Spring is here, and it's the perfect time to discover fresh feelings of adventure.If you are willing to explore your need for speed, then RepoKar is the right place for you! RepoKar is a fun, high-octane online Public Auto Auction where you'r...
April 1st is one of the most amazing days of the whole year. It is always celebrated with much excitement. To celebrate this day, we play entertaining pranks on our loved ones, friends and colleagues.Car enthusiasts love very much their cars and that's why we thought about how to joke on their feelings doing it harmless. Here are the some fun and harmless pranks which will make your friends and family go haywire:Invisible driver prank "For sale" sign on the windowThis can be stuck to the windows or the rear windscreen of the car. To add to the merriment, make the expect...
Rumors of a dealer class action against Volkswagen have swirled for months, and we have already mentioned about this in one of our previous blogs. But now, a prominent dealer attorney, Leonard Bellavia of Mineola, N.Y., declared he is prepared to file a lawsuit against Volkswagen on behalf of U.S. dealers who supported financial damage after VW’s emissions scandal.The attorney declined to identify his clients, but he mentioned that whether the lawsuit is filed depends on whether the company can reach a settlement with dealers that compensates them fairly for the finan...
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety lead a study of the U.S. cars headlights to check their conformity to the official standards. According to the results of this study headlights on a third of U.S. midsize car models do a poor job, and only one, the Toyota Prius V, performed well enough with an optional upgrade to earn a good rating from the IIHS.Better headlights could reduce U.S. accident deaths and improve safety. Within the ratings of vehicle headlights, the insurance group tested midsize cars to see how well they illuminate the road and whether they create excessive glare for...
The advent of Uber and Lyft marked a shift towards on-demand and shared mobility, and promises to require changes of the game for commuters and carmakers. More and more people realize that vehicles have high up-front costs to own and depreciate swiftly, but they aren't necessarily heavily utilized.The possible on-demand revolution will for sure affect automakers. The analysts acknowledge that the proliferation of on-demand vehicles could ultimately reduce the number of cars on the road in the U.S. by more than 25 million, with population density serving as a key determinant ...
Many of the autonomous driving enthusiasts are racing to bring self-driving cars to market. However there are no less engineering scientists who speak about the risks and the immaturity of the self-driving technologies at the moment. This is Missy Cummings' opinion, an engineering professor and human-factors expert at Duke University who argued self-driving cars are "absolutely not ready for widespread deployment." As a professor, Cummings is leading a National Science Foundation-funded study of how pedestrians interact with self-driving cars. As on...
