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These Self-Smacking Wipers Knock Ice Off Your Windshield
Great clouds almighty: is winter over yet? Snow, sleet, freezing rain, hail—come on now! It’s been a season of much precipitation and through it Raleigh has received a hard lesson: we’re not quite as equipped for winter as we thought we were. As we drove through neighborhoods frozen by winter weather, however, we did notice […]
Oldest VW Beetle Shows Masterful Design
Volkswagen is doing a cool partnership with America’s Car Museum this spring, and since we’re not in Tacoma, Washington to see the vintage VW’s ourselves, we thought that we would highlight a few of the coolest models here on our blog. First up is this all-black 1943 KdF-Wagen, also known as the earliest version of […]
Dancing on a Frozen Lake: The 2015 Golf R
Winter Storm PAX aside, most of us prefer dry, warm roads with all-season tires. That’s how driving conditions are most of the time in North Carolina, and it’s certainly much easier to confidently drive in conditions that your tires are equipped to handle. But what if you get a kick out of winter conditions? What […]
The Touareg Will See Your Snow and Raise You an Icestorm
Something that every American wonders at some point in his or her life is, would I have made a good pioneer? Of course, very few of us would make it after three full days without hot showers, cell phone service or deodorant, but that doesn’t mean we can’t test ourselves, right? That’s what camping is […]