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Poll: Men Would Take Care of Their Car Before Their Health
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Would it surprise you to learn that about 70 percent of American men said they find it easier to care for their cars than their personal health? Yep, it wasn’t a big shock to use either. Here’s another interesting fact that the poll unearthed – 40 percent of men asked said they would be more…
Limited Edition Ferrari Brooch Makes a Fashion Statement
The next time you want to buy your lady a little something to show how much you’re always thinking about her (and never about exotic cars), head over to the Ferrari Store. Here, you’ll find the uber-blingly limited edition Ferrari Masterpiece Jewel Brooch, a sparklicious piece of jewellery that keep you out of the dog…
Chopard’s Engine Watch Channels Luxury Auto’s Engine Block
Many watches take their inspiration from luxury cars. The newest one to take shape is Chopard’s “Engine One” for Only One charity watch, a one-off timepiece is designed to look like an engine block. This limited edition timepiece, powered by a proprietary mechanical hand-wound tourbillon movement “motor” called the L.U.C Calibre 1TRM, is set in…
Tata’s New Mini Trucks Designed For “Deep Penetration Goods Movement”
India sure knows how to do small (and cute) right. So you wouldn’t normally describe a truck as “cute,” but in the case of Tata’s Magic Iris and Ace Zip, we think you’ll agree that it’s okay this one time. Green and inexpensive, these mini trucks are designed for “deep penetration goods movement.” Made from…
Schumacher Mi3 Holds The Title As The Fastest R/C Car In The World
For some of us, remote-controlled cars (or R/C for short) just aren’t good enough. You’ve got to get in there and tinker with them – they’ve got to be faster then anyone else’s in the neighborhood. And if you live in Nic Case’s neighborhood and you want to race R/Cs, you’re going to lose… big…
Tips On Keeping Kids Safe And Preventing Vehicular Heat Stroke Deaths
b Temperatures are on the rise and it’s important to remember the dangers of leaving children in a hot car. According to child safety organization Kids and Cars, since 1998 through to the end of May 2011, 500 children have died as a result of being unintentionally left in a hot car. And even though…
Luxury Living: Move Into An Aston Martin Property
We’ve heard about automakers crossing over into clothing, accessories and lifestyle products, but this is the first we’ve heard about crossing over to housing developments. And that’s just what Aston Martin is doing. It’s just been announced that the British luxury automaker is extending its brand license agreement to international property developments (we wonder if…
Ralph Lauren Automotive Watch Inspired by 1938 Bugatti
If you’re a connoisseur of fine automobiles, you have to be conscious about how you present yourself. It’s not enough to drive the car – you need to embody the lifestyle. From the tips of your shoes, right down to the watch on your wrist, you’re a style plate for your ride of choice. And…
MINI Union Jack Sneakers: Heel-Toe in Style
Kick up your heels in the new MINI Union Jack Sneakers. These cool hi-top kicks are the latest addition to the MINI Lifestyle Collection. Sporting the Union Jack motif on the heel cap and along the shoelace eyelets, the MINI sneakers are styling in blue and contrasting white soles and laces. According to MINI, you’ll…
Prince Charles’ Eco-Village Features EV Chargers In Every Home
Britain’s royals are a pretty forward-thinking bunch. Take Prince Charles – he’s planning a whole eco-village that will feature electric car charging infrastructure as a key element. The eco-village, called Knockroon in East Ayrshire, Scotland, will consist of 700 homes to be built over 15 years. It will set out to prove that electric and…
Motor Trend Finds Out Top Five Driver Pet Peeves
What really grinds your gears when you’re out on the road? Motor Trend has asked that question to frustrated drivers and came up with an annoying list of pet peeves that drives us to distraction. Coming up with the top five irritations for drivers, the number one is being stuck behind slow drivers, taking the…
London Boaters in for a Treat with World’s First Amphibious Ice Cream Truck
You’re going to need a boat to chase down this ice cream man. Float on up to the HMS Flake 99, the world’s first amphibious ice cream truck. Making its way down the Thames in London, the Flake 99 was named after an ice cream treat and commissioned by Cadbury to celebrate Britain’s National Ice…
BMW’s Don’t TXT & Drive Campaign Set to Launch This Month
We’re all aware that texting and driving don’t mix, yet day in and day out, we hear of another accident caused by this distraction. In order to hit the point home about the dangers of this habit, BMW has taken up the cause by launching a national advertising campaign to fight the habit. Expect to…
Cars 2’s Lightning McQueen And Finn McMissile Race In Real Life
The countdown is on for the premiere of Cars 2 (in theaters June 24) and to get you all revved up, you can see two of the main character races… in real life! If you get a chance to go to the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK, which runs June 30 to July…
Limited Edition $270K Porsche Design Watch a Little Out of Your Budget
You can’t afford to buy a Porsche, so you buy the next best thing – Porsche merchandise. It’s cheaper, right? Not so much, especially when it comes to this Porsche watch. For the ever-so-outrageous price of $270,000 (you’re not reading it wrong and we didn’t add a few extra zeros to mess with your head),…
Car Negotiator App: Car Shopping Just Got Easier
Does the thought of going into a dealership to negotiate the price of a car send you into a panic? Be prepared with a new a smartphone app that helps you wrap your head around the numbers. The latest in a growing list of car-buying apps, the Car Negotiator for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad…
Smart ForTwo Illustrated With Futuristic Tweets
What would you like to see happen in the future? That’s the question posted by Smart on Twitter, and they used the resulting answers to decorate a car. In 140 characters or less, Smart asked people on Twitter what their view of the future was and had illustrator Johanna Basford pen them on a white…
Pocket Classics: Half the Size and Price of the Real Thing
They may be a little too big to fit into your pocket, but that doesn’t make the Pocket Classics any less fun. Nope, they aren’t dinky cars – these mini zoomers are half-scale replicas of classics cars, ones you can actually ride around in… and a little less costly (but only by a little bit)….
In-Dash Pioneer AppRadio Puts Smartphone Functions Upfront
Pioneer Electronics has decided to join the app party by bringing them to the dash of your car. The company is about to release a simple in-dash platform that allows you to plug in an iPhone and transfer apps to it. Available next month for under $500, the apps available for the Pioneer AppRadio include…
Survey: What Car Buyers Hate About the Experience
There are a lot of great feelings that come along with buying a new car, but there are a few things that we wish weren’t attached to the experience. Can you guess what they are? We’ll give you a hint about the top two that head the top of the list – they have to…
Swarovski Studded Audi Blinds Us with its Bling
A car isn’t flashy enough for us until you bedazzle the crap out of it (we love the sparkly Royal MINI Cooper and the Smart Fortwo convertible), so you can imagine how excited we were when we laid our peepers on the Swarovski-studded Audi that turned heads at the Moscow Tuning Show. Designed to blind…
Saudi Government Tries to Stop Woman’s Right To Drive Protest Videos
Awhile back, we told you about women in Saudi Arabia fighting against a law that states they aren’t allowed drive. We told you about Wajeha-Al-Huwaider, a women’s rights activist in Saudi Arabia, who decided to mark International Women’s Day in 2008 by shooting a video of herself driving and then posting it on YouTube. Next…
Hitch a Ride With the Avego Driver App
Hey buddy, going my way? Forget sticking out your thumb to hitch a ride. It’s 2011 and that’s not how we doing things in this social media and phone app world anymore. Give your thumb a rest a download Avego Driver, the first on-demand real-time ride-sharing application for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. So how…
Indy 500 Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary With U.S. Postage Stamp
Want to make sure that your letter gets to is destination fast? Put an Indy 500 Centennial stamp on the envelope. The Forever Stamp celebrates 100 years of racing and features the Marmon “Wasp”, driven by Ray Harroun, winner of the first Indy 500. The historic event took place on May 30, 1911 to a…
