The recent occurrence of Hurricane Matthew left many people across several states without power, with flooded homes and cities and downed a ton of trees and limbs. The damage that can be done when a tree falls on a vehicle, a home or across a fence is horrific and it can be worse when life is at stake. In order to protect property and people from potential harm many brought items into their homes to avoid them from becoming projectiles during the storm or from being the target of flying objects or falling trees that could potentially destroy property.
Lorie Wimble
Even Crash Testers Want to Have Some Fun
You might think working in a crash test lab would be one of the most fun jobs in the world. You get paid to crash vehicles into walls day after day using a variety of crashes and measuring the results. While this data driven destruction job is certainly one that can be a lot of fun for some people, the monotony of crashing vehicles constantly can get boring after a while and cause a person to want to crash something else. For the most part this may mean looking for nearly anything you can with four wheels to crash into a wall.
California Continues to be the Technologically Progressive State
Nearly every state allows the testing of some autonomous vehicles on their road provided these vehicles are equipped with human controls that can easily take over when the car begins to perform in a manner that’s not in accordance with the laws and rules of the road. This allows companies to collect data and know how often the human driver has to take over, but if the vision of most companies for autonomous driving is to offer vehicles that don’t need human controls to allow for the corrections needed, they have to be able to test their vehicles without human drivers.
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Another Car Contest Has a Glorious Winner
One way for a business to gain attention and advertising is to host and sponsor car contests. This has aided some of the most prestigious companies in the world become exceptional performers in their markets and keeps their names at the forefront of potential customers to help bring in business. This is the case with a brand new car contest that’s been added which has a deep thread of judging and an impressive way of creating a lot of excitement about cars that have been restored the way they should be.
The Worst of the Worst
Often we look at different vehicles and find some form of a redeeming quality in them. This is even the case when it comes to something as awful as the Yugo was which was only loved for the fact that the price tag was so small. Other than the price the Yugo had nothing positive to offer us and it has become the staple of comparison for the most unreliable vehicles on the market. With that in mind, let’s take a look, even if it’s only for humor’s sake, at some of the most unreliable vehicles ever to come to market.
Classic Car Ads that Got Us Started
Taking up advertising space on your TV is not a new concept, just the high price to have the prime spots during the Super Bowl is. For as long as there have been television commercials cars have been sold this way to show you a new car that would be the next great ride for your family to enjoy. While we often admire and love classic cars, let’s take a look at some classic car commercials that show us where advertising began and can give you a great idea of just how far we have come from those early days of advertising.
How Does the Ford Focus RS Give You Value?
The amazing thing we see today is automakers trying to sell us on cars that are extremely expensive but only shave a small amount of time off the speed of a car that you can have for around $40,000. While it’s not likely you will ever see a Ford Focus RS on the same track with any Ferrari or Porsche model, the difference in price for the speed gained puts horsepower and track times at a premium. If you are going to spend a lot of time at the track and want a winner, the investment might make sense, but if you simply want a car that has good power and is lots of fun, the Ford Focus RS is a great choice.
Where is the Mazdaspeed?
Normally we expect to see the lineup from Mazda carry forth the “zoom zoom” mantra that has been around for years and continues to be a true way Mazda can show off its love for giving us cars that are quick and decisive on the road. Most of the time this comes in the form of the Miata, which we still get to enjoy, and the Mazda 3 and Mazda 6 both receiving the Mazdaspeed treatments to make them high performance sedans that can be a lot of fun to drive and offer some excitement for us to admire and love.
Mazda Just Won’t Let Go; And We Don’t Want them To
Have you ever seen a dog with a bone? You can’t take it away from them if you want to keep all your fingers and they are extremely protective of the bone they want to eat. Mazda seems to be the same way regarding the Wankel Rotary Engine that has been used in the RX-7 and RX-8 for several years, but this engine faces a great deal of regulation restrictions among its many challenges. You might think after so many years of fighting Mazda would just give up on this engine, but we certainly don’t want them to do that at all.
2016 Land Rover Discovery Sport: The Compact Luxury SUV for You
As a world renowned company that has continuously produced vehicles that can go anywhere on or off the road to tackle some of the most challenging environments Land Rover did not ignore the fact that the compact SUV market was booming, especially on the luxury side. The Discovery Sport competes with the BMW X3, Audi Q5 and Volvo XC60, but none of them shows the off road prowess of the Discovery Sport which was built to be on the trails and in the wilderness taking on Mother Nature and showing her who’s the boss.
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