Nov 18
Culture Car News
Okay, this deal is actually not available to most of our readers. Still, it’s worth mentioning for the sheer jaw-dropping fun of it: The U.K.’s Daily Mail reports, “Desperate car dealers today stunned experts by launching an extraordinary credit-crunch busting deal — buy one new car and get another completely free.” Details, with translation from the British: “With car sales plummeting, dealers have been driven to offer a supermarket-style deal of two £20,000 [that's about $31,345] saloons [sedans] the price of one in a bid to shift motors [cars] from their forecourts [um....dealership lots? Okay, we're just guessing now]. “Buyers can now snap up hundreds of Dodge Avenger SXT 2.4i saloons equipped with leather seats and climate control as dealers sell them off at a loss..
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Nov 07
Culture Car News
Sing it with us now: Saaaaaved by Zeeeeeeero..
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Nov 07
Culture Car News
For many years, auto enthusiasts have been able to take their cars to race tracks for “track days” and high-performance driving schools, and rely on their ordinary car insurance to cover any accidents that occur on the track. Those days, apparently, are over.
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Sep 05
Culture Car News
Gas prices have been in a downward slide for more than 40 days, but they are expected to rise through Labor Day weekend as Tropical Storm Gustav approaches the gas-refining region of the Gulf of Mexico. Forbes reports, “Analysts say any damage to oil and gas facilities - especially along the vulnerable Gulf Coast - could send retail gas prices spiking back above $4 a gallon.” The national average price of a gallon of regular this morning hovered around $3.66, down from “the all-time high of $4.114 a gallon reached last month. But if Gustav does major damage to supplies, consumers could see that record shattered.” Tim Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service tells Forbes, “If we have a Katrina-type event, you’re talking about gas prices going up another 30 percent.”
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Sep 05
Culture Car News
We’ve found a hidden bright side to high gas prices — a record low in traffic deaths.
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Sep 05
Culture Car News
Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, knows a thing or two about predicting the future of the automotive industry. They invested in hybrid technology at a time when gas cost just over $1 a gallon and America’s Big Three were focused only on high-profit SUVS. The Japanese automaker was prepared with a fleet of attractive and functional small cars when gas hit $4, and has weathered a difficult 2008 far better than most of its competition. So how is Toyota preparing for the future?.
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Sep 05
Culture Car News
What with the economy in the doldrums and gas prices near record highs, most of us can’t afford to spend much on our next car. The poor sap who bought the first Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport at auction earlier this week, for instance, could afford to drop only $3.19 million on his ride.
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Sep 05
Culture Car News
Celebrities make a hobby of flaunting the newest, flashiest and most disgustingly expensive supercars. Outside of car magazines, names like Maybach, Bentley and Lamborghini are seldom heard — unless they’re in a sentence with the words "Paris" and "Hilton." But that doesn’t mean you can’t own one of your favorite celeb’s rides. Check out our list of cars priced from $17-50K and driven by what are undoubtedly some of the more down-to-earth superstars..
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Sep 05
Culture Car News
Bruce Wayne has apparently fallen on hard times. He’s selling the Batmobile on eBay..
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