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Five tips for tinting your car’s windows (without regretting it tomorrow)

Five tips for tinting your car’s windows (without regretting it tomorrow)

Don't fall for any too-good-to-be-true scams. With a little research, you can get your windows tinted without regretting it tomorrow. Consider the following tips. [...more]

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Customizing your wheels

Customizing your wheels

Since the 1980’s, the demand for customized wheels has expanded exponentially. Whether you’re following a fad or you simply don’t like the look of your vehicle’s stock wheels, adding a little flair with customized rims, higher-end tires, or a little color variety is a step toward customizing your new car to become your dream ride. [...more]

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Health-monitoring, self-driving, rocket ship cars of the future

Health-monitoring, self-driving, rocket ship cars of the future

Vehicles currently on the market with features such as dual-DVD player dashboards and the FAA-approved flying car (2012’s Terrafugia Transition) may whet your palate for the future of car technologies, but you haven’t seen nothing yet. Cars of the future will monitor your heart rate, recognize street signs to take over the wheel if you’re drowsy, drive a pre-set route, and utilize wireless technology to drive themselves (with drivers behaving more like passive riders). [...more]

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Safe driving tips for the Fourth of July weekend

Safe driving tips for the Fourth of July weekend

The Fourth of July is a time for road trips, long weekends, and time spent with family and friends—no matter the distance you must drive to join the festivities. But when long distances mix with alcohol-impaired and/or sleep deprived drivers, danger is unavoidable. Help reduce car accident fatalities this July 4 with these safe driving tips for holiday weekends. [...more]

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Is your car smarter than you?

Is your car smarter than you?

If you’re like those of us in Florida who aren’t required to learn how to parallel park when getting our drivers licenses, street parking won’t be a problem for much longer. Many of today’s new cars can park themselves. While systems like Ford’s Active Park Assist and Lexus’s Advanced Parking Guidance System are making parking [...] [...more]

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Ditch the bulky earpiece. Bluetooth systems for your car

Ditch the bulky earpiece. Bluetooth systems for your car

I remember the first time I saw someone wearing a Bluetooth earpiece. It was a sweaty Florida afternoon. I was standing in line at my local coffee shop.  The 40-something man in the Versace suit seemingly mumbled to himself while rattling his car keys in his pocket. At the time, I couldn’t figure it out: [...] [...more]

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Congratulations to our Travel, Stay and Play winners!

Congratulations to our Travel, Stay and Play winners!

At AutoNation, we wanted to give put two lucky winners closer to their dream trip on the open road. In our Travel, Stay and Play promotion, we asked you to tell us where you would go, what landmarks you would see and what would be playing in your car stereo if you could plan your perfect road trip. From the Grand Canyon to Key West, the deep South to Colorado’s Red Rocks, your ideas ran the gamut of awesomeness when it comes to road trips. We wish we could send you all on your way! [...more]

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The top five innovative, technological dashboards available today

The top five innovative, technological dashboards available today

Driving in my 1997 Saturn SC1, with manual windows and door locks, a broken CD player, and no antennae—it is far from difficult to choose car models that make me envious due to their technologically-enhanced interiors. But specifically zoning in on dashboards, I noticed quite a trend in the last car magazine I casually flipped through—some [...] [...more]

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Flying cars are headed to garages near you

Flying cars are headed to garages near you

Move over, George Jetson. The elusive flying car that popular culture led us to believe we’d all be driving by the year 2000 might finally begin appearing in the sky and the garages of the very rich. With approval from the FAA, Massachusetts-based Terrafugia will begin deliveries of the first commercially available flying car later [...] [...more]

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The big carpool myth

The big carpool myth

You may have thought that carpooling, which has grown in popularity over the past few decades, got it start with the Earth Day movement. But you'd be wrong. Here's the real deal on how carpooling got started. [...more]

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