http://www.thecarconnection.com/tips Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:36:09 -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://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1037929_2010-hummer-h3-and-h3t-treading-water-before-real-change http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1037929_2010-hummer-h3-and-h3t-treading-water-before-real-change Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:58:00 -0500 Hummer is in the midst of a move--from General Motors to China's Sichuan Tengzhong--but the brand has announced details for its 2010 H3 SUV and H3T pickup, which are slated to go on sale next month. Changes are minimal. The standard engine is still a 239-horsepower, 3.7-liter five-cylinder engine, but most noteworthy is that the H3 line finally ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1037501_ugliest-cars-of-the-past-50-years-you-might-be-surprised http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1037501_ugliest-cars-of-the-past-50-years-you-might-be-surprised Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:59:00 -0400 Think that the design of the Volkswagen New Beetle is more hideous than iconic? Apparently you're not alone. Business Week has posted its "Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years," including a number of models present and past, and the New Beetle is just one of the newer and still-produced models on the list. Others include the Cadillac ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1037478_michael-pollan-eats-words-prius-driving-carnivores-are-ok http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1037478_michael-pollan-eats-words-prius-driving-carnivores-are-ok Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:44:00 -0400 Last week, author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, etc.) made headlines when he said, "A vegan in a HUMMER has a lighter carbon footprint than beef-eater in a Prius". This week, predictably, Mr. Pollan is eating those words: although studies have shown that meat-eaters generate two tons more CO2 per year than their vegan neighbors, the ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1036748_hummer-h3-h3t-production-to-restart-by-november http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1036748_hummer-h3-h3t-production-to-restart-by-november Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:45:00 -0400 HUMMER's sale is all but complete--though there are some worrying details left to be handled with the Chinese government--and talk of production resuming in the Shreveport plant where the H3 and H3T are built is already starting to leak out from the company. Dealers will be glad to hear the news, should it prove true, as many are running so ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1036335_hummer-sale-to-chinas-tengzhong-official http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1036335_hummer-sale-to-chinas-tengzhong-official Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:17:00 -0400 The saga of GM's sale of HUMMER has finally come to a close. With the sudden collapse of the Penske-Saturn deal last week, many feared a similar fate would befall HUMMER, but today's announcement of the sale agreement between GM and China's Tengzhong puts those fears to rest, at least for the present. The deal must still secure final ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1034423_whatever-you-did-to-your-car-mother-nature-did-worse http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1034423_whatever-you-did-to-your-car-mother-nature-did-worse Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:18:00 -0400 We have friends who are weather fans, or weather fiends. They reload storm maps obsessively, and converse in the language of descending fronts and scattered sprinkles. We are not those people. We just get rained on occasionally. But even we were drawn into the Weather Channel's website by its compelling slideshow of the carnage Mother Nature ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1033866_would-you-crush-a-bentley-no-not-a-cash-for-clunkers-tradein http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1033866_would-you-crush-a-bentley-no-not-a-cash-for-clunkers-tradein Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:55:00 -0400 Most of the United States now require that you insure your vehicle before you can register it. Enforcement, however, varies considerably. As we learned recently, in New York state, you can be arrested for driving an uninsured vehicle if you incur a moving violation in it that would otherwise net you just a traffic ticket. But it's a lot ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1021998_tough-lux-2009-hummer-h2-and-2009-range-rover-among-most-expensive-to-insure http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1021998_tough-lux-2009-hummer-h2-and-2009-range-rover-among-most-expensive-to-insure Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:34:00 -0400 You might be able to swing quite a deal today on one of the most luxurious off-road-worthy barges, but be prepared to pay extra--over and over again--in your insurance premiums. The 2009 Mercedes-Benz G-Class, 2009 Hummer H2, and 2009 Range Rover rank as the most expensive SUVs to insure, according to the insurance shopping site ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1021725_hummer-update-chinese-derision-cajun-au-revoirs-and-a-big-tennessee-howdy http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1021725_hummer-update-chinese-derision-cajun-au-revoirs-and-a-big-tennessee-howdy Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:55:00 -0400 The drama at HUMMER rages on this week--if anyone still cares about the unloved brand that GM's sawing off its corporate family tree and adopting out to the Chinese. (What would Madonna say?) The details of today's moves start in Louisiana, home of the HUMMER H3--apparently, not for long. The local New Orleans paper, the aptly named denial ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1020970_electric-hummer-h3-in-washington-any-impact http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1020970_electric-hummer-h3-in-washington-any-impact Tue, 26 May 2009 12:28:00 -0400   I first saw the 2009 HUMMER H3 by Raser Technologies at the SAE World Congress held last month in Detroit. The vehicle uses a powertrain similar to vehicles from Fisker Automotive; an electric drive motor that takes power from a large battery pack. The batteries are charged via a plug-in source and an on-board "range extender" generator ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1020058_link-love-from-the-car-connection-leno-picks-the-hits-madoff-standoff-ends-and-what-ho-bring-on-the-dancing-girls http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1020058_link-love-from-the-car-connection-leno-picks-the-hits-madoff-standoff-ends-and-what-ho-bring-on-the-dancing-girls Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:55:00 -0400 On the black list -- You know how when you go to the DMV, they have a list of naughty, no-no words for vanity plates? Well, Saudi Arabia has a similar list. At the top of it? "USA". Daaaaamn. [Autocar] Better than Walter Mercado-- Jay Leno is a multifaceted kind of guy--part entertainer, part philanthropist, part car nut, and apparently, part ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1020022_link-love-from-the-car-connection-fabio-fails-gas-stations-that-rule-and-going-big-wheels-on-easter-sunday http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1020022_link-love-from-the-car-connection-fabio-fails-gas-stations-that-rule-and-going-big-wheels-on-easter-sunday Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:23:00 -0400   Full service style -- No matter how you feel about gasoline, the stations that provide it can be pretty rad, and luckily for us, someone has pulled together a handful of architectural homages to America's fave fossil fuel. Not on the list? Barbie's Beer Barn and Discount Unleaded. Clearly, the votes were rigged. [WebUrbanist] Blond goes bad ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1019557_mars-researchers-hope-humvee-will-get-35-million-miles-per-tank http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1019557_mars-researchers-hope-humvee-will-get-35-million-miles-per-tank Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:46:30 -0400 The public has not always been kind to the Mars Institute. Over the years, the organization has been criticized for being unreasonable, impractical, and unnaturally fixated on Star Trek (the William Shatner version, natch.) The public has not always been kind to Hummers, either.  Folks who drive America's favorite high-end monster truck have ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1016818_gm-going-green-and-very-lean http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1016818_gm-going-green-and-very-lean Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:01:55 -0500 The Scottish poet Robert Burns once said, "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry." Why bother planning then? Well, as Congress made abundantly clear during the Big 3 bailout talks last fall, you have to have some kind of plan in place before you can expect any help. (Unless, of course, you're part of the banking industry.) True to ..]]> http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1016572_gm-takes-drastic-action-announces-record-production-cutbacks http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1016572_gm-takes-drastic-action-announces-record-production-cutbacks Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:33:20 -0500 "Reeling from a 41 percent drop in its November U.S. sales," says Automotive News, and not quite sure where the money to stay afloat will come from after yesterday's rejection of the domestic auto bailout deal, GM will cut about 30 percent of its North American production capacity during the first quarter of 2009. That's a drop of about 250,000 ..]]>