I just had another cool idea for luxury vehicles. The car would come with a set of special insulated beverage cups with specially designed for the cup holder, where the base of the cup would naturally orient the cup the same direction every time (essentially, sippy side toward the back of the vehicle). The cup holder would be mechanized and linked ( Read more... )

Over the weekend I finally unloaded my voice recorder with my various notes from while I am driving hither and yon. Of them, there are a couple ideas I'd like to possibly develop and maybe attempt to market. Due to these aspirations, this blog will be somewhat vague on the first one, which is a spiffy headlight visor to help with night driving on ( Read more... )

Ordered some new winter tires today so I'll be able to cruise around with confidence as the rain and snow comes down. :)

Yokohama Ice Guard IG20

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This weekend I'll be racing again. In my '97 Tercel. Hehehe.

The Trinity Touring Club chapter of the Autocross has their first points race this Sunday. I got some new summer tires in honor of the occasion and will be cleaning my engine compartment this evening or tomorrow. Since I'm just driving an "econobox" stock car, I don't expect to have ( Read more... )

GRRR!! I just want an AWD (all-wheel-drive) hybrid! There are AWD vehicles and there are hybrid vehicles but no one seems to do both at the same time! AHHH! WTF?! (Well, okay, the only ones I can find are made by Lexus and cost $$$ - like starting at 40,000 and going way up from there ( Read more... )

I have decided to hang on to my Tercel for the summer at least. It is still running great and gets good mileage, so there's no reason to replace it right when summer is coming up. Consequently, I have once again been looking at ways to enhance it. Following are some cosmetics that I am considering to increase its visual appeal. I'll have to take ( Read more... )