Cars

VIDEO: Chevy Impala oil change ends in the engine exploding

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I don’t know enough about cars to say why this Chevy Impala’s engine blew up during an oil change. But I know enough about people hilariously jumping away from explosions while eating snack foods to know that it’s entertaining to watch. Read more

EcoSpeed: Save gas with clever driving

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Not everybody can afford a new, gas sipping vehicle. A lot of us are still stuck with a dinosaur from ten years ago: in fact, the average age of the American car has been creeping upwards since the ’60s and just hit a new high of 10.8 this year. Read more

7 things to hope men have in the future

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The future has been viewed as utopian societies where everyone gets along but has zero personality, mysterious metropolitan areas with mindless drones in silver jumpsuits and Armageddon-ridden warzones with only the nuclear sunset to disturb its gritty color palette. But what about just a vision of a future where men have awesome toys? Read more

Government feuds over whether you can use a hands-free phone while driving

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It’s not an exaggeration to say that distracted driving kills. There’s plenty of stats to back that up. Nobody’s arguing that somebody texting while driving is an idiot and a menace (and it doesn’t matter if it was your girlfriend). But is your hands-free set a potential killer? Read more

The Anti-Theft Car Seat uses your butt as a password

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Car theft is…well, actually, it’s not really that much of a problem lately. Car theft has hit its lowest level in forty years. But that doesn’t mean we can’t drive it even lower, which is why we have new anti-theft methods being pioneered every day. Read more

Nissan wants to sell you a self-parking dorkmobile

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The Nissan Pivo essentially exists for the car maker to try out different, really bizarre technologies. The first one, from 2005, basically a car body that can rotate 360 degrees on a pivot, which means you never have to go in reverse or back into a parking space again. Read more

Bentley brings new meaning to “pimpmobile” with the Executive Interior Concept

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So, you might be thinking about buying a Bentley. OK, probably not, but you’d like to. Here’s an incentive, for any readers who may be on the fence: the Executive Interior Concept, a setup for the back seat that has more gadgets than your typical Bond movie. Read more

MyFord Touch is the closest you’ll get to driving KITT

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MyFord Touch sounds like it should be creepy, but it’s really just a method designed by Ford and Microsoft to sync up your cellphone and MP3 player to the car, as well as offering you directions, scanning your car for problems, and offering up your car as a WiFi hotspot so the people you’re lugging ... Read more

GM’s new crash avoidance system talks to other cars

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Let’s face it, as a country, we drive like a bunch of idiots. We eat, we yak on the phone, we get wasted and decide to go drag-racing, we steer with our knees to fiddle with our iPods…we’re a menace. But, since we’ve already paved all these highways, we should use them. But how to ... Read more

VIDEO: Watch a 16-year-old girl getting the car she was born in on her birthday

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A girl’s 16th birthday is an important time in her life for reasons I don’t understand no matter how many episodes of My Super Sweet 16 I’ve watched. In this clip, teen Joanna Kearns is given a 1989 Toyota Corolla from her mom, Joanna, as a birthday gift. And it happens to be the car ... Read more

VIDEO: The Jeremy Clarkson narrated ‘Forza 4′ trailer might be one of the finest of its kind

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At the risk of sounding totally weird or something, I am willing to admit that the following clip actually gave me goosebumps. Read more