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As gasoline nears $4.00 a gallon here in San Diego, you can bet people are finding new ways of improving their gas mileage. Even the rich kids who drive the big-ass SUVs and Pickups are feeling the pinch.

Aside from taking your right foot out of the fuel injector, one of the most important factors in getting better gas mileage is to maintain correct air pressure in your tires. Check it at least once a month. You can find the correct pressure printed on the side-wall of the tire, and often on the placard inside the driver's door. Proper tire pressure will not only save you money in gas, it will make your car handle better, and your chances of having a blow-out are less.

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It's getting close. I'm about 50 or 60 cents away from either another vehicle purchase or to stilling my own bio-diesel in the back yard. It's not just affecting my normal driving either. It's affecting my off road and ATV fun too.

According to a couple of sources including AAA and the chairman of Houston-based Dune Energy, Alan Gaines, predictions are being made that the price for a gallon of gasoline will cost as much as $9.00 to $10.00 a gallon in the next two years. We're already seeing major jumps at the pump now, and I don't think we're even switched over to the so called summer blend yet.

I've caved in and bought the wife another motorcycle to commute on, (yeah, yeah, a GSXR 600 is not really a commuter bike), and we're already saving about a hundred bucks a week now that the GMC is parked. If things keep going the way they're going, I may be increasing my current cylinder count at home from 54 to 58 in the form of a hybrid or another motorcycle for myself.

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For the first time in 75 years a company besides General Motors (GM) may be taking the lead in the world auto market. It's not that sales are down at GM, but sales are way up at Toyota, surpassing GM by some 88,000 sales. Asia and Europe markets are probably the main reason for Toyota's surge in sales.

GM said it posted record sales (+8%) in three of its four regions, but a 10 percent drop in North America pulled down the overall numbers. On a personal note, I absolutely love Toyota trucks. I currently drive a GMC 2500 HD DD 4x4 because the trailer I to tow is too big for the biggest Toyota. I really like the GMC, but if I'd have known diesel prices were going to go so far up I wouldn't have bought it.

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Florida Senate Assembly members have added an amendment to ban people from proclaiming that they've got a pair by displaying them publicly on the back of their trucks in the form of faux beef genitalia.

I haven't quite figured out why, I suppose the cows in Florida aren't as happy as they are here in California. They must have got a coalition together and petitioned to do something so these evil people will quit offending them. I'm glad we're not the only ones making a nanny-state fool of ourselves.

Way to go, Florida voters!

So if you're planning on taking a trip to the freedom loving state of Florida, do yourself a favor and tuck your pair up under your bumper so you don't get a $60.00 ticket.

Delahaye USA Provides Elegance Styling with Modern Drivability


There's a company in Long Valley, New Jersey that has taken restoration to a whole new level. Delahaye USA, a division of Appleton Productions, Inc, is the only company that specializes in recreating the most beautiful classic coachbuilt cars ever built with hand-crafted aluminum bodies, but with modern goodies.

Arguably some of the best looking cars were built in the thirty's, and Delahaya USA is taking advantage of some of the European cars built in that era.

Delahaye USA combines classic flowing design with contemporary functional excellence. Conveniences such as power windows, power convertible top, six-way driver's seat, power rumble seats, symphonic sound systems, cruise control, hidden GPS systems, automatic transmissions, air conditioning, power brakes, and power steering are just some of the standard equipment. Retractable windshields are even available on some models.

They're taking the old, beautiful cars of way back when, and making them drivable by today's standards.

http://www.delahayeusa.com/

Toyota: "We haven't had a sports car in a long while"

Toyota and Subaru have finally confirmed the joint production of a Rear Wheel Drive sports car during a news conference in Tokyo today. The scheduled start of production is slated for 2011. The new model will be sporting the well known Subaru Boxer Engine, likely turbo charged. It is an interesting twist that the long time familiar All Wheel Drive (AWD) Subaru will be moving to a Rear Wheel Drive (RWD).

Toyota needs to have another sports car to replace the now dead Celica, MR2 and Supra sports cars. We're probably all very familiar with Toyota's uncanny ability to produce dependent vehicles, and I'm hoping this joint venture will be a boost for both companies.

Both Subaru and Toyota will be selling their own models of the sports car separately.