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#155 Noor Daoud: Drift Life – Breaking Global Barriers in Motorsports

Drift Racing Global Attraction. Drift racing originated in Japan in the mid ‘90’s and has taken a foothold across the globe, including the Middle East, as a popular sport competing for style, tire smoke, line and angle strategies, speed and showmanship. Think of traditional motorsports like NASCAR and NHRA similar to boxing, and drift racing very much like the transition to the more colorful UFC. Many can equip their favorite rear-wheel drive setup with an LS1 engine, grab a few […]
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#154 Vehicle Cyber Security & Data Privacy

Safely Connect Me Please. As a society, we are truly connected to data and information. In some occasions, this connectivity can leave us open to the risk of a cybersecurity nightmare. Can our vehicles pose that very same security risk with advancements of automotive technology? We have all heard and seen the widely reported incident of a Jeep vehicle purposely hacked to prove the point of how vulnerable we can be behind the wheel. Was this a “one-off” situation to […]
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#153 Women in Automotive: Support For STEM Based Careers

With many younger woman struggling at times in what is a male dominated automotive industry, we team up with NASCAR driver Julia Landauer http://bit.ly/2Lpq2xF and Tina Smith, Director of National Partnerships for TechForce Foundation http://bit.ly/2V3LE2i. Together we will talk about the cutting-edge programs available by way of some pretty awesome and in-depth STEM programs, creating a movement of inspiration and change. The Sad Reality. We still live In a time where it is still common place for a younger woman to look at her dreams of entering into careers of engineering, welding and automotiveas an extremely difficult accomplishment. They may have […]
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#152 How a Bad Attitude in the Service Bays Can Make Car Repair Go Horribly Bad

With over 1,000,000 automotive service bays in operation across the country and over 250 million vehicles that require service, the critical technical training and investment of specialized tooling and software are important factors to servicing the public’s motoring fleet efficiently. What about garage culture? In many independent or dealership garage environments, the positive culture and attitude of technicians can mean the difference between failing miserably with productivity and efficiency and ultimately contributing to less than stellar service for the automotive […]
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#151 50 Year Reunion Tony Dow Corvair

Reunions are for the most part full of great surprises, and in some occasions, perhaps, what we were not expecting at all. The excitement of reconnecting with an old vehicle that had all the charisma and charm from the early years of ownership, later to be nonchalantly sold off, can create an extraordinary amount of sentiment and is probably one of the sweetest things that can happen in life when it suddenly and magically reappears back in to our life’s […]
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#150 Vehicle Donations Making a Difference

Owning a vehicle is a major economic advantage and without it, hardships can certainly ensue. Most of our public transportation is not as flexible and can turn an average 30-minute commute into two hours. Vehicle ownership for low income families costs them more. According to reports from the Federal Reserve, those individuals making $30,000 or less can pay up to 59% more in vehicle finance interest than those making $90,000 and above. With longer commutes and the inability to reach higher levels of individual economic growth, this […]
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