2017 Charger’s Safety Tech Shocks Industry Remember when you saw your first real American muscle car? It was awe inspiring, wasn’t it. Most of us, whether we admit it or not, have secretly yearned to be behind the wheel of our own muscle car, especially when that car is the Dodge Charger. The Charger originally […]
Muscle Cars + New Tech = Great Fun Why buy a boring car when you can get a muscle car. And not just any muscle but the muscle car: the 2017 Dodge Challenger. Sure, you could get a car that saves fuel on long trips or one that is built to go off road to […]
How The Off-Road Jeep TransformedEarly 70’s Jeep CJ-5 or CJ-6If you are one of Jeep or off-road fans that strongly believe your Jeep must be a manual, and nothing else, well then the early 70’s CJ models were a dream come true to you. They were the last model from Jeep that held strong and […]
Cities with the Worst Traffic Jams Despite advances in public transportation and ride sharing, expansion of bicycle lanes, and additional pedestrian programs, you can still spend an awful lot of time stuck in traffic jams. And, as Century 3 Kia of West Mifflin, a local Kia dealer in West Mifflin, PA, humorously relates “This is […]
Sports Car Sales Decline As soon as there were horseless carriages being built, there were people racing them. This is likely because it was the best thrill ride around. After all, before the advent of the 1900s, the fastest a human move was some 30-40 MPH on a train- not quite daredevil -level stuff. After […]
What’s More Important: Torque or Horsepower? Most performance car enthusiasts are horsepower-centric. In other words, the specification that they focus on is always the amount of horsepower produced by the engine and not much else. After all, more horsepower is better right? “There ain’t no replacement for displacement” is their battle cry. Well, as the […]
Old Car Technologies That Should Be Resurrected If there ever is an object that is in a state of continuous evolution, it’s the automobile. Car manufacturers are constantly changing the technology in their cars to make them perform better, cheaper or just to change things for the next model year (think paint colors). The driving […]
4 Automotive Fantasy Technologies That Are Almost Here Back in the golden days of the 1960s when Hanna and Barbera cartoons were the rage, we were constantly treated to whimsical visions of what transportation in the future would be like. Whether it was just regular cars, aircraft or George Jetson’s spaceship, the future seemed awfully […]
Dealing with Range Anxiety New technologies can affect the way we live, so much so that they can change how we do things and what we obsess about. With the advent of Electric Cars (EVs), for example, we have a new anxiety to deal with. It’s called “Range Anxiety.” Range anxiety is a tongue-in-cheek affair […]
We live in a nation of rules, laws and regulations. What a lot of people don’t realize, however, is how many we actually live under; the answer is a lot. That’s not a bad thing, though. Most of these laws and regulations have been put in place to make America a safer place to live […]