News - Car Reporters

30Nov

By Emma SchmidtNo Comments

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Do You Know how to Load a Trailer?

When you have a vehicle that can haul a trailer you’ve given yourself a fantastic advantage on the road or trails over other vehicles that don’t have the ability to pull a trailer behind them. This means you can help move your friend’s stuff with just your truck, bring home a load of materials for the weekend project or take extra gear that you need with you when camping to the campsite. This also gives you the ability to pull a trailer with a boat on it or a couple jet skis, but those items aren’t the subject of this article so we’ll leave them out of the conversation. (more…)

Forget the Fact the Gas Prices are Down; Plug-Ins are Up

29Nov

By Nathan EhingerNo Comments

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Forget the Fact the Gas Prices are Down; Plug-Ins are Up

Over the past few years the price of gas at the pump has dramatically decreased to make it more affordable than a decade ago to drive your vehicle on the road. This has raised at least one question and that is whether or not the market for EV models and hybrids would continue to be strong. With a wide variety of these vehicles on the road and the fact that you can now enjoy ranges that are better than ever the EV market is actually experiencing strong numbers over the past several months. (more…)

28Nov

By Rocco PennNo Comments

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The One Factor that Matters

Like it or not, the one single factor that matters the most for your driving, no matter where you’re doing your driving, is your tires. The tires are what touches the road and makes contact which means you need to have the right tires for the job. This is why there are so many different tires that you can have on your vehicle to give you the right traction and capabilities wherever you need it to be. It important you make sure the tires you have are made to give you the performance you want, especially if you choose to head onto terrain that requires it. (more…)

22Nov

By Emma SchmidtNo Comments

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Can You Get Work Done in a PHEV?

There haven’t been any successful pickup trucks that have been made has plug-in hybrid electric models on the road yet, but one may be on its way very soon. While this pickup won’t come from your typical truck manufacturer, a new one is creating a truck that you will consider to be a great truck that can get the job done that you need. This new truck will be one that you can easily admire and will come to you at a fairly reasonable price when you want to have a truck that is perfect for business needs. (more…)

Faraday Future Has Tesla in its Cross Hairs

21Nov

By Carl DurrekNo Comments

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Faraday Future Has Tesla in its Cross Hairs

There’s no doubting the fact that Faraday Future is looking to be a leader in the EV market and this is before they even put one vehicle on the road. The only vehicle we’ve seen all of from this company so far is the FFZERO1 which is a concept supercar that could be a track ready sports car that will ride fast and offer a long range. While this supercar is certainly admirable a car that can actually challenge Tesla is what Faraday Future has in store for us now. The latest car that will be offered from this EV automaker is one that will resemble the Tesla Model X. (more…)

Racing for the Attention of Today’s Generation

14Nov

By Nathan EhingerNo Comments

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Racing for the Attention of Today’s Generation

There’s no doubt that attention spans have waned with the immediacy of the generation we have in our youth of today. Many want their information right now and can process it much faster and in larger quantities than was the case with older generations. In an era where everything we do is shared right now and you have to know what your friends are doing all the time, sports that we watch need to follow a similar format, or at least give us that same sense of urgency so that we can feel like the action is always immediate. (more…)

9Nov

By Rocco PennNo Comments

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How Good a Driver Do You Have to Be?

Driving isn’t something we should take lightly, it’s a privilege and a rite of passage for most of us that represents freedom, growing up and marks one of the first events in our lives that makes us feel as if we are becoming adults. Learning how to drive properly and using the skills necessary to make adjustments on the road to stay in the lane is part of the finer points of driving skill that we learn during this time, but some drivers have more skill than others. (more…)

3Nov

By Manny BatemanNo Comments

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The Hobby that Brings Back a Childhood

For many of us the joy of going to the store might have meant you got to pick out a toy to take home if you were well-behaved during the trip. You tried your best to act the way you knew would please your parents and at the end of the shopping a stop in the Hot Wheels aisle was a must. Hot Wheels cars were the perfect toy to reward you as a child and have always been priced right to make it easy for your parents to add an item to the total that was only a minor amount and certainly worth the cost to have you act right in the store. (more…)

3Nov

By Rocco PennNo Comments

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Dream Ride with a GoPro

The GoPro camera has become one of the most popular items that can be purchased to document the action right in front of you. This Point of View (POV) look at the experience someone has given you an idea of what they see and how they see it. The beauty of these items is you can document all sorts of action during the day or event including sporting events and the action from the field or the excitement of a drop from a plane to the ground while skydiving where you get to see how small things look at first. (more…)

Drowsiness is a Problem for Many Drivers

1Nov

By Carl DurrekNo Comments

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Drowsiness is a Problem for Many Drivers

Unfortunately many of us fill our days so full of activities and scheduled events that we have a hard time sleeping well at night and leave ourselves little time to get ready for the day in the morning. Distractions from behind the wheel can include text messages, talking on cell phones, eating, drinking or other people in the car, but most of us don’t think of drowsiness as a distraction. The reality is if we drive drowsy there’s a much greater likelihood of ending up in an accident than if we drive fully alert and ready for the day. (more…)