MONTHLY CRUISE-INS THIRD FRIDAY through September, AMVETS Post 1789, 715 Market St., Brookville. Door prizes, music, food, beverages, 50/50 drawing. Post open to all for the event. No coolers. Ask about joining this all-encompassing veterans’ organization. Norm, 937-231-4641 AARP SMART DRIVER SAFETY COURSE This four-hour course helps keep drivers updated, safe, confident and mobile. It includes strategies that can reduce the likelihood of a crash and to understand the links between driver,… Source link

GETTY It has been revealed that the UK is the second most congested country in the world TomTom (TOM2) today released the results of the TomTom Traffic Index 2016, the annual report detailing the cities around the world with the most traffic congestion.  The UK’s traffic congestion level has increased by 5 per cent since last year, with drivers now spending an average extra 5 days a year in congestion.  The UK was home to 11 cities in the top 100 ranking including; Belfast, Edinburgh,… Source link

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Proxibid, the world’s most trusted way to connect buyers and sellers of highly valued items like collector cars, and Hemmings, the leading resource for collector car enthusiasts, today announced a strategic partnership that brings Proxibid’s transactional capabilities to Hemmings.com, and exposes dealers to the industry’s most robust collector car network. Now, sellers using Hemmings listing services can… Source link

Racers competing in the Hemming’s Motor News Great Race, a cross-country road rally of antique vehicles took a lunch break at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum Sunday, June 26, 2016 then headed to the finish line in downtown Moline, Illinois. The Great Race is a time/speed/endurance road-rally for vintage vehicles, manufactured at least forty-five years ago. The 2016 event was run over nine days, starting in San Rafael, California on June 18th and ending on June 26th in… Source link

Click here to read all the latest new car reviews from Drive. Have height, won’t go off-road. Australians purchased record numbers of SUVs or Sports Utility Vehicles in 2015, as consumers continued the move away from the traditional passenger car. Official figures released on Wednesday revealed an increasing shift in the car buying habits of Australian consumers, as the market recorded 1,155,408 new vehicle sales in 2015 – more than any other time in history. A 15.9 per cent spike in… Source link

In 1945, when Ernie Hemmings took over the auto parts business his father had founded in Quincy, Ill., Model T and Model A Fords were still too contemporary to be called classics. But popular interest in collecting and restoring vintage cars became so great in the next few years that in 1954 he transformed his mimeographed mail-order catalog into Hemmings Motor News, which became a bible for car collectors. As thick as a phone book, the magazine, now owned by American City Business Journals… Source link

Small cars topped the list of the nation’s best sellers in 2014, again overruling the once dominant large car, which is increasingly falling out of favour. Official figures to be released by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries on Tuesday will list the Toyota Corolla and Mazda3 as the two top-sellers for 2014, according to industry figures obtained by Drive. Thanks in part to a solid finish from both small cars, the local market ended the year strong with 1,113,224 sales, which is… Source link

An exclusive Drive test has shown 93 per cent of new car speedometers are inaccurate.  A five-month study of 60 new vehicles ranging in price from $14,490 to $441,300 showed most speedos measured over the posted limit by an average of 5km/h at 100km/h – well within the Australian Design Rule parameters. The difference in readings – as much as 6 per cent at 100km/h – can partially explain the difference in driving speeds on some freeways.  It’s particularly noticeable on heavily policed… Source link

See more GTA Spano pics We’re sorry. We shouldn’t be cynical when a start-up company releases a bunch of shiny pictures of an identikit supercar promising Veyron-beating performance at a tenth of the price. Like this, the happily named Spano from Spanish racing outfit GTA Motor. We want to believe their claims that it’ll do 0-60mph in under three seconds and top out at 210mph, courtesy of an all-new V10 putting 780bhp and 679lb ft of torque to the rear wheels through a seven-speed… Source link