Archive for July, 2022
Consumer Guide Car Stuff Podcast
Whether you drive a car, need a car, or just occasionally bum a ride with friends, you’ve come to the right place. Join the editors of Consumer Guide Automotive as they break down everything that’s going on in the auto world. New-car reviews, shopping tips, driving green, electric cars, classic cars, and plenty of great guests. This is the Consumer Guide Car Stuff Podcast.
Great Wall Futurist
This is an installment in a series of posts looking back on show cars that we feel deserved a little more attention than they got. If you have a suggestion for a Forgotten Concept topic, please shoot us a line or leave a comment below.
Test Drive: 2022 Honda Civic Si
2022 Honda Civic Si in Blazing Orange Pearl (a $395 option)
2022 Honda Civic Si
Class: Compact Car
Miles driven: 499
Fuel used: 17.1 gallons
Classic Car Ads: Luxury Cars of 1985
1985 Chrysler Town & Country
For the most part, we identify luxury vehicles not by price, but by make and model. For example, an Oldsmobile 88, to most people, was not a luxury car. But an Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight… we can pretty much agree that the senior Olds was a luxury ride.
Test Drive: 2022 BMW i4 M50
2022 BMW i4 M50 in Brooklyn Grey Metallic (a $550 option)
2022 BMW i4 M50
Class: Electric Vehicle
Miles driven: 276
Battery capacity: 80.7 kWh
Consumer Guide Car Stuff Podcast
Whether you drive a car, need a car, or just occasionally bum a ride with friends, you’ve come to the right place. Join the editors of Consumer Guide Automotive as they break down everything that’s going on in the auto world. New-car reviews, shopping tips, driving green, electric cars, classic cars, and plenty of great guests. This is the Consumer Guide Car Stuff Podcast.
Songsan Motors SS Dolphin
A pair of hard-working Las Vegas showgirls are friends, co-workers, and roommates, and each has custody of a much younger sibling. That’s the premise of a short-lived Garry Marshall-produced TV show called “Who’s Watching the Kids.” And in predictable sitcom fashion, often no one is watching the kids—and hilarity ensues.
2022 Toyota Camry TRD in Cavalry Blue with Midnight Black Metallic roof (a $500 option)
2022 Toyota Camry TRD
Class: Midsize Car
Miles driven: 894
Fuel used: 35.2 gallons
Test Drive: 2023 Toyota bZ4X XLE
2023 Toyota bZ4X XLE in “Heavy Metal” silver paint (a $425 option)
2023 Toyota bZ4X XLE AWD
Class: Electric Vehicle
Miles driven: 280
Battery capacity: 72.8 kWh
Classic Car Ads: Electric Cars
General Motors EV1
A fun fact shared often in the automotive media is that electric cars fairly handily outsold gasoline-powered vehicles in the earliest days of the automobile era. Around the turn of the century, 40 percent of American automobiles were powered by steam, 38 percent by electricity, and just 22 percent by gasoline. (Granted, we’re only talking about a few thousand vehicles here, since the entire industry was in its infancy.)
