Do you remember the first day you got your driver’s license? The excitement you felt to get on the road and drive with your friends? Did you know that a whole generation has passed and things are not the same anymore? For teens nowadays, driving causes anxieties. But why are they anxious? Let’s understand why […]
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Cars running on gasoline and electricity have made many advancements since the Early Automotive Age. With the numerous improvements in automotive technology, the electric car today will sure drive gasoline cars off the road soon! Even before the invention of Teslas, electric cars were already widespread by the 1900s. They became symbols for the affluent
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Lamborghini is internationally famous for its high-performance luxury sports car, but even with the benefits of advertising on-screen, they still refuse to use TV commercials. Now one might wonder how does their brand survives without using TV commercials. Lamborghini completely avoids TV advertising because it only reaches 1% of prospective Lamborghini buyers, which makes it
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As of 2010, Chrysler ceased the line for the PT Cruiser. These compact front-engine and front-wheel drives have been quite popular in the early 2000s. It was relatively more affordable and quite stylish. But did you know that it was classified as a truck? Chrysler specifically designed this compact vehicle to fit the criteria of
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Sean Connery, a 6’2” James Bond, did not fit in a Japanese supercar. Toyota created a different version for him for that very reason. Toyota produced only two convertible 2000 GTs. They were created specifically for the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, as Sean Connery was too tall for the original model. Toyota
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The B-52, or the Stratofortress, was designed in 1948. It is still being used today. Let’s find out more about this magnificent aircraft. If necessary, explosive cartridges can be placed into the engines of a B-52 bomber to get them up and running faster. The “cart start” cuts takeoff time from an hour to ten
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Compared to other countries, the regulation of taxis in the United Kingdom are quite complex and rigorous. Getting a license to drive one is not as easy as just completing a driver’s test. If you are planning to get a license to drive a black cab in London, you would need to invest a lot
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Fallout from Bad ’70s Idea: Auto Tires in Ocean Reef It seemed like a good idea at the time. In the early 1970s, a group of fishermen organized a campaign to dump 2 million used auto tires into the Atlantic Ocean, about a mile off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., between two living coral
This Is Why Truck Trailers Have Quilted Rear Doors: A Brief Explainer Semi trucks and their trailers are our stalwart friends on any road trip. Those who spend a lot of time driving can attest that the highway is the natural habitat of these hulking machines. But even if we see them all the time,
Why Hitchhiking Is Huge in Cuba: ‘The Transportation System Is Screwed’ The air in Havana was more liquid than gas after several days of sudden rainstorms, but the oppressive humidity didn’t seem to bother the Cubans standing at the city’s punto amarillo (yellow points), part of the socialist island nation’s countrywide hitchhiking system. A government
