The Blog for Auto Bloggers

• Help KMRL raise funds for wounded veterans!

  I know I've been out of the loop for a long time guys. And I hate to put up a shameless plug here, but this isn't for me, it's for wounded veterans. My friends at KMRL MojoRadioLive [www.mojoradiolive.com] are taking part in Blogothon 2007' [...]
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  Posted: July 25, 2007, 9:06am EDT
  

• Highlights from SEMA Show 2006.

  By Brian Vermette, RaceDriven.com.
  
  Wow, for a lot of car enthusiants and beyond, this week marks one of the biggest shows for the aftermarket, the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. I am always amazed with just what some of these manufacturers, designers, and builders can come up with [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2006, 4:38pm EST
  

• Shifting Gears: Auto Manufacturers Warranties & Commerical Breakdown of Chevy 400

  By Brian from Racedriven.com
  
  Shifting Gears for a monent, if you are a Motorsports and Car Enthusiant like I am, than both of these articles will caught your eye in one way or another.
  
  On CarsCarsCars blog, they have compiled a list of the Current Warranties [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2006, 12:44pm EDT
  

• Question: What is the future of this blog

  Hay everyone, this is Brian from racedriven.com, just wanted to know what is the future of this blog (The Blog for Autoblogger), What are we doing? [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2006, 4:15pm EDT
  

• Read fine print on Chrysler's 30-day guarantee...fees

  This is straight from Cars!Cars!Cars! blog on Chrysler's 30-day guarantee...this is a must read.
  
  

  We're glad someone took the time to look into this 30-day guarantee that Chrysler is touting: The Detroit News reports: Chrysler's '30-day, money back guarantee: What's the catch.

  Check out this arithmetic:' [...]

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  Posted: July 14, 2006, 3:39pm EDT
  

• Dave Finds a New Home

  
  I wanted to thank a lot of you guys who expressed well wishes after the downfall of MPH. It was nice to know the car blogging community found the magazine so interesting, even if the website never really lived up to its potential. We were [...]
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  Posted: June 29, 2006, 2:03pm EDT
  

• Should all major American racing series make the transition to alternative fuels?

  By Brian from Racedriven.com
  
  I have been thinking about this question for a month or so now since a WindTunnel on SPEED question of the week caught my interest, it was put "Should all major American racing series make the transition to ethanol?", because of the IRL Indy [...]
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  Posted: June 24, 2006, 11:07pm EDT
  

• Another SPLOG??

  OK, I may be a little late on this one, but it appears there is another SPLOG car.blogdig.net
  
  Has anyone seen this? Is this another SPLOG like Automobilist and OST Auto?
  
  Joe
  
  Update; Response from site owner ;
  "Listen this site is really just my girl friends" [...]
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  Posted: May 22, 2006, 1:23pm EDT
  

• Quickblog by Godaddy.com?

  Has anyone come across a quickblog or is currently using either the free ad-supported quickblog or paid quickblog by godaddy.com.
  
  All of my domain names are registered at godaddy and I see if you register, transfer or renew, you get an free, ad-supported quickblog (giant ad-banner across the top) [...]
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  Posted: May 08, 2006, 3:54pm EDT
  

• Two Blogging Questions: New Blog Host and Links

  By Brian from Racedriven
  
  Two Questions about Blogging:
  
  1. I am looking to start a second blog or mirror my current blog and I want to use anyother free blog host, I have tried Wordpress.com (At that time, not must custom HTML work could be done) and [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2006, 3:36pm EDT
  

• A manufacturer pulling out of NASCAR? creating a lot of buzz thoughtout..

  By Brian from Racedriven
  
  This article "Thinking The Unthinkable." about one of the big 3 manufacturers pulling out of NASCAR has created a huge buzz and has many interested, rightnow its just a rumor to most. The first two paragraphys of the article is below:
  
  

  The Autoextremist.com [...]

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  Posted: April 22, 2006, 8:19pm EDT
  

• New York Auto Show -- Part One

  by Brian from Racedriven
  
  For the past couple of days or so, I have been reading up on the latest autoshow debuts on Autoblog, Leftlane News and other blogs, plus rsportscars.com and automotive websites, the New York Auto Show is a big autoshow for most automakers with NY [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2006, 12:06am EDT
  

• Who Is Media?

  So I finally got the approval for media credentials for the 2006 Auto Show. I spoke with some dude from Sams Crispe Communications and he clearly didn't feel blogs are a form a "real" media. Even though I'm in my fourth year of publication ('03 - '06), I'm still not' [...]
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  Posted: April 05, 2006, 2:02pm EDT
  

• Rally Racing at X Games

  Am I alone in thinking THIS is huge huge news for the future of Rally in the US? [...]
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  Posted: March 28, 2006, 8:37am EST
  

• Is shameless self promotion allowed?

  MyFordDreams2
  Non-FordDreams
  AlternativeFuelUniverse
  MyFordDreams

  As you may now, I was having major problems with Blogger, originally I suspected it was my blog, then I learned from otheres they were having problems on Blogger also. I considered changing blog services or even just stopping. But in the end, [...]

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  Posted: March 25, 2006, 9:43pm EST
  

• Looking for a free comment service for my new weblog

  Hay everyone, I am building a new weblog on my server from scratch with no software:
  
  I am looking for a free comment service for it, does anyone have any suggestions?
  Also, do I really need RSS feed and does anyone know how to install that or what tools [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2006, 8:08pm EST
  

• Need a Widget Maker

  Hey guys. I've designed a widget for mph but need someone to code it up.
  Anyone design these?' [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2006, 12:55pm EST
  

• HELP! Major problems with Blogger

  I've been having major problems with Blogger this week. It's taking forever to get even a simple post up and loading pictures is a nightmare. I had assumed it was limited to my main blog www.myforddreams.blogspot.com so I tried starting a new one www.myforddreams2.blogspot.com and see if I [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2006, 1:48pm EST
  

• ALMS has historical event at 12 Hours of Sebring

  
  (Quote and photo from ALMS website) "The new prototype is the first diesel car in the world to win a major sports car race."
  
  The broadcast crew and the American LeMans Series calls yesterdays 12 hours of Sebring a historical event with the [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2006, 1:09pm EST
  

• TypeBuzz ??

  I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about TypeBuzz. I received an email from them asking me to be a contributor towards their "Content Hub" and I think this is earily similar to a Splog. The difference being they offer to sign up bloggers for a 25% share of proffits. [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2006, 3:04pm EST
  

• What makes a blog?

  Hey guys. One of the most popular new automotive blogs (I won’t mention the name or link) runs posts with no links to their referring article. Meaning they post about a news story they read on another site, like Automotive News, yet run no link to the actual article. They [...]
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  Posted: March 06, 2006, 10:18am EST
  

• Speedweeks at Daytona Part II The Daytona 500 and Aftermath

  I have been waiting a couple of days or so for the Daytona 500 aftermath, you know the penities, the talk and for me, a chance to think about what just happened and he it is:
  
  What happened? Basicly it was the Daytona 500 with its hype and some [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2006, 1:33pm EST
  

• One more tactic agains Splogs like OstAuto and TheAutoMobilist

  OK, I know, you're probably getting tired of this, but for those of us smaller bloggers, here is another option to fight Splogs like OstAuto and TheAutomobilist, contact Google.
  
  Yep, it's as simple as that, contact google online, and complain about their use of your material. In the AdSense [...]
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  Posted: February 21, 2006, 2:16pm EST
  

• Here's something I found that may help Brian and I and possibly others with Splog problems.

  This site; [www.splogreporter.com] is a place to report Splogs like theautomobilist and ostauto. I'm also trying to figure out how to copyright my material. If anyone knows how, please email me or leave a comment here.
  
  Thanks,
  Joe' [...]
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  Posted: February 19, 2006, 5:35pm EST
  

• The Automobilist breaks silence

  Dave and other contributors to this blog, I wanted to share with you an email I recieved from Andy the owner of the Automobilist site;
  
  Please remove this entry --
  [autobloggers.blogspot.com]
  from your collective blog.
  Otherwise, you will be contacted by my lawyer and sued for libel.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: February 17, 2006, 8:53am EST