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Toyota Keeps It “Simple” — #1 Simplest Brand in the Auto Industry

November 4, 2013

What are people looking for when it comes to their cars? The answer is simple. Strategic branding firm Siegel+Gale has just released their annual 2013 Brand Simplicity Index, which examined the impact of simpli...

Ed Bolian: the man who broke the Trans-American Automobile Crossing Record

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October 30, 2013

Ed Bolian, who is the sales director for Lamborghini of Atlanta, claims to have broken the record for the crossing the country in a car. The new record is 28 hours and 50 minutes, crushing the previous record o...

Exactly Why Don’t Millennials Want To Buy Cars?

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October 28, 2013

I recently read an article in Popular Science magazine by Dave Mosher called “Why You Can’t Sell Me A Car.” As a self proclaimed “Millennial” Dave lists his five demands that the auto makers need to address to...

The 6 weirdest car scene trends

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October 27, 2013

6. Donks. Contrary to the popular lowrider is the donk, box or bubble car. They are all generically referred to as hi-risers. While originally confined to 70’s model Chevrolet Impalas (donk), the trend spread...

“Rush” Brings Classic Formula 1 to the Limelight

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October 23, 2013

Although it has received a less than stellar turnout at the box office over the last three weeks, Rush was a fantastic watch for a burgeoning gear-head like me, who knew very little about the tumultuous history...

Muscle Cars: Then and Now

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October 9, 2013

Muscle cars were starting to die out in the mid 1970s, and they were a distant memory by the 80s. The Mustang and Camaro bounced up and down in the car game throughout the 1990s and 2000s, and there were act...

2015 Cadillac Escalade Revealed

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October 8, 2013

Lets get one thing straight. The Escalade was cool in 2002. Yeah, it is a nice looking SUV that goes up against others in its class such as a Range Rover, but MTV and rap music killed this vehicle a long ti...

Want A New Pontiac Trans-Am? Wait, What?

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September 19, 2013

The Pontiac Trans-Am is one of the most recognizable muscle cars of all time. I am a muscle car guy and am a sucker for a 1967 Shelby Mustang GT500 a.k.a "Eleanor" from Gone in 60 Seconds. If I could choose ...

New Corvette Stingray Tries The Nurburgring

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September 15, 2013

Here's a quick little bit for you - the new Corvette Stingray was reportedly taking some laps around the famed Nürburgring track in Germany. How was its time compared to some of the other cars that went aroun...

Audi Releases Another New Quattro Concept

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September 12, 2013

Audi is really itchin' to get a new Coupe Quattro in the dealerships. Just a few years ago in 2010 they presented us with an awesome Coupe Quattro concept. I guess you can argue that the A5/S5/RS5 i...

2015 BMW i8

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September 10, 2013

I'm a BMW guy. Always have been, and always will be. The new i8 really opened my eyes and truly showed me that BMW is really branching out into new territory. Call me old school, but give me an E36 M3 in Dak...

Most Valuable BMW Art Car Comes To Boston

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September 5, 2013

Most artists and BMW freaks know of the BMW Art Cars. These paintings with engines were brought to us by French racecar driver Herve Poulain. His goal: to have an artist use a car as a canva...

Raised From The Dead: Jeep Cherokee

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August 29, 2013

It has been called one of the greatest cars of all time – the Jeep Cherokee. Imagine that. A basic, little SUV is considered one of the greatest cars ever. That is how much of an impact the Cherokee left on ...

Evo pits Porsche 911 GT3 against McLaren MP4-12C and Nissan GT-R in amazing video

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August 23, 2013

The Brits, as usual, take car reviews to another level. In the vide above, Evo’s Jethro Bovingdon sets out winding and snaky European back roads to find out how the Porsche 911 GT3 does against competition ...

Is the Tesla S the safest car in the world? NHTSA says HOLD ON

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August 23, 2013

The government is refuting a claim made by Tesla that the Model S is the safest car ever tested, and that it received a "5.4" star rating. Tesla’s claim was recently challenged by the National Highway Traffi...

Michigan woman’s phone captures video of truck flying off the road into a ditch

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August 20, 2013

A woman captured a truck going off the road and diving right into a ditch in Lansing, Mich. using the popular Vine short video social media app. The driver was a 59-year-old man and was towing a lawnmower. W...

Hey Acura, would it kill you to make a coupe again?

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August 8, 2013

Acura is the luxury vehicle division of Honda, and they make a quality vehicle for the money. Their current lineup includes sedans, SUVs, and a station wagon. There is a noticeable gap in that lineup that nee...

Are Electric Cars Actually Good for the Environment?

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July 30, 2013

Picture yourself driving down the highway in 2003. What would you see? A big chunk of the vehicles on the road during that time were Escalades, Hummer H2s, Chevy Suburbans, and so on. The SUV craze was huge ...

Ford’s New Traffic Sensing Brake Light is a Step Forward in Safety

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June 28, 2013

Ford is currently working on something new that may improve safety for future vehicles. Auto companies are always trying to advance safety features in their vehicles, and it seems like there is always a new l...

Watch: 22-year-old drives BMW M3 over a cliff in Arizona

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June 24, 2013

Holy crap. A 22-year-old named Josh was extremely lucky not just to be alive but -- somehow -- to walk away uninjured after he sped through unguarded curves near Tortilla Flat, Ari. and took his 2005 BMW M3 ...

Blast Magazine was launched in 2007 with a simple thought — do journalism for the video game generation. We’ve really seen a lot since the 1980s. Nintendo Mega Man games, dial-up Internet, Dos, and the Palm Pilot were all in their infancy as we grew up. We shared files on 1.44MB (that’s MEGABYTE) floppy discs, and they were more than sufficient. As we grew up, the Internet blew up. Today you can stream a movie live in HD. Not only did HD not exist when we were growing up, but downloading a single, low-quality MP3 of our favorite song could take over an hour!

Technology developed quickly as we came of age, and we can claim to have mastered everything from iPads to Netflixes. But there is one thing that our generation did not have to grow up with — car maintenance.

A lot of us are interested in cars and trucks and motorcycles — this site wouldn’t be necessary if we weren’t. But how many Gen-Y’ers have ever had to change their oil? Change the brakes? Fix a cracked serpentine belt? Fixing cars was always something optional for us. We had to want to jack up a car and change a tire.

So now that we’re adults and we’re starting to recover from the crushing debt of our student loans, (We’re very bitter about this) we are finding our interests diversifying. If we were into cars already, we are getting more into cars. If we could never afford it, we are slowly raising our expectations. Say what you will, we are a curious generation.

Blast Cars is not exactly a beginners’ guide to the galaxy, but we’re not going to assume you know everything. We’re learning with you, and the experts we’ll bring into the process will walk both of us through everything we ever wanted to know about everything automotive.

In addition to restoring our Shop Truck, we are following some other Gen-Y restoration projects, including a racing bike. We’ll also bring you some relevant news, reviews, and rumors. We’ll even take a look at some of the most famous cars in movies, music, TV, true crime, and other popular culture. Let us know what you want to see!