How is it that Ford has completely overhauled the F150 twice since I was in high school, but the Ranger looks exactly the same? A friend of mine bought one of these in the early 90s…and I was surprised to find while browsing Ford’s site today that aside from some minor front end changes, it’s [read more]

I’ve been driving around with a screw in a tire for about a week now because I dreaded spending forever at Discount Tire for a fix. I planned on doing it at lunch today until my boss mentioned having his car aligned at a place down the street. I thought I’d give it a shot [read more]

Or at least try to stop slacking. Look for changes coming soon!

While watching Top Gear, I saw a Mercedes ad which totes its E-Class as the most advanced car in the world. The Voiceover man proudly proclaims that the car can help awaken it’s driver, keep the driver in his lane if he starts to wander, and stop itself if the driver becomes distracted. I’m thinking [read more]

I’ll admit that the government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program has me regretting buying a car in April instead of waiting for the program, but a recent article on MSNBC voiced concerns about how it’s hurting the used car industry, charities, mechanics and ultimately lower-income buyers. I had wondered before how the government plans on paying [read more]

Chris and I are watching a show on the Pierce Fire Truck Factory in Wisconsin and it’s got me thinking about how they’re such a symbol of the US. There are 33,000 fire departments in the US and they’ve all got trucks. And the best are red, of course. My hometown uses a weird green [read more]

According to DuPont’s 2006 Color Popularity Report, silver is the most popular automotive color in the world. Silver holds 19% of the market in North America. In Japan a whopping 27% of vehicles are silver. Black is the next most popular, except in Japan and North America where white is the second favorite (perhaps because [read more]

We bought a rear facing infant seat, the type with the carrier that pops out so we can carry around Baby like a sack of groceries. Last night we tried to install it for the first time (we don’t have Baby yet). I won’t even go into how stupid the LATCH layout on my 2007 [read more]

One horsepower is 33,000 foot pounds per minute or work done/time We call it horsepower because James Watt, inventor of a new type of steam engine, wanted to relate to customers how powerful his engines were. He wanted to say the engines could replace 2 or 3 of their horses. The most popular theory about [read more]

I sold the Audi yesterday.  I owned Pig (so named because of her massive weight) for almost 4 years and I think I put more miles on her than any other car I’ve owned including my Mustang, which I owned for 10 years.  Kind of sad to see her go, but I found a buyer [read more]