Different than the “delivery fee”, the destination charge is the cost of shipping the car from factory to dealership.
It’s never included in the price, and you can’t negotiate out of paying it, it’ll just never happen.
Read it online at Autonet.
When you’re shopping, I’d recommend adding at least $1,200 CDN to the price, and then do your math based on that total.
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Read it online at Autonet.
For 50 years, women have been key players behind this iconic “guy’s car.”
Nice one ladies!
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Rat rod – a custom built luxury machine, with an exterior designed to look the opposite -ratty and worn down.
Read it online at Autonet.
Then, couple those 500 hp specs with the niche’s bare essentials styling, and the power-to-weight ratio of some of these cars is excellent. They’re also not easy to drive. In fact, the idea is that the harder it is to drive, the better the rat rod.
These are some of the aforementioned rat rods built by the crew of the show ‘Vegas Rat Rods‘, premiering April 17 on Discovery Canada.
And this is Twiggy, the female star of the show, whom I interviewed for this column, and great Canadian girl.
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It’s moving from 2 cycles of tests to 5.
Starts with 2015 models, onwards.
Read it online at Autonet.ca
Or read it counter-clockwise.
It’s good this is happening, because these laboratory, perfect-enviroment tests are unattainable for the average driver.
The air conditioning is switched off, as are all the features and aids, the car is kept as light as possible, and the professional driver is using a very fuel-conscious driving style, which requires deep focus and concentration, and a style I’m not convinced we always drive with.
This also means that in a dealership, a 2014 model could be beside an almost identical 2015, but with a big discrepancy in ratings, like this:
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A worldwide recognized pattern, but… its internet footprint is surprisingly small, merchandise bearing the pattern it is very tough to buy, there’s a cloudy origins story and little research done to clarify things.
Read it online at Autonet.
Guys I found a hole in the internet. Why does such a pervasive recognized pattern have such a small footprint?
Also ha that’s my scarf that got printed.
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