In today’s era of high oil and gas prices, you often hear politicians talking about the tapping into the SPR, or the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. At some point, you might be asking the same question yourself, as your fill-ups at the gas station are costing you $50, $75, even $100 depending on what kind [...]
Ahh, the smell of burning rubber. Don’t you just love going into a tire shop and getting new tires? No? Me neither. Especially now that I have learned that a lot of the tires in those shops could be up to 12 years old already and still being sold as new. [...]
If you hold a GM Rewards credit card and you were not interested in using your rewards towards any of the GM cars, you can now use it towards Saturn cars as well. Although Saturn has been part of the GM family since the beginning, I guess they were never in the rewards program. [...]
In preparation of our move to the mountains, we went ahead and bought a brand new car last night – a Subaru Forester. We wanted something that gets decent gas mileage, has AWD, and scored incredibly well in safety tests and this car matched all three requirements. Add to that fact that we [...]
Have you ever gone to trade in a car you “own” only to find that you owe more on it than anyone will give you for it? I am sure a lot of people have; I have too. I once had a Volvo that while I had gotten a great deal on it at [...]
And Toyota won every single category. Almost.
I look forward to this list each and every year just to see who is going to be make it. I watched a news segment on TV the other night that was discussing how the quality of American cars needs to really catch up with Japanese cars [...]
In something not related to personal finance blogging at all, I just read this article on the new Knight Rider TV show returning to NBC next year…same name, different car and cast. (thankfully) Here is the new KITT car:
I am feeling ancient right about now, as this used to be one of my favorite [...]
Since no politician in their right mind would consider raising gas taxes right now (although I wish they would), they are trying to come up with alternatives to make sure they increase the taxes that they are collecting. And one way they have come up with is to start charging drivers per mile driven and [...]
Now that the holiday season is upon us, if you happen to watch any television at all you will see ads from many auto companies telling you that you should give someone a car as a gift. Lexus thinks it’s the only way to get to a woman’s heart – didn’t you know that? [...]
Being a member of the M-Network has it’s perks – for instance, this week we are all writing about our thoughts about cars and money. You can check out the entire M-Network to see their posts on this subject, as when this post goes live, I will be in Mexico and won’t be able [...]
In this week’s edition of Money Mistake Monday, I am going to talk about car leases. Back in my freewheeling days, I leased cars. Audi’s, to be exact. After driving a Honda Civic into the ground, I decided I deserved better so I leased a brand new Audi A4…man that was a nice car. [...]
Luckily that’s not me…yet. Prices are going to rise sharply sometime soon everywhere because the price at our pumps has not truly reflected the price of crude oil. Right now, we are paying $3.49 per gallon, which is the second highest I have seen it here in Southern California since I moved here [...]
If this isn’t enough to make me buy a Toyota, I don’t know what is. I watched it 3 times this morning, and laughed harder each time:
Nice job Toyota…I think I will go out and pick up a RAV4 today.
I have been giving this some thought lately as our Mini Cooper has had to have 3 run-flat tires replaced in the past 20 months. Why? Well, the first one was because I did not know you could actually patch run-flats…the dealer said no and proceeded to put a new on on [...]
