At Consumer Guide, we know shopping for a vehicle can be daunting. It’s made even harder by the proliferation of gee-whiz and techno-gadgets available on cars, trucks and SUVs. To help you simplify things a bit, here is a glossary of common automotive innovations, some of which may not have existed the last time you [...]

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Automakers are often inspired by the natural world when naming new vehicles. How many of these auto names do you recognize?

The Barracuda is just one of
many cars that bears the name of an animal.

1. Barracuda (Plymouth)
2. Beetle (Volkswagen)
3. Bison (Chevrolet heavy-duty truck)
4. Blackhawk (Stutz)
5. Bluebird (Nissan/Datsun)
6. Bronco (Ford)
7. Charger (Dodge)
8. Cheetah (rare 1960s [...]

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(AOL Autos) — You don’t have to look too far into the past to find a time when automakers didn’t see car safety as a “selling point.” But over the last 30 years, car safety has become a prime factor in the minds of car buyers.

So, automakers responded — and as a result, cars [...]

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Your car is one of your most valued possessions. Given the significance of your wheels both for your personal and business trips, you can’t just ignore the repair and maintenance aspects of your car. A well-conditioned car means a good trip, a convenient travel towards your place of destination and comfortable and hassle-free departure.

Do [...]

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How times have indeed changed. Gone are the days when GM used to boast that “General Motors is America and America is General Motors.” As United States of America have started to subside and the reality of America’s economic problems have began to pinch hard on ordinary Americans. One of the major problems of Americans [...]

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Have you heard about a $1 billion electric vehicle re-charging infrastructure in the Bay Area? Palo Alto’s Better Place is finally bringing its ambitious, city-wide electrical grid and battery exchange service home after staking plans to do the same in Israel, Denmark, and Australia. The plan just endorsed by the San Jose, Oakland, and San [...]

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CAR AND DRIVER MAGAZINE November 2008

Car and Driver is an American automotive enthusiast magazine. Its total circulation is 1.31 million. It is owned by Hachette Filipacchi Magazines. Originally headquartered in New York City, the magazine has been based in Ann Arbor, Michigan since the late 1970s. Car and Driver was founded as Sports Cars Illustrated [...]

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In a democratic and civilized society where the rights of a person are determined in accordance with established rules, employment of a person acquainted with those rules becomes a necessity both to the litigants and to the court. A litigant is ordinarily not versed in the law and its intricacies. A court, on the other [...]

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EcoQuest International has been in the web for the past couple of years. It is a site which is committed to giving excellent service to web users by offering practical health products. It envisions to better the quality of life of the people by providing health-related products which will advance both individual and societal interest [...]

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Orders are flooding in for the Audi-engined sports car KTM has acquired a new facility to produce 1,000 cars a year. The initial plan was to farm out the building of the car, but KTM will build its extreme machine itself alongside 10,000 quad-bikes in its new production facility. In fact, KTM decides to build [...]

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