Smoking in a rental car could burn a hole in your next vacation or business trip.  Thrifty and Dollar have joined the growing list of car rental companies which will fine you up to $250 if you or one of your passengers smokes inside one of their rented vehicles. The fee covers what the Dollar Thrifty Automotive Gr...Read more

The Smithsonian wants your help deciding which two historic, rare American made vehicles to put on display in Washington, D. C.  The national museum has a collection of 73 vintage vehicles, but only 14 are on display; the other 60 are in storage. For the first time in history, the National Museum of American Hist...Read more

  Even if Santa didn’t bring you a Ferrari 458 Italia, a Ferrari Scuderia or a Ferrari F430 for Christmas, you can still own one for five hours of driving around the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.  Okay, you don’t own them.  It’s more like renting them for a total of 40 laps – 15 laps...Read more

The Mercedes-Benz Museum is one of the most-visited museums in Germany.  It’s an architecturally superb modern building in Stuttgart, Daimler’s headquarters city, filled with more than 100 years of automotive history.    Thanks to modern technology, you can put all of it in your hand, via a ...Read more

Driving 80 mph on a wide, multi-lane interstate is one thing.  Doing it on an iced track that drops the equivalent of a 40-story building in less than a mile  – now that is something else entirely. My experience was in “The Comet,” one of the bobsleds (or bobsleighs) that take paying custom...Read more

Rudolph just called in sick, and the rest of the reindeer team refuses to travel without his bright head light leading the way.  Santa needs a reliable way to deliver all those toys to the little kids as well as the big electronic toys to the big kids.  Santa needs wheels.  What should Santa drive? ...Read more

Ever since 1981, each and every Chevy Corvette has been produced at the assembly line in Bowling Green, Kentucky, which also is one of the few automotive factories in the United States that offers public tours.  Although many visitors are Corvette buyers who are watching their own new vehicle getting built, most a...Read more

One of the great problems about driving in a foreign country is understanding the road signs.  A new app solves that problem.  Unfortunately, it could be dangerous to use.  The TGPhoto app from LinguaSys works this way -- you photograph the foreign road sign with your mobile phone, which then translates ...Read more

If you’ve ever squinted while driving at night to be sure you are seeing what you think you are seeing ahead, then you’ll appreciate the new spotlight function on 2011 Mercedes-Benz headlights.  The ability to detect pedestrians on the road and highlight them on the display in the instrument cluster ha...Read more

We’ve all sneaked peaks at roadside billboards while we are driving.  They tell us where to eat, what shows are on stage in the city we’re heading to, what radio or TV station to listen to or watch, and lots more, of course.  The fanciest billboards are computerized, and wink and blink at us like ...Read more