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 […]

Electric Vehicles That Didn’t Make It You know what they say about pioneers? “You can always recognize one because of all the arrows in their back.” Yes, it’s exciting to be a pioneer but that’s the stage in a product’s development when a lot of the errors and mistakes occur. Business experts will tell you […]

About Cylinder Deactivation “Cylinder Deactivation” has been around for many years.  It’s a pretty simple way to make an engine conserve fuel. Here’s how it works:  With typical light load driving with large engines, only about 30% of an engine’s potential power is required. This is because under these circumstances, the throttle valve is only slightly open and the engine needs to work hard to pull air by it. The […]