http://www.thecarconnection.com/tips Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:10:10 -0500 Tips and Advice -- find out how to maintain, service, insure, wash and wax, and change the oil in your car with tips from TheCarConnection.com. Lifestyle/Fashion http://static.thecarconnection.com/website/tcc-feed.jpg http://www.thecarconnection.com/tips http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1012316_is-the-volt-really-coming-that-soon http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1012316_is-the-volt-really-coming-that-soon 1196236800 What's the deal with lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles? Are they really coming as soon as Chevy's Volt would seem to indicate -- or are they still too pie-in-the-sky to gamble on? GM is racing full-speed ahead with suppliers to develop them for volume production of the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid in about three years. ...
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]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1012223_at-witz-end-cafe-the-0-2-solution http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1012223_at-witz-end-cafe-the-0-2-solution 1194249600 If CO2 causes global warming, why are critics attacking cars alone? The man-made global warming theory touted by technologically challenged alarmists, agenda-driven politicians, and their willing accomplices in the mainstream media holds that increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere is causing our planet to warm, ...]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1012063_at-witz-end-greenhouse-gassing http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1012063_at-witz-end-greenhouse-gassing 1191222000   "Witzenburg's article was well thought out and insightful." "Your article is lame. You for that matter are lame. Folks like you convince other lame people that you are an authority on the subject. That is scarey [sic]. Your [sic] the Dufuss!" "Thanks for preventing intellectual discussion on this for all future generations." ...]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1011867_at-witz-end-whats-a-crossover http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1011867_at-witz-end-whats-a-crossover 1186988400 Most remember when cars were cars, and trucks were trucks . Even back when cars, too, rode on full frames, trucks were clearly different. They looked like trucks , drove like trucks , and worked like trucks . Hardly anyone but contractors and cowboys wanted to drive one. When fuel economy consciousness first whacked this country ...]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1011527_at-witz-end-can-detroit-survive http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1011527_at-witz-end-can-detroit-survive 1185174000 By Gary Witzenburg A lot of hands have been rightly wrung and ink well consumed lately over " Detroit 's" prospects for survival. Given all U.S. companies' huge cost disadvantage vs. competitors based anywhere else, can our final three besieged U.S. automakers overcome that plus their union, an indifferent and often hostile ...]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1011159_at-witz-end-the-35-mpg-showroom http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1011159_at-witz-end-the-35-mpg-showroom 1182927600 Most of us know that the U.S. Senate has passed an energy bill that dictates a 35-mpg Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) for all vehicles, cars and trucks , by 2020, and the House will likely follow. But how many understand what that means? I'll bet the technologically challenged lawmakers who voted for that standard, like their ...]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010992_at-witz-end-no-consensus-on-global-warming http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010992_at-witz-end-no-consensus-on-global-warming 1179212400 If you have tried to reason with a GWF (Global Warming Fanatic), you know it's a waste of time. They believe GW with a passion that has no room for facts and data. Tell them the planet has been warming (slightly) since 1977 because it's on the up side of a solar-driven warming and cooling cycle going back hundreds of thousands of years. Tell ...]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010906_at-witz-end-i-dont-buy-global-warming http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010906_at-witz-end-i-dont-buy-global-warming 1177484400 Take a deep breath before reading this. Now, exhale. Gotcha. You have just polluted the atmosphere and melted polar ice, according to global warming fanatics (GWFs, or "enthusiasts," as our editor prefers), who have polluted a lot of media and public minds on this issue -- not to mention our country's dangerously misguided Supreme ...]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010626_at-witz-end-whats-an-american-car http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010626_at-witz-end-whats-an-american-car 1172563200 So what is an "American" car? If it is simply one built in America , as most foreign makers and U.S. media would have you believe, then vehicles built in Canada are Canadian, those assembled in Mexico are Mexican and Porsches built in Finland are Finnish. But we know intuitively that's not the case. And yet in this global ...]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010597_bob-stempel-on-the-hydrogen-prius http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010597_bob-stempel-on-the-hydrogen-prius 1172131200 Those who have been around the business a while remember Bob Stempel as Chevrolet chief engineer, Pontiac and then Chevrolet general manager, VP of the Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac Group, president of General Motors and eventually chairman. Those who know him know a warm, dynamic, extremely intelligent leader who never forgets your name. ...]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010596_tcc-drives-a-hydrogen-prius http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010596_tcc-drives-a-hydrogen-prius 1172131200 Toyota's Prius has become a standard-bearer of sort for the green machine movement. Buyers who were looking for technologically advanced vehicles with good fuel economy latched on to the Prius - and have so in larger numbers since its 1998 introduction. Now, Toyota is planning the third generation of its bleeding-edge hybrid , with a ...]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010290_at-witz-end-no-free-lunch-at-cafe http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010290_at-witz-end-no-free-lunch-at-cafe 1167206400 There are those who understand and accept the laws of physics, and those who don't. Unfortunately, the latter group is a vast majority with no technical education or experience and clearly includes every lawmaker, environmentalist, and media member who believes that CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) needs to be substantially increased. ...]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010274_pr-survey-puts-volvo-on-top http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010274_pr-survey-puts-volvo-on-top 1166601600 Public relations, sometimes called "public affairs" or included in the broader field of "communications," is really media relations. Its ultimate target is the public, which is most effectively reached through reporters. Auto PR pros don't design, engineer, develop or build vehicles, but they can influence media reports by the ways in ...]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1009405_witzenburg-what-really-killed-the-ev1 http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1009405_witzenburg-what-really-killed-the-ev1 1154847600 Review: Who Killed the Electric Car? by Bengt Halvorson (8/6/2006) Film about death of the EV1 sparks big-screen debate. All About Green Machines: Glossary by TCC Team (7/17/2006) What's the difference between a biodiesel and McDonald's fry machine? Find out here. Mechanic's Tale: Feel-Good Greenism by Douglas ...]]> http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1009268_witz-elephant-in-the-room-part-ii http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1009268_witz-elephant-in-the-room-part-ii 1151823600