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2015 Kia Sportage: Familiar Name and Great Looks

23Mar

By Nathan EhingerNo Comments

Brands, Kia, News

2015 Kia Sportage: Familiar Name and Great Looks

Kia has spent considerable time and effort designing and redesigning the Sportage which has grown over several years from a basic 4x4 that seemed to just be testing the waters into a market leader. As a powerful compact crossover, the Sportage has become one of the most popular and affordable options for any owner to choose from and know they have purchased an SUV that is worth much more than the price tag suggests. As one of the few SUVs that take the sport part seriously, the Sportage is full of performance and power to please any crowd. (more…)

2015 Volkswagen Beetle: An Icon Modernized

20Mar

By Manny BatemanNo Comments

Brands, News, Volkswagen

2015 Volkswagen Beetle: An Icon Modernized

The Beetle has been around for decades, although it spent a number of years on the shelf as a car that no longer gained the same interest as a new vehicle after its first time round many years ago. Those old Beetles ran on very little mechanics and offered a huge amount of fuel efficiency with very few actual features to enjoy. Still, the thought of owning a Beetle, especially one that was a convertible made many buyers flock to pick them up when they were new and then once again as the original owners sold them when their families were growing. Many Beetles of old are still prowling the streets and make fantastic cars for a fun project as they don’t require a lot of work to have them running and allowing owners to have a great time cruising around in them. (more…)

14Mar

By Nathan EhingerNo Comments

Brands, Ford, News

A GT with a Six: Not Enough? Let’s See.

For 2017 Ford is showing its continued love for the turbo engines, calling the latest one to be created for the GT an EcoBeast. Without a doubt that is precisely what we will see in the GT when the 2017 model year comes around and there should be little to no complaints about this amazing engine be shoved into this fast and ultra-speed designed car . Adding a six-cylinder to a car that’s only mission in life is to go fast can’t be powerful enough, can it? (more…)

Performance. Sedan. The 2015 Porsche Panamera.

6Mar

By Nathan EhingerNo Comments

Brands, News, Porsche

Performance. Sedan. The 2015 Porsche Panamera.

When it was first introduced the Panamera received a lot of skeptic and many who saw it couldn’t believe Porsche would go the way of the sedan. For many the thought was this would signal the end of the days of Porsche’s dominance in the world of high performance sports cars, but they were wrong. The look of the Panamera is enough to get anyone’s heart beating faster and the amount of power under the hood makes this outstanding four-door sedan zip down the road faster than many sports cars. It seems Porsche simply so no reason why all its cars had to be two-seaters and now allow more passengers to experience the awesome ride and performance of this amazing sports sedan. (more…)

2Mar

By Rocco PennNo Comments

Brands, McLaren, News

Don’t Miss the 2015 McLaren 650S

Not because you aren’t paying attention, but you might just miss the McLaren 650S as it screams past on the road. Of course if it’s doing that on a highway chances are you will absolutely notice the blue lights following along. The 650S is a car the is made to combine the track features of the P1 with the comfort and drivability of the 12C. This car blends these two nicely without giving anything up as it shows off with massive power and huge performance on any road it chooses to ride on. To showcase this blending, the 650S ranks as one of the world’s best-handling exotic cars, not an easy feat but one that McLaren was working toward with this amazing super car. (more…)

Something New to Look Forward to from BMW

26Feb

By Nathan EhingerNo Comments

BMW, Brands, News

Something New to Look Forward to from BMW

BMW has introduced us to the i-Series of vehicle in the past couple year giving us cars that are built to be electric-hybrid vehicles that destroy the old ideal that a hybrid vehicle could not be a high performance machine. Of course Porsche already did this with the 918 Spyder, but at nearly $1M for the Porsche and only one version to select, BMW chose to create a lineup of these types of cars by giving us the i-3 and i-8 to whet our whistles and begin the imagination moving regarding what these cars can actually become. (more…)

Does Learning to Drive a Stick Shift Make for Better Drivers?

22Feb

By Carl DurrekNo Comments

News

Does Learning to Drive a Stick Shift Make for Better Drivers?

In this world filled with technology and advanced instantaneous gratification we see people almost daily trying to perform the task of driving without the first thought of what they are actually doing. Instead of paying attention to the road or the rules of the road, they are busy on their cell phones (hopefully not texting, but you know some of them are), eating, drinking, looking for stations on the radio or just about anything but actually being in tune with the task at hand. This may be why we have so many governmental regulations regarding the types of cars that can be bought, driven and sold here, to protect us from ourselves, but the reality is we simply need to be better drivers. (more…)

For the Subaru BRZ and Scion FR-S, Tim Allen Needs to be Called

17Feb

By Manny BatemanNo Comments

Subaru

For the Subaru BRZ and Scion FR-S, Tim Allen Needs to be Called

Possibly that is a stretch in the title to say we must call on Tim Allen even though anyone familiar with his brand of comedy and his television show would know he has always advocated for more power. To Tim it never mattered where that power came from as long as you could put more of it in whatever you were working on. The Subaru BRZ and is cousin the Scion FR-S are certainly cars that offer the need for more power. These two are amazing performance inspired vehicles which offer great handling and control in order to experience exceptional capability. With the thought of more power for this already awesome pair of cars, we can continue to complain and whine until Subaru wakes up and puts a strong V8 inside with a better exhaust and shaves off some weight from the car, or we can do ...

13Feb

By Nathan EhingerNo Comments

News

Best Car Features For 2015

Car technology has come a long way from your grandmother’s sedan. Heated seats, rear-view cameras, and so many other helpful features have been added to cars over the years to make your drive not only convenient, but comfortable as well. So which features are the most useful or luxurious car options for 2015? There are quite a few, it turns out. Although different manufacturer’s call them different things, they really all boil down to be the same features. Let’s start with the seats. Although heated leather seats have been around for a while and are a great comfort feature, leather can be a little warm in the summer. Enter the “air conditioned” seats. This feature allows you to cool down your seat and keeps your legs from sweating in your shorts during those 90 degree summer days. A...

6Feb

By Manny BatemanNo Comments

Brands, Dodge, News

Viper is going from Concept to Creation

Viper fans everywhere can rejoice as Dodge announced recently their plans to take the Viper ACR concept car to production for the 2016 model year. This is the natural progression for the car as the current version has been setting track records all over the world and it’s time for the next step to be taken by Dodge with the Viper. With this approval and plan to enter the 2016 model year with the ACR model, Dodge faces some scrutiny regarding the time and the sales of the current version of the Viper. This scrutiny is a result of the sluggish sales the current Viper has experienced, bringing to mind the question of why would a new Viper be up for the production line with the current version performing, from a sales point of view, so poorly. The answer is Dodge plans to use the new AC...