Remember that dunk last year in the NBA All-Star Dunk Contest? Yes, the one with Blake Griffin jumping over a Kia Optima. That one! Say what you will about the quality of the Dunk Contest in the recent years, but that was a pretty good product placement for Kia. Because the above mentioned Blake Griffin [...]
What you see above is the all-new 2012 Honda CR-V Concept. With the exception of the wheels and blacked out headlights, this is the production model of the 2012 Honda CR-V. As you can imagine, when a car maker introduces an all-new generation of a current model, this new generation of CR-V is bigger, has [...]
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if brand new cars came in a box from the factory? As soon as you buy one, you would have to open it up, right? Apparently Toyota thought the same, so they enlisted Adam Frucci to unbox a brand new 2012 Toyota Yaris. Check out the [...]
If you are one of the millions of Americans who tuned in for the Monday Night Football on ESPN, you might have caught this little TV ad spot… or if you have missed it, here it is. Jennifer Lopez, JLo, is making a comeback. After her break up with Marc Anthony, the Fiat marketing/PR department [...]
“Should I lease or purchase?” This is one of the questions I get asked all the time and the answer is simple. If you tend to keep your cars less than 4 years and drive less than 20,000 miles per year, then you could be a perfect candidate for leasing! Most people don’t understand leases, [...]
The KarFarm Test Drive Team unanimously agreed that there were way too many buttons on the center console of the 2012 Acura TL. So this week’s contest is simple. How many buttons are on the center console of the 2012 Acura TL SH-AWD with Advance Package? $25 Starbucks or Peet’s Coffee Gift Card and there [...]
The super adorable, Kia Soul driving hamsters are back, again. And this time, they are ‘shuffing’. Kia is bringing back the hamsters to announce the arrival of the refreshed 2012 Kia Soul. This revision includes better engines (1.6-liter base engines now pump out 138HP – an increase of 16HP; 2.0-liter engines are producing a class [...]
Poor vanilla… the noun ‘vanilla’ takes on some negative connotations when it is used as an adjective. You hear this noun-adjective used quite a lot in our daily lives, ‘…plain as vanilla…’ or ‘…boring as vanilla…’, for example. But, is vanilla so bad? Vanilla is, by far, the best selling flavor ice cream, if I [...]
This past weekend, our friends at Lotus invited us to Pebble Beach to check out their newest concept car – the Lotus Evora GTE. The GTE is basically a street legal version of their Lotus Evora GTE (formerly GT2) race car. The street car will, however, have 420HP and will wear less carbon fiber than [...]
Ahh… The Pebble Beach, where Tiger Woods used to reign supreme. This year’s Concours d’Elegance was as busy as usual, proving that the rich people are not in recession… unlike the rest of us. Here are some images of the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance… FB-Album[10150346781191620] Related Posts:Beautiful Bugatti Type 57 Atalante Draws A [...]
The current Mazda lineup is getting a bit long in the tooth and to inject some fresh ‘Zoom-Zoom’, Mazda is readying an all-new crossover called CX-5. As the name might suggest, the CX-5 is smaller than the CX-9 and CX-7. The CX-5 will feature Mazda’s new ‘KODO – Soul of Motion’ design language and the [...]
I guess in our business, sometimes trying to be the first ones to break a story, you tend to jump the gun a little too early. A couple of ‘obssessed’ car blogs have reported that Toyota will not be offering the 2012 Toyota Rav4 EV (electric vehicle) in the US maket for general consumption. Yesterday, [...]
Do you have over 100k miles on your car? Congratulations… How about 200k? You’re in rare air… 300k??? Whoa… Well, try this on for size. Joe from Norway, Maine is rapidly approaching 1,000,000 miles on his 1990 Honda Accord. Say WHAT??? A normal person averages about 12-15k miles per year. Million Mile Joe averages about [...]
I know that I’m going to offend some die-hard Toyota Yaris fans, including our own Andy Lilienthal, but I’m just going to say it… the current generation Yaris is just not a very competitive vehicle. In pricing, styling, driving dynamics, practicality, fuel economy, road manners, you name it, the Yaris comes in at or near [...]
For those of you who didn’t know already, the Nissan Juke is a blast to drive. This funky styled subcompact crossover is equipped with a very strong and entertaining 1.6 liter turbocharged engine. The said fun-car, the Juke, is meant for the urban youth market. The Juke is, in fact, basically a much funner version [...]
Follow Us!