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Why Are You Wearing A Mask While Driving Alone?

May 22, 2020 robert.maddrey Comments Off on Why Are You Wearing A Mask While Driving Alone?

Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning guide to Americans that the coronavirus outbreak was fast approaching. This news caused face mask sales to skyrocket, and soon clueless […]

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Valets No Longer Know How To Drive Manual?

June 30, 2017 robert.maddrey Comments Off on Valets No Longer Know How To Drive Manual?

Not long ago my wife and I took a vacation to Savannah, GA where we were enjoying a long weekend out of town and doing a road trip review of the 2017 Mazda3 5-Door hatchback. […]

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Has America Rediscovered Mid-Engined Sports Cars?

January 21, 2015 robert.maddrey Comments Off on Has America Rediscovered Mid-Engined Sports Cars?

This might be the greatest decade ever for sports cars. We have the LaFerrari, McLaren’s P1 and the Porsche 918. All wonderful, exquisite pieces of extreme automotive engineering; and all distinctly European. So, where are […]

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How Does Google’s Traffic Map Really Work?

September 18, 2013 robert.maddrey Comments Off on How Does Google’s Traffic Map Really Work?

So you’ve packed up the car and are ready to head off on a long-awaited road trip or maybe you’re just headed to a meeting across town, what epic plight of congestion will the traffic […]

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The Brave New World of the Tesla Model S

September 16, 2013 robert.maddrey Comments Off on The Brave New World of the Tesla Model S

A question often asked in the automotive publishing world is, “What is the future of the automobile?” Is that future being pioneered now by Tesla? […]

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How Dangerous Is Talking On the Phone While Driving?

August 9, 2013 robert.maddrey Comments Off on How Dangerous Is Talking On the Phone While Driving?

Maybe Talking On the Phone While Driving Is Not As Bad As We’ve Been Made To Think? Maybe It’s More About the Driver… New research which takes advantage of the increase in cell phone use […]

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Hyundai Like Sunday…They’ve Come So Far, So Shortly

September 7, 2012 robert.maddrey Comments Off on Hyundai Like Sunday…They’ve Come So Far, So Shortly

It wasn’t all that long ago that we were all laughing at Hyundais, in fact Kanye West’s 2005 hit rap-song Gold Digger probably summed things up perfectly when it lamented the woes of an NFL player beleaguered […]

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August 2012 Record Month for DownShiftMagazine.com

September 4, 2012 robert.maddrey Comments Off on August 2012 Record Month for DownShiftMagazine.com

August was suffice to say a good month for us…with your help we managed to not only break our monthly web-traffic record but completely obliterate it, setting a new monthly record of 106,916 total hits in 31 days! […]

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