Car Questions (Page 70)

Research shows Black Friday is a good day to shop for new and used cars and the 2011 season is not going to be different.

With cold and icy conditions arriving for fall, TireRack.com, America’s largest independent tire tester and consumer-direct source for tires, wheels and performance accessories, reminds drivers to pay attention to their car's tires.

In Britain, worn tires have been made a moving violation – 3 points per tire – meaning a set of tired old tires can cost you your license, not to mention a fine of nearly $4,000 per tire. Simply put, that’s how dangerous slick tires are to the other people on the road.

What did a Crosley, pictured, have that most American cars didn't have circa 1950?

What kind of animal would you expect to find on the hood of a Dodge?

What characteristic separated the Chevy Bel-Air from the more-expensive Impala most years?

What kind of car sometimes had Twin H Power do you think?

At one time it was a big, luxurious car. But after it merged with Studebaker in 1954, sales were so slow it was forced to become a Studebaker lookalike with only minor trim changes.

When this GM president was kicked out of office, he bought the Jefferey car plant in Wisconsin, changed the car to his name and merged with Kelvinator refrigerators.

This man was a chief engineer for General Motors. He quit, bought the Maxwell automobile works and changed the car name to his own.

Test your knowledge of Chevrolet Corvette history today with this 10-question quiz that we put together. The answers are given to you at the end of the list of questions.

What automobile offered tops as standard equipment in 1915?

Name the first U.S. carmaker to mass-produce cars with standardized parts.

Euro NCAP, officially known as European New Car Assessment Program, organizes crash-tests and provides motoring consumers with a realistic and independent assessment of the safety performance of some of the most popular cars sold in Europe. That now includes plug-in electric vehicles.

Mercedes-Benz got its name from founder Carl Benz. The word “Mercedes” comes from the 10-year-old daughter of a car buyer Emil Jellinek. He was an early customer of the Gottlieb Daimler and ordered a custom-built car that he named after his daughter, Mercedes.

Mitsubishi (三菱) has two parts to its name: mitsu means three and hishi (changing to bishi in the middle of the word) means diamond (the shape). Hence, the three diamond logo. (Note that "diamond" in this context refers only to the rhombus shape, not to the precious gem.)

Here is a primer on the American car companies and how they got their names. We start off with Ford Motor Co., which was named after founder Henry Ford, who is pictured.

Scuderi Group, LLC today released the results of an extensive vehicle computer study (the Study), which was funded by the Scuderi Group and conducted by an internationally recognized, independent research laboratory. The Study modeled various Scuderi Split-Cycle (SSC) engine designs in a vehicle computer model of a 2011 Nissan Sentra.

With OnStar FMV Vehicle Selector launching on OnStar.com and Facebook, interest in the retail mirror surges. So, the product is aligning first with Best Buy for retail installation Summer 2011. [Update: Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) stock is still trading below its 200 day moving average and opened a bit higher Wednesday at 30.44]

Connecting art and design students with college and careers, General Motors is using Creative Beginnings Month in May to avail design-sponsored events to promising art and design students and educators.

Just because a large auto company pays for CAD training for its on-site employees doesn’t mean the price is reasonable. They can write it off. Now ask anyone without a job, but looking to get trained for a new employment opportunity; their lack of cash flow simply cannot handle the costs to maintain skills.

As shade tree mechanics have known for years, installing used car parts can be a great way to save money, but only if done responsibly. Never install a used auto part that could compromise your safety.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced amended regulations that make it easier to convert cars and trucks to run on natural gas.

SAE International, the society dedicated to advancing mobility engineering worldwide, will offer relevant technological courses this month in Troy, Michigan near Detroit; and during next month’s SAE World Congress on Environment and Emissions.

Mag-Daddy promoted its Universal Magnetic Fastener on the floor of the Detroit Autorama 2011 as a first-ever automotive fastener system specifically designed for after-market replacements.

Bedwood and Parts, LLC featured a display at the Detroit Autorama 2011, but should have made greater fanfare over its RetroLiner™ wood bed liner system, the company's latest truly innovative product that delivers yesteryear’s classic touch for all light trucks.

The simple answer to why drivers sit in traffic jams so frequently is we all want to use the same piece of interstate at the same time causing the demand for space on the freeway to exceed the capacity. Given this, there are forces at work that can be explained by human nature and an analogy drawing upon particle motion.

Thanks to a unique plug-in product called CarCheckup, you now have access to all that on-board diagnostics (OBD) data that was once available only to professional mechanics, but with the added benefit of recording trip information.

Currently, the national news is reporting regular gasoline at $3.75 a gallon in California. Moammar Khadafy, who has been driven daffy by gargantuan oil wealth (and maybe all those “virgin” bodyguards), is a big question mark in the Middle East causing gas prices to become volatile.

The rising price of gas has resurrected a common miscreant from the oil embargo of the 1970s: gasoline thieves who drain gas tanks but the modern thieves are drilling holes in tanks to steal fuel.