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Smart EV’s Big New Battery Leaves No Room For Passenger

What a difference a big battery can make.  Smart’s Fortwo EV85, which the company hopes to begin selling in January — fires off Tesla-like acceleration numbers while also setting records for distance traveled on a single charge.  The… Read More

Noise Complaints Prompt Feds to Drop Daylight Running Horn Proposal

The use of vehicle daylight running lights (DRLs) has resulted in a significantly reduced number of traffic accidents, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Because DRLs were so effective, NHTSA began a study to determine… Read More

Caught on Camera! 2019 Prius PIPU Pickup!

You really don’t need a Powerstroke-equipped Super Duty to run down to Whole Foods or Amazon Whole Foods–or whatever it’s now called–to pick up a packet of St. John’s Wort seeds and a bottle of hummingbird nectar. For… Read More

Chevrolet Vows to Stop Making Angry-Looking Cars

Saying there’s already enough unhappiness and conflict in the world, General Motors Vice-President of Design August Dimp today announced the automaker will no longer produce “angry-looking cars.”   To illustrate the future design change, Dimp displayed a photograph… Read More

Toyota Selling Millions of Gallons of Beige Paint As Design Heads In a New “Edgier” Direction

Need some beige paint? A lot of it? Toyota has nearly a million gallons of the stuff it would like to sell you.   It’s all because of the automaker’s newfound emphasis on style, beginning with the redesigned… Read More

If Mini’s Continue to Get Larger….

Ferrari Unveils Slower, Cheaper “Sortafast” Model

Ferrari today announced it will build a less-expensive stablemate to its stunning and blindingly-fast 812 Superfast coupe.  The Sortafast is the result of CEO Sergio Marchionne’s plan to increase Ferrari sales by introducing an entry level model. While… Read More

NASA Spacecraft Finally Supasses Mileage of Local Man’s Old Toyota Pickup

It took NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft nearly ten years of flying through the emptiness of space to accomplish it, but the piano-sized probe (believe me, we tried to come up with another term) finally surpassed the distance record… Read More

How to Avoid Salespeople While Having Your Car Serviced at the Dealership

It only takes 15 minutes for a dealership “technician” to change your vehicle’s oil.  But then it takes another hour to perform the complimentary multi-point inspection, during which approximately 471 problems will be discovered. So, during those 75… Read More