Two weeks ago a ball joint failed catastrophically in my car, taking out everything within a one foot radius of it.  I suspect it overheard my wife talking about having a few spare dollars.  It cost `only’ eight hundred dollars to remove it from the shop. A week ago, my wife heard some squea...

I joked recently about my car breaking.  You see, if my car somehow senses that I have a few disposable dollars, it will break, eating up every last disposable dollar.  Sometimes my wife’s car gets jealous when this happens so it breaks, costing even more. My wife will tell me that I should neve...

Apart from being one of the most amazing 3D animations I've seen in a while, this Formula 1 2009 video shows how the new KERS works, a kinetic-to-electric-energy system that allows for speed jumps.......

Filed under: In the Autoblog Garage, Trucks/Pickups, Ford Click above for high-res image gallery of the 2009 Ford F-150 Platinum 4x4 The Blue Oval delayed the introduction of its all-important 2009 Ford F-150 by two months late last summer. The company claimed it could save some cash by postponing t...

Firestone wanted to charge me $19.00 to replace the burned out bulb below. I did it myself. Luckily the brake light in the rear window is about the easiest bulb one can replace on my car. Just twist the socket and pull it out. No screws, covers, bolts, etc. Firestone......

Somewhere between birth and what is now the possible demise of the domestic automobile industry, "American" became a bad word....

Filed under: Wagons/Estates, Hatchbacks, BMW BMW's 1 Series is stuck between a rock and a hard place, neatly slotting in between BMW's perennial best-selling 3-series and the FWD wunderkind, MINI. Loaded-up Coopers pass the $30K mark with ease and the base 3-Series model starts in the same neighborh...

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- The go-go outlook that propelled Brazil onto the world stage in recent years has crashed into hard economic realities. The financial meltdown that began in the United States has pummeled the stock exchange, battered commodity prices, weakened the local currency and squeezed c......

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- The go-go outlook that propelled Brazil onto the world stage in recent years has crashed into hard economic realities. The financial meltdown that began in the United States has pummeled the stock exchange, battered commodity prices, weakened the local currency and squeezed c......

Getting rear-ended may never be your fault, but that doesn't mean it's not a pain in the ass to get a busted bumper fixed. One way to help avoid such situations is with a product like Sudden Stop, an......