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Erik Bjornstad: Sep 22 2014
It’s well established that buying a new car does not make financial sense. You spend $25,000 on the car and then see its value drop 25% as soon as you get behind the wheel. Savvy consumers don’t buy new cars – they buy not-that-old used cars and let...
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Erik Bjornstad: Sep 11 2014
For many of us, cars are like a "black box" - we know that they work but we don't know how they work. That means we don't know whether to be...
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Erik Bjornstad: Sep 9 2014
Okay, you really can't make your car last forever. But more and more people are moving away from the cycle of buying or leasing new vehicles every...
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Erik Bjornstad: Sep 4 2014
It's now four or five years on from the widespread infiltration of E10 into our fuel supply across the country. Now we're at the point where we're...
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Erik Bjornstad: Aug 19 2014
Cars are so complicated that a simple rattling noise could turn out to be nothing or it could be the start of a four-figure repair job. We always say...
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Erik Bjornstad: Jul 29 2014
We're changing things up a little bit here. We like to talk about fuels and oils and engines, but we also know people like to keep their cars looking...
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Erik Bjornstad: Jul 24 2014
The name Henry Ford stands among the giants of the giants in American industrial history, alongside figures like Getty, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt.
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Erik Bjornstad: Jul 23 2014
The whole point of blending ethanol into gasoline across the nation was to improve the environment by making gasoline burn cleaner. Cleaner burning...
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Erik Bjornstad: Jul 21 2014
We’ve all been subject to the whims of unstable gas prices for years. They go up, down, and back up, with no discernible reasons why. Dissatisfaction...
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Erik Bjornstad: Jul 18 2014
Americans have many reasons for wanting to buy a car that is “green.” For some, buying a hybrid vehicle satisfies that goal - a car that runs on...
