Car Polish Survey
The US consumer survey magazine “Consumer Reports.org” has publsished a wide-ranging research document on car polishes. It makes intriguing reading and the main research results are re-produced below:-
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Why You Can't Beat The Price Rip Off
Over the past couple of months, we’ve undertaken the biggest car prices comparison survey ever published.
The clear and incontrovertible conclusion is that we pay far more for our new cars than can be justified.
Just How Safe Is Your New Car?
Most modern cars have safety features that weren’t even thought of when this writer was a child. Back then, most cars had safety belts front and back – although a few didn’t have any in the back seat – and most of those seatbelts had adjustment features similar to bra straps, although the posh new ones had those automatically adjustable ones that seized up if you tried to pull them on in a hurry or if you tried to put them on while going around a corner. You couldn’t find an airbag anywhere in any of the cars that I rode in as a child, or even in the ones that I learned to drive in, and I don’t think any of them had ABS brakes,
either.
Well, times have certainly changed and cars have more and more safety features: ABS brakes, pretensioned seatbelts, anti-submarining seat design, crumple zones, brake assistance, stability control and all the rest of it. A few marques have even turned the level of safety into a marketing edge: while some tout their superior speed and power over the competition, other manufacturers – most notably Saab and Volvo, with others like Renault, Citroën and Toyota catching on – push the safety of their vehicles as their most notable feature.
Plugging Into Electric Cars
One thing that often gets raised as a problem when the issue of all-electric cars is discussed is the matter of “refuelling”. It’s easy enough with hybrid cars such as the Toyota Prius and the hybrid Ford Focus – the battery that provides the force needed to get the wheels turning is recharged by the engine when it’s running on petrol. But what about all-electric cars? The battery is always doing its thing and the motion of the car won’t charge it up again (if only it did!).
We all know how petrol-powered cars get refuelled. We all know where our local gas stations are and many of them double as corner stores and takeaway food outlets. In small towns, the petrol station often serves not just as the mechanic’s headquarters but also the post office and the general store. But do these shops cater for electric cars? Your local petrol station probably doesn’t have a place to plug in one of these.
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