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Friday, February 28, 2014

7 Child Car Seat Safety Tips
Parents trying to keep their children safe in vehicles and comply with the law still may have some difficulty figuring out the best way to protect their offspring.  The facts are that three out of four children in car safety seats are not properly secured, or not ...

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Categories: Child Car Seats Guides Cars | Tags: Car tips, Child Car, parent tips, Safety Tips, Seat Safety

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Child Car Seats: How To Find The Best Value
Parents and caregivers have many different choices when it comes to choosing car seats to safely transport their children in the family vehicle.
How do you find the best value car seat? It all comes down to selecting the car seat that is the best to...

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Categories: Child Car Seats Guides Cars | Tags: Best Value, Car Seats, Child Seats, Find Car Seats, How to, Parents Central, SafeKids

Using VIN Numbers To Check Car Accident History
While this isn’t something you need to worry about when buying a new car, when purchasing a used car, experts say it’s best to spend a few dollars to obtain a vehicle history report. Most dealers will run a vehicle history report on a used car for i...

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Categories: Guide to Understanding VIN Cars | Tags: Accident History, Car Accident, Check Car, Check VIN, Using VIN, VIN Numbers

Understanding Vehicle History
Consumers in the market for a used car need to do their homework. The best way to prepare for used car shopping is to have a basic understanding of a vehicle’s history. This includes everything that happens to a vehicle from the time it is first sold that involves u...

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Vehicle Identification Number
The acronym VIN stands for vehicle identification number, a unique 17-digit alpha and numeric string of characters for each vehicle. VIN numbers have been mandated by the U.S Department of Transportation to be stamped on every vehicle since the early 1980s.
A VIN is...

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Categories: Guide to Understanding VIN Cars | Tags: car parts, Find VIN, Identification Number, vehicle, VIN, VIN stamped, What is, Where is

Selling Your Car: How To Trade In Your Car
Falling for a car on a dealer’s lot is the easy part. What can get sticky is knowing how to trade in your existing car. With the right mindset and preparation, you can make quick work of a tedious process.
Clean it–to a point. You can’t erase yea...

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Categories: Car Selling Guide Cars | Tags: car dealer, How to, Selling car, Trade In

Using Craigslist To Sell Your Car Fast
Craigslist has gained a reputation for its colorful variety of ads, from hot plates to hot dates. The free and instant format makes it a popular choice for quick buying or selling, not the least of which are cars. Check these guidelines for better odds of...

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Categories: Car Selling Guide Cars | Tags: car keywords, car prices, Craigslist, sell car, Sell Your Car

Use Social Media To Sell Your Car
It has likely been years since you last shopped for a car using classified ads in print. Perhaps you’ve come of age searching exclusively online. Upping the ante, car sellers now include social media sites. Consider these and others for broad and free exposure w...

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Categories: Buying Guides, Car Selling Guide Cars | Tags: Use Social Media

Tips to Sell Your Car Fast
Eventually, and for any of many reasons, you will probably need to sell your car fast. You might sacrifice some money in exchange for a fast sale, but such is the price of quick results. Whatever the circumstances, we have some tips to help get that car out of your...

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Categories: Car Selling Guide Cars | Tags: All car tips, How to, sell car, sell fast, sell tips

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Kelley Blue Book Price
Buying a vehicle can be a complicated and involved process, not the least of which is making sure that you don’t pay more for the vehicle than necessary. You want to get it for the best price possible, but how do you do that?
The Kelley Blue Book price is one method c...

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Categories: Car Shopping Guide Cars | Tags: asking price, Buying vehicle, KBB promises, Kelley Blue Book, Prices, Purchase Price, vehicle market

Car Dealer Options & Accessories
When you buy new or used from a car dealer, you could drive home with more than a new set of wheels. A number of options and accessories could come along for the ride, bundled into the monthly payment. They can add up, so consider them carefully. This should...

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Categories: Car Shopping Guide Cars | Tags: car accessories, car dealer, car options, check accessories, test

Top Car Test Drive Tips From The Pros
So you want to buy a new car? Or a car that’s new to you? You’ll want to test drive it first, and we have some tips on how to make the most of your time with the car.
Of course, you shouldn’t just show up and expect to learn everything...

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Categories: Car Shopping Guide Cars | Tags: buy a new car, Car Test, Drive Tips

Guide To Selling Your Used Car
Somewhere between automotive hand-me-downs and trade-ins is the prospect of selling your used car. Following some basic steps can lead to a successful sale, and could even mean more money in your pocket.
Prepare yourself. You may need to answer calls, emails or...

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Categories: Used Car Buying Guide Cars | Tags: Guide To Selling, Selling, Used Car

How To Avoid Used Car Lawsuits
When selling your used car, besides getting it detailed and looking spiffy as can be, there are some other things to consider. You want to protect yourself and avoid a possible used car lawsuit.
How can you be sued for selling a used car? Among the potential...

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Categories: Used Car Buying Guide Cars | Tags: Avoid Car, Car Lawsuits, How to, Used Car

Used Car Lemon Laws
Does it seem that your car is in for repairs more than it’s in your driveway–or more to the point, for the same repairs, over and over again? If that’s the case, lemon laws might apply to you.
Simply put, lemon laws are meant to give you some legal leverage to seek a ref...

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Categories: Used Car Buying Guide Cars | Tags: Lemon Laws, repairs, Used Car, vehicle

Top Used Car Buying Tips
Buying a used car is similar in some ways to buying a new one, but it is very different in others. What’s the same is that you need to know what you want and you are looking for a good deal. From there, however, the approach takes quite a different turn. Winding up with a...

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Categories: Used Car Buying Guide Cars | Tags: Buying car, Buying Tips, experts, recommend, Used Car

Buying A Used Car: Negotiating Tips & Tricks
Whether you shop a dealer or private party, buying a used car is going to take negotiating. Not everyone relishes the idea, but with a few tips and tricks you can make it through unscathed.
Know the car you want. Wandering aimlessly around a car...

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Categories: Used Car Buying Guide Cars | Tags: Buying car, buying idea, car dealer, car tricks, Negotiating Tips, Used Car

Saturday, February 22, 2014

What To Do When Your Car Is Recalled
No one likes to hear about a recall involving their car, but it is important to pay attention to any notification you receive from your vehicle manufacturer about safety recalls. This is usually a letter that comes via first-class mail, although the...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: at no charge, particular recall, Recalled, safety recall, What To Do

Where’s The Best Place To Get Info On Your Car
Turning on the evening news, there’s a story about a car recall. You hear the automaker’s name and the year, make and model of the vehicles involved in the recall. When you own one of these vehicles, you’ll want to get as much information about the r...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: Best Place, car info, get car info, Get Info, safety recalls

Car Recalls: How Do Cars Get Recalled
More than 500 million U.S. vehicles have been recalled for safety defects since 1966, when the federal government started overseeing recalls. And with 16.2 million vehicles recalled last year alone, the chances are quite high that a used car you’re...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: Car Recalls, Get Recalled, How Do, issue recalls, safety defects

How To Do A Simple Car Checkup
Whether you drive every day or just every so often, your car needs attention just the same. What should you look for? What should you do? Here are some tips on how to do a simple car checkup.
Check tire air and wear and tear
Monthly, check to ensure all tires,...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: Basic Car Care, Car Checkup, How to, Simple Checkup, Tune up

Car Maintenance Checklist: The 5 Other Essentials
Most car nuts consider themselves good stewards, but even the most common checks get overlooked in between regular maintenance intervals. If you’re already on top of oil changes, tire rotations, and other basic upkeep, make sure to check...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: Car Essentials, Car Maintenance, car repare, Maintenance Checklist, top essentials

How To Know When Your Tires Need Replacing
Reading the tread of your tires can foretell the future, sort of like reading your palm, or tarot cards. But it doesn’t cost you $1.95 a minute with Miss Cleo to figure out if your tires are good or bad.
Once a week, get in the habit of checking your t...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: Car tires, How To Know, replace tires, Tires Replacing

How To Jump Start A Car’s Battery
Nothing can ruin your day like getting in your car and it won’t start. The culprit may very well be a dead battery. Using a kit available at auto parts stores, you can jump start a car’s battery and get back on the road – assuming there’s another car to provide j...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: battery level, Car’s Battery, How to, Jump Start, Start A Car

How to Push/Roll Start A Car
When you get in your car, turn the ignition and nothing happens, what do you do? It could be your battery is drained. If you don’t have jumper cables in the vehicle or simply don’t have them, one option for getting the car going again is to push or roll start it....

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: Push car, Roll car, Start A Car

Friday, February 21, 2014

Car Maintenance Mistakes
Ask any owner of the several well-documented, million-mile cars how their vehicles lasted so long. We presume none will advocate years of car maintenance mistakes as the key to long car life. Steer clear of these mistakes to keep rolling.
Ignoring oil and other...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: Car Maintenance, car Mistakes, car recommended, Car tires

Tire Rotation & Tire Changing Tips
Tire technology has evolved beyond the first pneumatic tires developed for bicycles over 125 years ago by pioneers like John Dunlop and William Thompson. Even the tires your parents used in recent decades are no match for the complexity of today’s tires. N...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: Car tires, remove tires, Tire Changing, tire monitors, tire pressure, Tire Rotation

Car Washing Tips: Detailing The Interior
We do a lot of living inside our cars, and the end results are more than just stories to tell. Our interiors quickly show the rigors of commuting, errands and road trips. Dust, receipts and random French fries begin claiming too much of our personal...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: Car Washing, Clean car, Detailing The Interior, Washing Tips

Car Washing Tips: Buffing
Car washing is a must, but it doesn’t address scratches and oxidation that come from everyday use and exposure. For that, buffing is the answer. Here are some basic tips to consider.
Get the right goods. Invest in a rotary polisher if you haven’t already done so. You cou...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: Buffing, Car Washing, Clean car, Washing Tips

Car Washing Tips: Washing And Waxing
Perhaps one of the most accurate litmus tests for car lovers is whether he or she considers washing and waxing a pleasure or a chore. Fortunately, with the right preparation and technique, great results can be had by all.
What you need. Get together a clean...

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Categories: Advice, Buying Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: Car Washing, car Waxing, Clean car, Washing Tips

Is It The Best Time To Buy A New Car
Timing isn’t everything; but if you’ve decided you want (or need) a new car, the month, day, and even time you go in and complete the deal can affect how good of a deal you get.
There are two sides to thinking about this: First you need to decide...

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Categories: Buying Guides Cars | Tags: Buy car, car deal, car financing, how to buy, New Car, Time To Buy

Oil Change Tips & Tricks
There is no better way to prolong engine life and extend its efficiency than with regular oil changes. If you show your car the love firsthand, these oil change tips and tricks make it less of a chore.
Where to begin. Your owners manual will list the exact oil...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: Best oil change tips, How to, Oil Change Tips

Car Fluid Levels: How to Check and Maintain
Fluids are the lifeblood of your car. Besides being necessary for many of the mechanical components in your car to serve their tasks, fluids also cool, lubricate, and protect them from premature failure. Though your car has many types of fluid, it’s i...

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How Often Should I Change My Oil?
Whether you’re a do-it-yourselfer and handle your own oil changes — or have this messy, not-fun job handled by a service shop — it’s important to know when to change, why to change, and what to watch out for:
When should you change your oil? This varies from vehi...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: Car Oil, check car oil, Oil Changing, Oil level, Oil tips

Recycling Your Car’s Oil
You might find the proper disposal of old parts and fluids a dilemma, especially if you like to do your own car repairs and maintenance. Automotive fluids are highly toxic and can’t just be put in the garbage or poured down the sewer drain. Where do you get rid of t...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: better oil, Car Oil, Oil Changes, oil filters, Oil quality, Recycling Oil

How to Change Your Car’s Oil: 7 Simple Steps
Here’s the bummer: Your car needs periodic maintenance, which means, you have to do more than just fill it up with gas every other day and vacuum it out before a big date.
Now, for the good news. The most basic maintenance of all — the oil cha...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: better oil, Car Oil, Oil Changes, Oil quality, oil rating

Car Oil Changes
Are you puzzled about the types of motor oil available? Wondering if you’re choosing the right one for your car? Here’s a crash course, so to speak:
Multi-viscosity or straight-weight. Multi-viscosity oils are those denoted by two numbers with a ‘W-‘ in between (for example, 10...

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Categories: Advice, Maintenance Guides, Tips & Advice Cars | Tags: better oil, Car Oil, Oil Changes, Oil quality, oil rating

2014 Lumma Design Range Rover CLR R
The complete CLR R package offers a sporty looking wide body with new bumpers, wide wheel arch flares, lower door panels, and an aggressively re-styled lightweight carbon-fibre bonnet with additional air scoops. The new carbon-fibre package include a new front...

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Categories: Land Rover Cars | Tags: 2014, carbon-fibre, Lumma Design, Sport Cars

Thursday, February 20, 2014

2014 A Kahn Design Land Rover Defender 2.4 TDCI 90 Hard Top
Defender has always been one of the world’s toughest and most relentless go-anywhere vehicles. That ‘anywhere’ would traditionally have been vertical mountainsides and searing desertscapes, rather than elite cultural events and tree-...

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Categories: Land Rover Cars | Tags: 2014, A Kahn Design, Concept cars, Land Rover Defender, X-Lander

2014 Audi RS 4 Avant Nogaro
Under the hood of the Audi RS 4 Avant Nogaro selection operates a high-revving V8 naturally aspirated engine with a displacement of 4,163 cc. The 4.2 FSI delivers 331 kW (450 hp) of power output at 8,250 rpm, with peak torque of 430 Nm (317.15 lb-ft) available between...

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Categories: Audi Cars | Tags: 20-inch wheels, 2014, Audi RS, Audi RS 4, Avant Nogaro, fuel efficiency, RS sport, V8 engine

2014 BMW X3
The new BMW X3 is available from launch with a choice of four diesel and three petrol engines, with outputs ranging from 110 kW/150 hp to 230 kW/313 hp. The state-of-the-art units with BMW TwinPower Turbo technology guarantee outstanding performance combined with low fuel...

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Categories: BMW Cars | Tags: 2014, BMW X-Series, BMW X3, CO2 emissions, colour concept, eight-speed, reducing CO2, Sport Cars, TwinPower

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

2014 BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe
The BMW 4 Series Gran Coupé has exactly the same dimensions as the two-door coupé: a length of 4,638 millimeters, a width of 1,825 millimeters and a wheelbase of 2,810 millimeters. Up front, both models are identical and share the typical BMW design features like the ...

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Categories: BMW Cars | Tags: 2014, 4.6 to 4.7 liters, BMW 4-Series, BMW Coupe, CO2 emission, EU6 emissions, Gran Coupé, TwinPower

2014 Maserati GranTurismo Sport
An evolution of the GranTurismo S and the GranTurismo S Automatic, the GranTurismo Sport delivers a range of technical features that enhance its sporting character, both inside and out.



The GranTurismo Sport has been designed to stand out from the coupe market...

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Categories: Maserati Cars | Tags: 2014, 4.7-litre, Coupe cars, GranTurismo, Maserati Granturismo, Sport Cars, V8 engine

Saturday, February 15, 2014

2014 G-Power BMW M3 Hurricane 337 Edition
G-POWER has now introduced a special edition of the M3 V8 SK I, SK II and SK II CS supercharger systems called „HURRICANE 337 Edition”. Carbon add-ons and a unique “HURRICANE 337 Edition” graphic design for the air box underline the exclusive character of...

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Categories: BMW Cars | Tags: 2014, 30 years anniversary, BMW M-Series, G-Power, M3 V8 SK I, Prices, Tuning

2014 Opel Meriva review
The new Meriva features Opel’s new generation diesel powertrain, the 1.6 CDTI that is just having its debut in the Zafira Tourer. This ultra-refined whisper-diesel, the quietest in its class, is initially available in the power variant 100 kW/136 hp and delivers 320 N...

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Categories: Opel Cars | Tags: 1.4 liter, 1.6 CDTI, 2014, CO2 emissions, diesel engines, Euro 6, gasoline engines, Opel Meriva

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

2011 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is a consequent of the further development of the classic exclusive 1,001-hp Bugatti Veyron 16.4, launched in 2005. This model offers a stunning set of specifications, such as the twin clutch gearbox with seven speeds, the...

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Categories: Bugatti Cars | Tags: 2011, Bugatti Veyron, fotos de bugatti veyron 2011

Saturday, February 8, 2014

2014 Shelby Cobra 289 FIA 50th Anniversary
In 1964 Shelby American introduced the FIA version of the small block Cobra which dominated it’s class in many forms of racing throughout the 60′s against marques like Corvette, Jaguar and Aston Martin. To celebrate this 50th anniversary Shelby American ...

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Categories: Shelby Cars | Tags: 2014, 289 FIA Cobras, Anniversary, cars in American, Shelby Cobra

2014 Shelby Cobra 50th Anniversary
The Shelby Cobra took the sports car world by storm when it was introduced in 1962. Shelby American took the AC “Ace” chassis, inserted a small block Ford engine and re-engineered the car to handle the additional power.



Fact is, CSX2000 is the first Shelby Co...

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Categories: Shelby Cars | Tags: 2014, Anniversary, CSX8000-series Cobra, Shelby Cobra, Shelby Cobra vehicles

2014 Vauxhall ADAM Black & White Editions
The Vauxhall ADAM is the best connected small car in its segment and the new ADAM Black Edition and ADAM White Edition come with Vauxhall’s IntelliLink infotainment system and Siri Eyes Free voice control fitted as standard. They reflect typical s...

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Categories: Vauxhall Cars | Tags: 2014, black Edition, Concept cars, Sport Cars, Vauxhall Adam, White Edition


At the heart of the 2014 MX-5 remains the highly-responsive MZR 2.0-liter DOHC four-cylinder engine with an output of 167 horsepower at 7,000 rpm with 140 lb-ft of torque at 5,000 rpm. Automatic-equipped models feature the same torque output but produce 158 horsepower at 6,700 rpm. The...

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Categories: Mazda Cars | Tags: 17-inch wheels, 2014, Luxury Cars, Mazda MX, MX-5 Miata, MZR 2.0-liter, Sedan sport, six-speed, Sports Coupés