American autobahn

The Closest Thing America Has to an Autobahn

What if we told you that there’s a road in America where you can satiate your need to accelerate? Would you drive all the way out to Texas to visit it? Because that’s what you’d have to do. The American autobahn Just about 15 miles outside of San Antonio, Texas, lies State Highway 130. Highway […]

Doing Your Own Car Maintenance Can Cost You

For anyone who knows what they’re doing under the hood of a car, maintenance is a real breeze. For the rest of us, it’s a mystical wardrobe of Narnia we’d rather avoid. Sure, we’ll pop the hood, check the oil, and act like we know what we’re doing, but when disaster strikes we hand the […]

Why Your Windshield Cracks When It’s Cold Out

Your windshield is a delicate combination of sand, sodium carbonate (soda ash), and calcium carbonate (limestone). It’s beautiful, but also incredibly fragile – especially in the winter. Here’s why some windshields crack during the cold weather, and how important it is to have those cracks fixed. Cold weather and glass The cold is hard on […]

handle a car fire

How to Safely Handle a Car Fire

The only place you ever want to see flames coming from your car is the tail pipe. Anywhere else is bad news. Car fires, while relatively rare, are incredibly dangerous. Between 2003 and 2007, there were an average of 287,000 car fires per year, which resulted in 480 civilian deaths, and 1,525 civilian injuries on […]

Best Taglines from Automakers

The Best Taglines from Automakers: Distilling a Brand’s Essence

A tagline is a few words that express what a brand stands for. It can be a full sentence, like Audi’s “Vorsprung durch Technik,” which translates to “Progress through Technology.” Or something less than that, like Mazda’s “Zoom-Zoom.” So far as we know, no automaker has committed to a one-word tagline because what would that […]