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How Twitter Saved me $700
I rented a car from National recently. When I picked up the vehicle, I asked the agent what it would take to switch to a Prius from what had been reserved for me. To my surprise, he said it would actually be a *downgrade* from the reservation. Huzzah! At no time did the agent state [...]
2010 Toyota Prius V Car Review
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I’ve had my new Toyota Prius for a couple of weeks now, and I have to say – I love it! I wanted to drive it for awhile before I attempted to review it for all of you. This was to [...]
How are Computers and Cars Alike?
This is Scott Morgan’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily [...]
Is the American Auto Industry Dead?
As noted in an email to me this morning, GM has asked Congress for a short-term emergency aid package to help them survive the credit crunch and come out stronger on the other side. This has caused an intense public debate with media on both sides weighing in on the merits of federal aid for [...]
What will Cars of Tomorrow be Like?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed With the Technological advances being made every day, what do you think the future holds for automobiles? Where, and how, do you see yourself “driving” twenty years from now? With the gas prices being so insanely high right now, it naturally [...]
Diecast Car Collecting
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed MyNameIsMatt2 writes: “Do you like cars? I LOVE them, and that is one reason I got into Diecast Car collecting. Diecast Cars are things like Hot Wheels, Johnny Lightning, Green Light, Matchbox, etc. They are pretty much any miniature car that [...]
Energy Efficient Cars: What you Don’t Know
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Bad Bad Leroy Dan had to call me to interrupt a video I was trying to do on saving energy. You know I had to record it when he started saying that our Government is not allowing us to save energy. [...]
What’s the Best way to Buy a Car?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed JP may only be 13 years old, but he sure does have an excellent grasp of what you should be looking at and thinking about when shopping for a new car. Here are the tips he sent in to me recently. [...]
Tips to Properly Maintain your Vehicle
Keaton was getting his oil changed the other day, and realized he doesn’t remember me ever putting something up about vehicle maintenance. He jotted down his top five tips for maintaining your car or truck…. or van… or SUV… Have your oil changed every three to four thousand miles or 4 months… which ever comes [...]
How to Deal with Winter and your Car
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Winter not only brings Christmas, it also brings bad weather for much of the United States. Snow, sleet and ice are prevalent, and can wreak havoc on your car. Here are some excellent tips to help you deal more effectively with [...]
GM IAA Announcements
http://live.pirillo.com – here’s a front row seat to GM’s product announcements at IAA 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany. If you look real close, you can see a few industry superstars sitting in the audience (when I turn the camera away from the stage to point it at Ponzi for a moment). In essence, the environmental strategy [...]
How to Fit a Segway into a Car
http://live.pirillo.com – We live-streamed the unveiling of GM’s newest electric car concept fully at a substantially lower bitrate, but here’s the Segway segment from Ponzi’s perspective. Again, our position was not fully ideal – but at least we were able to capture the energy. NOTE: General Motors helped cover travel expenses for our trip to [...]
Hydrogen Car Information Interview
http://live.pirillo.com – Ponzi and I had a rare opportunity to learn more about hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles with one of the automobile industry’s leading minds, Dr. Lars Peter Thiesen. The GM HydroGen4 is the European version of the Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell. In fall 2007, the first of these fuel cell cars — a global fleet [...]
Bob Lutz, GM Blogger Roundtable
http://live.pirillo.com – You’ve likely already watched my live interview with Bob at http://youtube.com/watch?v=-ysnr-V2dRg (in which I was quite tongue-tied). This new recording was from an exclusive roundtable Q&A session with a few fellow bloggers. Bob begins with his reasons for starting a blog… NOTE: General Motors helped cover travel expenses for our trip to Germany. [...]
Germany Blogger/Youtube Meetup
http://live.pirillo.com – Ponzi and I are still in Frankfurt, and we’d love to meet our virtual friends in real life! I may need help with translating this all-call to German, BTW. :) NOTE: General Motors helped cover travel expenses for our trip to Germany. Without their direct support, this remote coverage would not have been [...]
