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King of the ‘Green’ Road find eco-friendly tires for your car. Going green is big these days and it should be. Being environmentally friendly is important. Make your car as green as it can be with these interesting tips from yokohamatire.com

(ARA) – These days, consumers are more aware of the need to protect our fragile planet. They buy products that are environmentally friendly: solar-powered wrist watches, reusable coffee sleeves, designer sunglasses made with renewable materials and even an “eco” beer. Read the rest of this entry »

:: A person that’s enthused, determined, and prepared to embrace life’s trials is a person we all strive to be. If you’re like me and endeavor to be like that person then your first step is to always stay inspired. Once you choose to be an inspired individual you will see that you’ll become captivated by the lifestyle and any other way of living will seem dull and unworthy of your time. Taking the first step towards an inspired life is the most difficult part of the process, but after you take it you will never look back. Life is too short to go through it uninspired… an inspired individual is someone who never backs away from a challenge…he/she is a person who wakes up everyday more inspired than the next… Read the rest of this entry »

In yesterdays post , we offered a bounty for anyone to open up both the CTS (bottom) and Denso (top) Toyota gas pedal assemblies. No one took us up, and no one anywhere else has done it, so we took it upon ourselves . So here they are, both e-pedal assemblies taken apart and examined, in our quest to understand if and what the significant differences are, and how Toyota’s possible “shim” fix would work.A  On initial observation, it appears that the CTS is actually a more solidly engineered unit, in that the pedal pivots on a traditional and solid steel axle whose bearings are brass sleeves. The Denso: its whole pivot and bearing surfaces are flimsy-feeling plastic. But that can be deceptive, and we’re not qualified to judge properly if it is indeed inferior or superior. Read the rest of this entry »

As the expected delivery date nears for the lighter, more powerful

, Lamborghini loyalists get this good news: the Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera. Like the prancing-horse crowd, the bucking-bull boys have corralled a few more horsepower and shed some unnecessary weight to create this special edition.

Starting with the already exhilarating Gallardo coupe, Lamborghini chucks the rear diffuser, the underbody tray, the rearview-mirror housings, the interior door panels, the central tunnel, and the engine cover and replaces them all with carbon-fiber copies of the old panels for a reduction of 154 pounds, bringing the weight down into the 3370-pound neighborhood.

Then, compounding this weight-loss program, the intake and exhaust systems are retuned, and the ECU is reprogrammed to stir up 10 more horsepower, for a total of 523. Read the rest of this entry »