Exotic limos for your next big PR event
Sometimes if you work in a unique industry in which public relations and positive publicity are key to your success, you look for out of the ordinary ways of accomplishing simple tasks. For example, Dallas and Fort Worth, along with neighboring Aust...
Car essentials: brake bleeding and brake tools
Brake fluid absorbs water from the atmosphere, lowering its boiling point and causing corrosion. Particulate contamination--microscopic particles of rust and rubber-hastens wear of moving components. This is why manufacturers and mechanics recommend...
What is the point in having a car bra?
What’s the point in having a car bra? Enough people swear by the idea that I see the word “LeBra” almost everywhere I drive. I truly cannot digest the concept of having one of these thick vinyl albatrosses stretched across the front of one’s...
Where will they put LED automotive lights next?
LED lights first made automotive appearances in small doses many years ago, replacing alarm lights and stereo displays. Since then, LEDs have grown to replace entire tail light assemblies, running lights, and many other automotive lighting applicati...
Tackling Major Car Shopping Decisions
If you are in the market for a vehicle, you have likely already figured out that there are far more decisions to make than which vehicle to purchase. Here we examine some of the major decisions that confront car shoppers, as well as advice on how to...
The importance of keeping tires properly inflated
When it comes to proper maneuvering, handling and braking practices for your car or any other motor vehicle, your tires play a role which is absolutely critical as they are the only part of your vehicle which maintains contact with the road. Practic...
A Spark to light up GM India? Or will it immolate?
I was at the launch of the Chevrolet Spark yesterday. It's a good car, perhaps the most credible and promising product to have come out of GM India ever. The looks are smart and cute and the specs are promising. GM guys seemed to be gung-ho about th...
Hyundai to hire its own government guy
Recently, there has been a buzz that Hyundai India may be looking at Union finance secretary Ashok Jha for the post of the President. Before you throw up your hands in despair and exclaim, “What the heck?”, have a look at the reasons. HMIL has b...
Get the genuine Infiniti Part from a genuine Infiniti dealer
Cars, this is the one thing without which one just cannot imagine moving around. I mean it is actually impossible to do without it in this fast paced world where speed is one of the most important things. At the same time, cars are also an object of...
So how many platforms does Maruti have?
Automotive reporting done by daily newspapers seems to be getting absurder by the day. Most of our reporting relies on 'getting a byte from some senior executive' and then 'weaving a tall tale around it'. There is very little research, no understand...
Safe Habits for Driving in the Rain
While most of us would prefer to simply stay dry inside our homes until rain subsides, responsibilities such as going to work require that we endure the wet weather nonetheless, putting us at the mercy of wet roads and the questionable skills of cou...