to The Coast in a 10-year-old Chevrolet Venture and gets a lot better fuel economy than the official statistics say he should. Plus he gets to take his wife, dog and a bunch of stuff along with him, which small ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
A man reflects on the way his wife does not respond to a dirty car or a low fuel light.
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Now this is the kind of thing hockey fans want to see on YouTube. For non-hockey fans, a Zamboni is the garage-sized machine that rolls around the ice between the periods of a hockey game resurfacing the ice. So when the machine at a rink near the Detroit-Windsor border starting ...
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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
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
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
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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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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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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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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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Those cable cars in San Francisco are for sure romantic, but every now and then they have a little crash that costs the city big time in payouts to passengers. A payout from 1964 is still the best.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Miss Wisconsin is unable to fulfill her duties because someone with no insurance crashed into her car, leaving her without any funds to pay for the repairs to get it back on the road.
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
An LA Times writer does an excellent, funny job of explaining why a truly fabulous car like the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is sometimes worth destroying the planet for.
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
It was only about a decade ago that GM introduced built-in VCRs (remember them?) to its minivans to meet what they thought would be a tiny market segment. Well since the Oldsmobile Silhouette Premiere's debut the market for in-car entertainment has exploded and it's sometimes hard to keep up with ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Yes, that would be a big plastic flower that attaches to the car's seatbelt or dashboard to deliver "the ultimate feminine touch" and "brighten your drive in the gloomy winter months." It was created by a UK accessories designer called Johnny Loves Rosie.
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
A 1980 Ford Mustang that screen legend Bette Davis bought in LA to celebrate her 72nd birthday is going to auction this week in Las Vegas. The star of over 100 films will also have a US Post Postal Service stamp created to celebrate the centennial of her birth.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
A blog about how to live you life and what's important and what isn't.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
A discussion of where the line of male acceptability falls for women. Finding out if he doesn't worry about having a job is one thing, but asking about what kind of car he drives or how much money he makes is something else.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
In an effort to break away from the regular advertising arc for cars, Honda actually built something into a stretch of road north of Los Angeles that played a few notes of music every time a car drove over it. This amused some drivers but also annoyed many of the ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
The decision to restore a 50-year-old Corvette after it was ruined in Hurricane Katrina helps a family cement its history and develop a tradition for future generations to follow.
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Hovercrafts actually make some sense if you have rough terrain or water to traverse, and one that lifts six feet off the ground might have additional uses. And it's less money than you might think. Imagine how the man in your life would love it, or some of the other ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
A staple of TV and movies for years, giving birth in the back of a police car actually happened to a woman near Liverpool, England. As the policeman raised through traffic to the hospital, the mother worried that she was going to make a mess in the back of the ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Best of all, it comes with a holiday on the Riviera as well as a whole bunch of boring old car stuff.
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
The notion of a car with features to please women may sound off-putting, but many of the details make a lot of sense and it can be ordered to suit an individual taste.
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