Fast & Furious is opening this week–woohoo, you heard it here first!–and to help whip moviegoers into a car-crazy frenzy, Screen Junkies has put together this encyclopedic post covering (in detail) what they consider to be the top 40 movie cars of all time. Expect the usual suspects: Christine, Bullitt’s Mustang, and Doc Brown’s DeLorean [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Massive Movie-Car Countdown on Screen Junkies
March 31st, 2009
2009 Cobra Jet Mustang on eBay
March 31st, 2009
Well that didn’t take long. 2009 Cobra Jet Mustang number 26 is up for sale on eBay for a starting bid of $100,000. The car is being sold by an Ohio exotic car dealer and we’re keenly interested to see where this auction ends up. Hopefully it goes to someone who will actually race it [...]
Today’s News From the Cars.com Family
March 31st, 2009
One of our readers wants to know what the difference is between the Lexus IS 250 and the IS 350. Ask.cars.com explains. Then, PickupTrucks.com outlines the new sales-tax deduction car buyers can get when they buy a new truck. Finally, MotherProof.com reports on a study that confirms what men have always taken for granted: Women [...]
Cars.com Podcast No. 12: 2010 Toyota Prius
March 31st, 2009
This week’s podcast tackles the 2010 Toyota Prius. The editors discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the car, especially pitted against the Honda Insight and Ford Fusion Hybrid. The four then discuss compact cars that have come into the Cars.com fleet lately, including the Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris and Nissan Versa. You can download the [...]
Sales Tax on New Autos Officially Deductible
March 31st, 2009
During his press conference on the auto industry, President Barack Obama announced that the state and local sales and excise taxes on new-vehicle purchases would be tax deductible for 2009. That same day, the Internal Revenue Service made the tax deduction official. Here are the details: The sales tax for any new car, truck, motor [...]
John G. Kennelly – Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
March 31st, 2009
John G. Kennelly – Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. Vice President – Tax, Accounting Services and Customs, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. Update preferences img src=”http://expresslane.toyota.com/iop.gif?s=100003s24tuji447qs8r=simplepiei=rssin%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fpressroom.toyota.com%2Fpr%2Ftms%2FTYT2006042053386.aspx” width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″/
Sweet Valve Cover Treatment
March 31st, 2009
Juan has a ton of photos of his Sentra SE-R parked in front of grafitti all over Miami–and that alone makes his ride page worth checking out. But the real gem of the page, I thought, was this shot his finished valve cover, done up with a Rising Sun in zombie colors. Nice work!
Would You Buy a Saab Convertible From a Pick-n-Pull?
March 31st, 2009
Is it a faux pas to photograph a convertible with the windows rolled up? Is that yellow stuff all over the interior pollen? And where is the shift knob? 1991 Saab Turbo convertible on Craigslist
California Faces Gas Station Headache
March 31st, 2009
More than 60% of California’s 11,000 gas stations have missed the deadline for installing toxic-vapor scrubbers for their pumps and will be subject to fines and perhaps even closure. Lawmakers are scrambling to extend the deadline or pass legislation to alleviate the fines now that the state estimates that 2,000 of 3,900 service stations in [...]
What The? Nissan GT-R 18,000 mile service = $2,000??
March 31st, 2009
Two THOUSAND dollars? Splutter! I could buy a whole car for that. The culprit, as Edmunds Inside Line discovered when they took their GT-R test car in for its first service, turns out to be obscenely overpriced GT-R-specific ATF and differential fluid. How about $114 a quart for that tranny juice? And the beast takes [...]