Almost since the creation of affordable automobiles for the general public, cars have been immortalized in art. Sometimes the art is the design itself – blueprints, models, and even specifically chosen lines, curves, and proportion. Other times the art has been in the form of hand-painted advertising posters, often created by well-known artists, in much [...]
Many American states, primarily amongst them Texas and Florida, have advanced the cultivation of and fostered defensive driving courses.
Those states have given businesses incentives to build these tuition-based education facilities by offering what amounts to moving violation credits. In many areas, this means you may have that speeding ticket cancelled in exchange for attending traffic [...]
For many of us, the Toyota Corolla was our first introduction to Japanese automobiles. Often, they were the first new cars we could afford, back in the days before Kia and Hyundai on the market. Most of us grew beyond our Corollas, but that doesn’t keep us from remembering them fondly. Then there are the [...]
While most of us are lucky enough never to experience the agony of buying a car that turns out to be a lemon, for those of us who are caught in such a situation, it’s important to know where you can find both information and advocacy when the dealer drops the ball. That’s why TexasLemon.com [...]
On the surface, the concept of CarType seems a little strange. This is, after all, a site devoted to car-related typography – the fonts, whirls, and logos that instantly bring into mind iconic cars, and the companies that make them.
Look beyond the surface, however, and what you find is a website that not only [...]
I just returned from a week in San Francisco (and let me just say that Mark Twain was right about the summer weather there), where I kept seeing these cute, tiny yellow cars populated by one or two helmeted tourists, and sharing audio GPS with passers by. I was curious, of course, so I [...]
Tesla Motors, is all over the news this week, with three different announcements of new developments, all released yesterday.
First, they’ve introduced the new Model S, a fully electric five-passenger sedan that will be able to go about 225 miles between charges, and comes with a pricetag of about $60,000. If that seems a lot, consider [...]
TheSuperCars.org uses the tagline “Smart, Sweet, and Fast” to describe the cars they honor on their website, but those words are applicable to the site itself as well.
Smart: The website puts you behind the wheel, as it were, from the first click, with feature articles right there on the front page, highlighted by pictures of [...]
While some of us are watching for production models of the plug-in versions of the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape, and others are following the news of Subaru’s recently announced EV offering, the R1e, many people still see electric and solar-electric cars as something limited to the garages of hobbyists and backyard tinkers, rather than [...]
There are many car clubs that are inspired by love of a single make or model of automobile, or a specific era in automotive history. Then there are the exceptional car clubs like The WPC Club, Inc., which was inspired by the life and work of Walter P. Chrysler, the last independent auto manufacturer to [...]