As all drivers know the cost of maintaining a car seems to be going up and up regardless of the type of car. You could have the smallest most eco-friendly car, yet the cost of maintaining it will still be ever increasing. What is most surprising is that car maintenance costs are continuing to rise even though cars are being built to need less frequent care.
Jaguar Land Rover is on a company- wide drive to increase sales. For the 2013 model year Jaguar has slashed prices, introduced a new base model V-6 engine, and added the an optional all-wheel drive system. Land Rover recently introduced the 4 cylinder front wheel drive Evoque. Next year the new Range Rover will debut. Land Rove’rs next move will likely be adding a new three-row model.
Currently only the LR4 is available with one. Three row crossovers are sales gold in the marketplace right now…
Jaguar Land Rover is on a company- wide drive to increase sales. For the 2013 model year Jaguar has slashed prices, introduced a new base model V-6 engine, and added the an optional all-wheel drive system. Land Rover recently introduced the 4 cylinder front wheel drive Evoque. Next year the new Range Rover will debut. Land Rove’rs next move will likely be adding a new three-row model.
Currently only the LR4 is available with one. Three row crossovers are sales gold in the marketplace right now…
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Word on the street is that two famous sports car British brands – Aston Martin and Lotus – could be talking about a tie-up or partnership of some sort in an effort to reduce development costs resulting in more profitability and better products.
According to Automobile Magazine, Aston and Lotus by be looking to me…
Gov. Jerry Brown requested an increase to the supply of fuel by allowing refineries to immediately transition to a blend of gasoline that is typically not sold until November.
As in-car displays house more information and controls, there is concern at how to make the screens less distracting while driving. Now a new study has found that even small changes in typeface style can help reduce the visual load of a driver by as much as 10 percent.
The study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AgeLab, the New England University Transportation Center, and Monotype Imaging Holdings (a provider of typefaces to consumer devices and applications) used eye-track…
If every state strengthened all five areas of their graduated licensing laws, more than 500 teen lives could be saved and over 9,500 collisions prevented, according to a new analysis by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
The five areas of graduated driver license (GDL) programs are permit age, practice driving hours, license age, night driving, and passenger restrictions. Some states excel in one or more areas, but no state has adopted all the best practices in each category. While IIHS…
A U.S. Government Medical Crop at the University of Mississippi Well, that settles that
Any attempt to segue into this post with a clever lead is likely to fall flat, so in the interest of skipping the cliches: a new study out of University of Colorado Denver and Montana State University shows that legalizing medical marijuana sales in various states over the past two decades has led to a nearly 10 percent drop in traffic fatalities. What the study really shows–by way of causal chain–is a five percent…
Nissan North America, Inc. has joint up with SunPower Corp. in order to educate Nissan Leaf owners on the benefits of having a SunPower residential solar power system in their home.
“Solar power is a reliable, cost-effective technology for homeowners today,” said SunPower President and CEO Tom Werner. “High efficiency SunPower systems are guaranteed to perform over the long term, maximizing the power generated and the monthly savings.”
SunPower’s systems are said to help keep charging …
At a time when the defense ministry in Italy is supposed to be reducing its budget by €2.5bn ($3.4 billion USD) over the next three years, 19 top-of-the-line Maserati Quattroporte sedans are headed into the hands of Italian officials.
Eyebrows were raised by opposition MPs that said it was it was an outrageous indulgence at a time when the defense ministry should be cutting back.
An MP from the opposition Democratic Party, Emanuele Fiano, raised the issue in parliament saying: ”At a time when…