Cars Blog January Archive

UpYourRide.com Interview

By Interviewer at 01/29/09 10:04

Name of your website?

UpYourRide.com

Your name?

Joshua & Melanie Jamerson

Your Location (city, etc)

Spokane Valley

Please give us a short summary of your website?

We sell nothing but quality auto accessories, its called auto restyling. Thats all we do, help people with outstanding customer service and follow through.

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Obama supports more fuel-efficient cars

It may be bitter, but it will certainly contribute to the healing of the American automobile industry.

This is what can be said about Obama's orders towards putting up stricter emission on requirements on manufactured cars. US automakers have long resisted emission requirements by individual states, backed up by pressure coming from the Bush administration. Now, the states seem to have the upper hand now that President Obama himself instructed institutions concerned to enfore stricter rules.

Link: Obama Issues Orders Toward More Fuel-Efficient Cars - washingtonpost.com

Detailed My Car Just To Get It Dirty Again

The other day I had some free time so I decided to detail my car. I used to work at a car dealership so they let me I use their garage. My car was ridiculously dirty because of all the salt from the roads. It needed a bath pretty bad.

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Luxury Cars Below $30,000

People normally buy used cars when they are out of budget but need to have some way to easily move theirselves around.

However, there is another segment in the used-car market that is starting to gain ground among those who have more disposable income. These people would prefer used luxury cars, because owning luxury cars is one of their dreams but they do not want to shelve out much money for it.

The cost of these luxury cars? A little below $30,000.

Link: Luxury cars for under $30,000 - CNN.com

Driving Without Insurance Can Cost You Your License

Some people drive without auto insurance thinking they will never get caught without it. Maybe they think they drive safe enough to never get in an accident. Having auto insurance is very important. You could be the safest driver out there and still get into an accident.

I was one of those people. I didn't get into an accident or have anything happen to my car. I was pulled over at a routine traffic checkpoint. I didn't have any points agaisnt my license or anything. The officer asked for my insurance card and I said I didn't have it in the car.

The officer gave me a ticket to go to court for not having insurance. When I went to court the judge asked if I had proof of insurance for when I was pulled over. When I said no the judge suspended my license for 3 months!

Driving without insurance is stupid in so many ways. I know I learned my lesson. Not only did I lose my license for 3 months, but when I got it back I had to carry an SR22 bonded insurance!

Fiat still in talks with Chrysler

Italian auto maker Fiat is still in talks with struggling US auto maker Chrysler in a deal that is seen to be beneficial for the Italian car maker.

Under the proposed deal, Fiat will have a 35% company share in Chrysler in exchange of allowing the latter to access the former's fuel efficient platforms and sales to markets outside the United States.

This is largely seen to be a good deal for Fiat since this will allow the company to enter the US market, still the world's largest despite the recession.

Link: UPDATE 1-Fiat in talks with Chrysler -Fiat vice chairman | Deals | Mergers & Acquisitions | Reuters

Parked Van Slides Into Street

The other way we got some really snow. After we got slammed with snow we had some freezing rain on top of it. As you know, that makes for some really slippery roads. The driveway at work was solid ice. There was a very thin layer of snow over the ice so it was kinda hard to tell it was icy.

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Q&A: mpfi. engines

On 09/26/08 05:54, pokhraj asked the following question:

i want to know whole of the info. about m.p.f.i. engines.

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Snow Tires

How do you know what kind of tires to get for your car in the winter? Well I was wondering that so I searched online and this is what i found.

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An Auto Show Like There is No Crisis

The recession has perfectly gone to every large multimillion even billion company share holder's nerves by making their respective businesses loose a "huge" amount of revenue and profit, and when we say to huge, it means multimillion huge. But then again there are certain companies that are still hopeful and tries to show that their companies remained almost unaffected by the recession. This is what happened in a motor show in Detroit. Read the rest of it here:

Link: A glitz-free Detroit motor show? Some carmakers didn't get the memo | Business | guardian.co.uk