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Money Saving Tips for Hybrid and Non-Hybrid Owners

Whether you own a hybrid, are thinking of buying one, or don’t have any such plans, you can save some substantial coin (and help save the environment) by driving like a hybrid owner.

For a leisurely autumn drive, a morning commute, or a bread & butter trip from point A to point B, here are six ways you can use your hybrid – or lessons learned from hybrid driving styles – to your advantage:

5 Ways You Can Track the Fall Colour Change

Should we go or should we wait a few more days? Finding the perfect front-row seat for the majesty of the fall colour change is equal-parts location and timing. Finding the right location is largely a matter of preference (and sometimes a little word-of-mouth).

Finding the right time is now a simple matter of consulting the right web service. In Minnesota, the Department of Natural Resources even has a fall colour change app that brings the latest updates on fall colour to your mobile device.

9 “To-Do’s” Before You Drive This Winter

You’re driving down a single-lane highway alone at night: On to your windshield and under your tires, snow is blowing and swirling over the ice-patched road. Just before every turn and bend, you wonder: Am I safe?

It makes sense to dust the white stuff off your roof and windows each drive in the winter, and get in early for a seasonal maintenance package. But beyond a simple check-up, there are many more things you should do for your car as the unforgiving cold approaches.

7 Lifesaving Techniques You Learn In Defensive Driving Courses

On winter’s chilly, perilous roads, it’s important to have more than just the basics of safe driving. Advanced or defensive driving techniques – rather than simply reactionary driving – empower you to avoid danger by anticipating it.

Taking an accredited defensive driving course can help keep you safe, in spite of others’ unpreparedness. In some cases, doing so can also decrease your insurance premiums (in Alberta, taking such a course can even eliminate demerit points off your licence…no such luck yet in Ontario though.)

15 Ultimate Parking Jobs

If you think you’ve seen some of the worst driving in your neighbourhood, or even online, you haven’t seen anything yet…

Sit back and enjoy (or gasp in shock at) our picks for the worst of the worst of the worst in four eye-popping categories.

Buckle up!

Ultimate parking moxy

When you’re REALLY in a hurry…

As with all the other parking jobs in the videos in this post, DO NOT ATTEMPT!!! Unlike all the other clips in this post, the parking jobs in this first compilation reel are done by drivers who – legal-or-not – seem to have mastered driving…and then some…(Note: yes, the last one is totally fake…the rest are most certainly not.)

Green Tips For Winterizing Your Car

When snow, sleet, and Arctic air masses convince you to break down and winterize your vehicle (or vehicles), take a second and help the planet.

Keeping the environment in mind when winterizing your ride can also be kind to your wallet, as well as the Earth.

In the interest of going green when the landscape turns white, check out our handy tips from bumper to bumper…

The Top 10 Auto & Car Safety Developments of the Last Decade

From 1999 to 2009, the automobile world has seen great advances in the development of safety devices and components that are available to consumers. While previous generations wanted vehicles that were faster and sportier, current generations are much more concerned about safety – which has helped to reduce the number of automobile related fatalities and insurance claims in the latter part of the last century. A recent report generated by the “Insurance Institute for Highway Safety” indicates that three times as many vehicles made their list of “Top Safety Picks” than in 2007, indicating that automobile manufacturers are placing much more emphasis in keeping the consumer safe.

Liquid in Motion: Car Fluids Explained

Solar Powered Air Conditioning Can Reduce Fuel Costs by up to 20 per cent

Recently, it was leaked to the press that an environmentally friendly car manufacturer would be releasing one of their new vehicles with solar-powered air conditioning panels on the roof. It’s one of those ideas that makes you think, “Of course! That makes so much sense, why didn’t we think about that before?” When do we need air conditioning? When it’s hot. What make things hot? The sun. Ergo, using the sun to produce air conditioning for our vehicles is an absolutely brilliant idea.

Green Driving Tips: Ways to Be Environmentally Friendly With Your Car This Summer

In an effort to be more environmentally conscious, a lot of us are looking for ways to be a bit more green this summer. One of the greatest ways that this can be accomplished is to be aware of your ecological footprint when driving, and to make strides to reduce carbon emissions. This summer, when getting behind the wheel of your car, take the time to do a few of the following things: