- Bringing the Volt to the Market, One City at a Time
The Chevrolet Volt is General Motors' electric car project the first of what the automaker hopes will be several vehicles sharing what is now called the Voltec platform. Powered by a lithium-ion battery that will go 40 miles on a single charge, the Volt will also be equipped with a 1.4L I4 engine which will help to extend its range.
- Five Things You Need to Consider When Selecting a Car Cover
A car cover is a great and convenient way of providing your car with a layer of robust protection that will keep it looking good and maintain the value of your investment in it. The odd scratch and ding dramatically reduces the look of your vehicle's appearance and more radically reduces the dollar value of your investment!
- An Action Plan to Encourage Safer Driving Amongst Young People
Research from the IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists) has revealed that age, inexperience and gender are the factors the impact most on the safety of young drivers.
- How to Get Cheaper Student Car Insurance
If you are a young undergraduate looking to save money you could benefit from shopping around for cheaper young driver car insurance. After making an all-important budget which includes necessities such as rent, food and bills you may not believe you have enough pennies to purchase young driver car insurance.
- Rise of the 4X4 - Loss of My Sleeping Pattern
I am often prone to making terrible mistakes; often putting myself or others lives at risk. This has been a recurring theme throughout my life and I'm sure it will persist until the day I die...probably in some horrific incident of my own creation. One of the myriad of choices that has come back to bite me rather fervently on the bottom, was my insistence on moving into a flat on a school road. I moved in on the Sunday afternoon and regretted my decision at roughly 8 AM on the Monday. I was rudely awoken by streams of traffic roaring and whirring outside my (sadly single-glazed) window. I noticed that virtually every vehicle of the seemingly never-ending metallic pilgrimage bizarrely seemed to be a 4X4, in which sat one driver and one child. I marvelled at the sheer ridiculousness of the vision before me; hundreds of vehicles designed to hold many passengers, actually transporting a bare minimum. "The world has gone insane", I mused to myself...there was no one round to hear me so my utterance went unnoticed.
- The Magnificent World of Hybrid Cars
Are you thinking of buying a car? A hybrid car can be your perfect solution. In short these cars use more than two power sources for moving. The power resources used in these cars are gasoline, compressed air, hydrogen, solar, natural gas, wind and rechargeable energy storage system. (Hybrid systems can be used in two wheelers, heavy vehicles that include trucks, cars and even boats as well. )The choice of car is the most vital and should be made after much research and giving some thought to environment factors as well. If you go for hybrid cars, you will realize they are the most affordable, efficient and highly innovative. They follow the system of fuel economy. They require much less fuel in comparison to others. The main reason for the popularity of hybrid cars is that they are considered to be the best gas mileage cars.
- 4x4’s and How They Work
The 4x4 specialist team at Sureterm Direct unravels the mysteries of driving a 4x4 and how and why it all works.
- Finding Dependable Auto Shipping
Millions of cars get shipped around the US each year. This is one of the most economical ways of moving a vehicle across a long distance without creating wear and tear on the vehicle itself.
- The Mitsubishi Colt: Sink or Swim?
The Mitsubishi Colt is yet another hatchback that has found itself lumped in with a myriad of others in the saturated supermini market. This market is very much sink or swim recently and to stay afloat your car has got to have something a little different or special to attract interest. So will the Mitsubishi Colt be riding along on the crest of a wave or sinking irretrievably amidst the gloomy waters of supermini failure?
- Top 3 Luxurious Vehicles of 2008
The topmost vehicles for 2008 have come out after various researches that were done over the year. Results of the latest quarterly brand watch report shows that; consumer’s perceptions of domestic brands remain favorable in many categories, especially in the truck segment. This was a research basically done by an editorial editor and executive marketer.