Obama Rally: Earlier Sunday, Obama stated at a Coakley political rally that "anybody can buy a truck..." 

While that may be true Mr. President, it's also true that Brown's truck has aquired over 199,467 miles to be exact. At PETACar, we strive to emphesize the rights of automobiles as much as we do the rights of our citizens. It's clear to us at PETACar that as an avid supporter of automobile maintenance, we happily support Scott Brown's campaign for Senator. We hope that Scott Brown will use the same conservative values in the senate as he has used in maintaining his truck!!!

PETACAR Supports Scott Brown for Senator!

As if the utter destruction from the Cash 4 Clunker's program wasn't enough, it's been determined that several rare cars have also met their end with this program. According to this news report, a low mileage Maserati BiTurbo was destroyed and subsequently crushed as a trade-in on the C4C program.

Reported by LeftLaneNews: 

Ford’s latest V6 and V8 engines stand out for their good performance and even better fuel economy, but the new mills also stand out due to their glaring lack of direct-injection. DI is quickly becoming the industry standard but, as Ford found out during development, the latest technology isn’t always the best.

We’ve been lead to believe that direct-injection is better for fuel economy in all instances, but this purported fact doesn’t hold true for all applications. “When the program started, it [the new Duratec in the Mustang] was a direct-injection engine,” Greg T. Johnson, a powertrain integration manager whose responsibilities include both engines, told The Car Connection.

But after a number of tests, Johnson’s team realized they could better manipulate intake air temperatures – thereby increasing power and fuel economy – by omitting the DI technology.

Johnson admits the test engines with direct-injection helped with knock, but didn’t make a marked difference in overall performance – especially when the overall cost was entered into the equation. “Yeah, it helped us a little bit with knock, but it wasn’t that much for all the cost,” he said.

The results seem to speak for themselves. Ford’s new 3.7L V6 engine develops 305 horsepower, besting General Motors’ highest output 3.6L DI V6 by 1 horsepower. Ford’s V6 also clips GM’s by 1mpg highway. Ford’s latest 5.0L V8 performs comparatively as well, developing a healthy 412 horsepower and returning 25mpg.

Although adding direct-injection to the engine range would seem like the next logical step in the coming years, Johnson says there are no such plans in the works.

BREAKING NEWS : A salvage equipment firm has developed a new device of mass destruction. This story is so graphic, and so macabre, that we debated even showing it at PETACar. The company SAS Forks, has developed a new machine known as the "Scorpion Engine Puller". Quite literally, it unmercilessly rips the heart of the vehicle out through the top. In the past, cars which have "passed on" were stripped of all their useable parts by carefully dissasembling them, and hoisting their motors out where it can (and would) be rebuilt and given new life. This new practice by SAS literally destroys the car's will to live and irrevocably damages the engine and transmission. The images we are about to show you are very graphic in nature. We suggest that you turn away if you are squeamish or remove any children in the room before viewing.

Dave McBride : Horrible news. The co-host of Two Guys Garage passed away April 18th, 2007 after a difficult fight with cancer. I cannot express enough how tragic this is. Dave McBride was an excellent automotive enginer and had a profound positive impact on many lives. Please take the time to watch this short clip in memory of Dave McBride.

http://www.petacar.org/media/Dave_McBride.wmv