Are you ready for the many woes of winter driving? Being prepared is the best way to prevent an embarrassing breakdown on the side of the highway. Not to mention that staying inside of a broken down car in the middle of a blizzard isn’t fun either. Flickr image by hradcanska Here are just a few helpful tips that will ensure you’ll have a functioning vehicle this winter. Test the antifreeze: The antifreeze in your car helps keep your car cool and prevent the engine from overheating. On the flip side the coolant could freeze, making it nearly impossible to start cold. Keeping your car plugged in at night helps, but testing your coolant is more important. Have a technician test the density of the coolant to ensure it doesn’t... [Read more]

It’s hard these days to pick a car that will suit your lifestyle and be easy on the budget and be able to function doing everything you need to do with it. I thought that I would be able to get by with just a mini-van. The mini-van is great because it can carry a maximum 7 people including the driver with room to spare for luggage. You can remove the seats and sometimes have 8′X4′ of available space for cargo or work related stuff. When it come to being all purpose the mini-van is a hard one to beat. The problem though is that you take into consideration the weight of the stuff you are trying to carry around. If you needed something bigger SUV are good but SUV drivers don’t usually like to haul equipment onto their folded... [Read more]

I hate starting my day in a cold car. But I also hate having to warm up the car for like 10 minutes wasting gas before taking off too. There needs to be an easier way to preheat your car in the winter. Plugging your car in at night helps as it keeps the battery and coolant at a warmer temperature, thus reducing warm up times, but that doesn’t help in defrosting the windows. Winter Cars Normally I would just spray some windshield washer fluid on to help get the frost off but that only works if you have the antifreeze fluid (a necessity for Canada in my opinion). So how hard would it be to create remote car starter/winter defroster? I mean it’s cool that they have these remote car starters so that when you get into your car it’s... [Read more]

One of the biggest, baddest, most powerful pickup trucks on the market today is the all new 2010 Dodge Ram 3500. Now if you need raw HEMI power and don’t care or have concern for fuel consumption than this is the truck for you. You’ll never have to worry if your load is too big for this one. It’ll tow your house if you need to. 2010 Dodge Ram 3500 The new Dodge Ram 3500 comes with the industry’s highly coveted 5.7L HEMI V8 that won the “10 Top Engines” from Ward’s AutoWorld. The “hemispherical” firing chamber delivers more power than one that is typically slanted or miss-shapened. The Hemi takes up more engine space which is why engineers don’t usually make engines that way. However,... [Read more]

Ford loves to make customized versions of their already great cars. The “Shelby” Mustang and Harley Davidson F-150 are other great examples. Unlike the Shelby or the Harley, the all-new 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor was designed from the bottom up to be the ultimate off-roading pickup. 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor I came across the Raptor when checking out the new line of F-150 trucks. Ford already has the best reputation in the full-size pickup business, topping all the charts against all of the competition. What makes Ford different for the past few years (and perhaps the main reason they didn’t have to beg for a bailout) is that they have been delivering Ford Tough trucks. The Raptor is no exception as it comes with a powerful... [Read more]