Filed under: Truck , Etc. , Government/Legal , Videos , Work , Ford Man pays nearly $200,000 to park truck in his own drive – click above to watch the video Beware of the home owner’s association. Considered this country’s most basic, ruthless unit of government, HOAs are typically organized and manned by retirees with little better to do than tell you what to do with your property – something A.J. Vizzi recently learned the hard way. When Vizzi purchased his home in Odessa, Florida, he was told he would be allowed to park his Ford F-350 Super Duty in his home’s driveway , even though the neighborhood’s rules forbade keeping vehicles anywhere other than the garage. The truck didn’t fit in the home’s garage. The local HOA soon changed its…

The Obama administration went here before, when it tried to quantify how much worse things would have been without its stimulus bill. And considering the task force has enjoyed access to GM and Chrysler’s business plans, it’s surprising that this graph (from the Auto Task Force’s just-released Bailout “report” [PDF]) is based on notoriously iffy

Green Car Advisor: GM Says Chevy Volt Will Require Premium Gas General Motors told Green Car Advisor this morning that the 1.4-liter gasoline engine aboard the Chevy Volt extended-range plug-in hybrid will require premium gas, which currently costs consumers 10 percent more than regular. Edmunds CarPool: Test Car Notes — 2011 Kia Sportage Associate Editor Mark Takahashi recently returned from a Kia Sportage event in San Francisco. He was allowed to drive one of the vehicles back to Los Angeles so we would have the opportunity to run it through our usual battery of tests. In the 300-plus miles on Highway 101

Posted on 07.29.2010 18:00 by Bryan Usrey Filed under: Nissan | industry news | Accessories | Cars | Car News Nissan has gone a bit health conscious. The Japanese automaker has revealed its all-new “Health & Well-Being” concept that will attempt to create a more healthy and comfortable environment for drivers and passengers. The car has three features that will make those goals achievable. They are a comfortable captain’s seat, an advanced climate control system, and a …

The Porsche Panamera caused quite an uproar when the German auto manufacturer first unveiled it a few years ago. A four door Porsche? Madness! Worse than a Porsche SUV! Still, after the car was a hit with many reviewers, and pitchfork-armed Porsche mobs settled done and enjoyed the car for what it is; an overpriced, fast, four-door sedan. Now word has come down that Porsche is planning to make the Panamera into a hybrid. Grab your pitchforks! (more…)

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin – More than 80 years after first transporting passengers in its uniquely designed seaplanes, the Dornier name is back and redefining the flying boat marketplace. Dornier Seaplanes is here at Airventure with its new airplane, the all composite Seastar CD2. Priced at $6 million, the Seastar CD2 isn’t aimed at the casual pilot looking for an amphibious airplane (if that’s you, check back tomorrow for an update on the Icon A5). Instead Dornier Seaplanes customers range from island nations that will use the airplane as a search and rescue aircraft, to airlines that operate in places where the airport is still a sandy beach or dock. The …

The Subaru Rally Team is back with three new cars based on the revised 2011 Impreza WRX STI . The cars have been prepared by Vermont SportsCar and will compete in X Games 16 rally events in Los Angeles this weekend. The transformation begins with a 2011 WRX STI just like the ones you can buy in your local Subaru dealership; SRT chose to stick with the five-door hatch rather than using the newly resurrected sedan model. The gap between…

Ford 3.8L Engines For Sale If your Ford product is equipped with the 3.8L (232cid) V6 engine, you’ll probably satisfied with the engine, it’s very dependable and fuel efficient. It performs it’s intended purposed perfectly. There are three main variations of 3.8L V6 engines that were used in Ford, Lincoln and Mercury’s. The first type used a carburetor since the engine was made in the 1982-83 model years, before fuel injection was introduced…

The 2011 BMW 5 Series has received the top rating of “Good” from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety ( IIHS ), along with an IIHS 2010 Top Safety Pick label.

Filed under: Motorsports , Sedan , Performance , Europe , Videos , Porsche , Racing N.Technology Porsche Panamera touring car – Click above to watch video after the jump We’re guessing that Porsche had to do some head scratching when it came to figuring out which motorsports arena would best suit its big Panamera . After all, the company prides itself on forging its wares in the fire of competition. Heck, it even managed to find a suitable arena for the high-riding Cayenne in the Trans-Siberia Rally. Fortunately, …

I’m still shaking when I think back to my first ride in the passenger seat of a brandnew Phaeton. It was piloted by a known reckless high executive of Volkswagen. Near Hannover, we barreled down the Autobahn, with the speedo indicating something above 250 km/h. I didn’t dare to inspect it closer, because I was

Racing improves the breed, they say, and the guys at Brammo are taking that to heart with the Empulse RR, a one-off racer built with an eye toward developing the company’s next electric street bike. The RR was designed strictly for competing in the budding electric motorcycle racing scene, so you’ll never see it on the street. But the Ashland, Oregon company is far too small to spend time developing anything it can’t make money on. So just as last season’s Enertia TTR race bike influenced the new Empulse street bike , the Empulse RR is a blueprint for future …

Posted on 07.29.2010 10:00 by Kirby Filed under: | UK | Supercars / Exotic cars | street racing | video | Pagani Zonda | Bugatti Veyron | special editions | Cars | Car News When talking about supercars, there aren’t a lot in this world that can come close to matching the prestige of a Pagani Zonda or a Bugatti Veyron . And if you …

OICA, the venerable “Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles,” better known as the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, finally got around to finishing their 2009 World Ranking of Manufacturers by motor vehicle production. This list has very little surprises for the TTAC B&B who pinned our World’s Top Ten Automakers 2009 to the wall. Yet,

Filed under: Motorsports , Etc. , Government/Legal , Safety , Australia Albert Einstein has commonly been quoted as saying that stupidity (or insanity, depending on your source) is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Which begs the question, with over 100 years of traffic enforcement behind us, why are we still relying on the same methods of catch and punish to modify driver behavior? If it hasn’t worked over the last century, chances are it won’t work over the next. But Australian V8 Supercar champ Jamie Whincup has come up with a zany idea that just might cut down on his country’s driving death toll – education. In a move likely to draw some knee-jerk guffaws, …