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...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) -- Takata Corp. President Shigehisa Takada made a public apology for the eight deaths and hundreds of injuries related to the company’s airbags dating back more than a decade.Takada, 49, bowed and apologized at a press briefing in Tokyo after the company’s annual shareholders meeting today. He said the safety components supplier is considering ways to help victims, including by setting up a fund to compensate them.“I apologize for not having been able to communicate directly earlier, and also apologize for people who died or were injured,” Takada said....
All the companies selling something, try to get our attention, using various advertising means. They are successful more or less and get us wanting to buy their products. But these companies took it at a whole new level of creativity, using billboards and pure brilliance to get a perfect combination. Lets check them out!Here's the cool Mustang series of billboards promoting the speed of their cars. Remember the famous billboard battle between BMW and Audi?The battle began in Santa Monica, California after BMW used ches...
Hot rods are typically old, classic American cars with large engines modified in various ways to achieve higher performance. The vast majority of the cars being run were four-cylinder Ford Model Ts or their successor, the four-cylinder Model A as these models were cheap, plentiful, lightweight, and easy to work on. Nobody knows for sure the origin of the term "hot rod", but there is a theory that it was originated by the fact that burning out the connecting rod bearings was a very common failure mode for souped up vehicles, and "hot rod" could refer to t...
Mercedes-Benz just unveiled its vision of the future of the automobile at Consumer Electronics Show 2015 – it's a self-driving car that looks just fantastic and drives even better. The F 015 Luxury in Motion research vehicle is “an illustration of how the car will grow beyond a means of transport and into a private retreat bringing comfort and luxury to a new level.” Mercedes envisions cars of the future not just as means of transportation from point A to point B, but as “private retreats,” or lounges of sorts. The F 015 concept lets passenger...
Remember the times when the only way to travel the unfamiliar road was to consult the awkward paper maps or desperately try to pry out the necessary direction out of fellow drivers or gas station attendants? A good thing GPS navigators were invented, right? They seem to know every road and direction and lead you any distance to the point of your destination! But do they indeed?Let's check out a compilation of fascinating GPS fails! Here we go: Hands-free driving & GPSRobert Jones from Doncaster, UK can tell you about the advantages of hands-free driving like no one else. He seems ...
