So which came first, the chicken or the egg?
The the answer to this question is more of a refection of your own personal beliefs, than a hard and fast fact.
In
other words if you happen to be a fan of chickens you'll probably tend
to root for the chicken, but if you love eggs, the answer is obvious.
Recently U.S. News and World Report ranked the worst cars for your money.
In
the story they highlighted five cars based on, "data from the U.S. News
car rankings, which are based on the collective opinion of the
automotive press. This tells us how "good" or "bad" a car is within its
class, according to a large number of critics. We then weigh the
rankings against how much value the car packs in compared to others
within its class."
The six cars they selected as being the worst cars for your money are:
The February automobile sales numbers are horrendous.
General Motors sales were down just over 51 percent.
Ford sales sank by just over 46 percent, and Chrysler sales tanked by almost 42 percent.
But the biggest sales decline by far was Hummer, which saw a massive 67 percent drop in sales followed by Saab which had sales drop 61.2 percent.
Fortune Magazine has once again come up with a list of its World's Most Admired companies and this year Toyota gets the bronze podium position on the list right behind Apple and Berkshire Hathaway.
Two other automotive companies made the top 50 of the World's Most Admired companies.
Bessey, Boomzilla, and Love Machine! Really?
Those are some of the top pet names that British drivers gave their cars in a recently survey by HPI Limited.
When you read the press release (below) you can't help but wonder if our British cousins have been hitting the milk and tea just a little too much.
Kurt Neutgens is hoping to sell you an electric Mustang for just over
$75,000. A few years ago he quit his mechanical engineering job at the
Ford Motor Company and founded Plug-In Motors.
Working
out of his garage on a shoestring budget, like the very first
automotive pioneers, it did not take him very long to take a stock
Mustang, pull the engine out, add 2450 batteries, and add an electric
engine to convert the car to run of volts instead of gallons.
Image
driving down your neighborhood street, and all of a sudden the car just
ahead of you brakes hard because a dog ran onto the street.
You are of course fiddling with your garage door opener so before you
can even react your car puts on the brakes and stops you just in time
to avoid the collision.
Does this sound like a safety feature you would want on your next car?
Volvo is hoping so, and that's why the manufacturer was in town
recently unveiling the new XC60 which comes standard with what Volvo is
calling the "City Safety" feature.
Potential buyers had the
chance to try out the feature by driving the car into a barrier, or at
least trying to drive the car into a barrier.
The new City Safety on the XC60 puts on the brakes automatically below 19 mph when it senses an obstacle in the road.
"I call it the wow factor," said Alfred Holzapfel, Volvo's regional market manager, when describing the new XC60.
Do you want the good news or the bad news first?
Let's start with the good news?
In
Colorado the Chrysler Sebring may be the most exclusive car you'll ever
own. In fact, during the one week I drove the car I saw exactly one
other Sebring (more about this later).
I felt like I was behind the wheel of Bugatti Veyron
as I glanced over the distinctive furrowed hood of the Sebring at all
of the masses in their oh-so-common Audi(s), Subaru(s) and Prius(s) or
is it Pre(i)?
