This final passion post won’t be about cars. Instead, I will write a final ‘farewell’ to CAS 137 and 138. Overall, these two courses have been fantastic, and have epitomized exactly what a freshman year communications/English course should be. At first, I was definitely nervous. English was never my strong suit and I was a […]
Issue Brief Outline
This is a rough outline of the Issue Brief due Sunday: Issue Brief Title: College Athletes Need Pay to Fairly Play Introduction: brief intro regarding professional and college athletes and current situation Body P1- For pay for players Body P2- Against pay for players Body P3- For pay for players’ likeness alone Conclusion- The […]
Weird Car Facts
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/10-weird-and-obscure-car-facts-every-petrolhead-should-know-about/ I am going to dedicate this blog post to weird car facts over the past few decades. Automakers do a lot of interesting things to push their cars to the absolute limit, or to save as much money as possible. I found a bunch of these online at the link above, or I read […]
Crossovers in the US
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g15380025/best-small-compact-suv-truck/ In middle-class America, more and more people are purchasing crossovers. If you look at the list of best selling cars and trucks in the United States, you will of course see the Ford F-150 and Toyota Camry. But you will see many more hatchbacks, SUVs, and crossovers. Crossovers are a combination between SUVs and […]
Issue Brief First Paragraph
College Athletes Need Pay to Fairly Play College athletes are essentially employees working thousands of hours to create billions of dollars. None of which goes to them. For years, their labor has been exploited by the NCAA and the schools that they attend. The NCAA makes over 1 billion dollars per year not including the […]
Auto Makers Helping in Desperate Times
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a32030576/aston-martin-works-servicing-cars-free-coronavirus/ During this pandemic, there isn’t much good news anymore. Everywhere you look on the news or read online is about how peoples’ lives are changing for the worse because of quarantine, or deaths in their family. However, I was reading an article this morning which I really enjoyed. It was from Car and Driver, […]
Chinese Automakers Today
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51711019 China has been on the rise in the production of electric vehicles, especially sports EVs. When many think of electric vehicles, they are probably thinking of Teslas (out of California), Porsche 918s (out of Stuttgart), or McLarens (out of Surrey). They probably aren’t thinking about the many that come out of China. The city […]
Air Pollution During the Coronavirus
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/health/china-air-pollution-coronavirus-deaths-intl/index.html During this time, news about the Corona virus is everywhere. Corona virus, or COVID-19, is a fast-spreading disease which causes flu-like symptoms. The scariest things are how quickly it spreads, the fact that symptoms may not appear at first, and its high death rate in elderly people and infants. Many teens and middle-aged adults […]
Uber and Lyft Suspended
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a31702558/uber-lyft-suspending-shared-ride-services/ It seems to be almost impossible to go a day without hearing someone talk about the Coronavirus outbreak. It is affecting every piece of society and is in every news source. Personally, this is the most concern a single issue has caused since I have been alive. Businesses are suffering too. Uber and Lyft […]
2020 Geneva Motor Show Canceled
Due to the recent outbreak of the Coronavirus, the Swiss government banned large gatherings of people. This includes the annual auto show. The Geneva International Motor Show showcases the newest prototypes and concepts of new and technologically advanced cars which will be released soon. Motor Trend recently released an article showing images of the concepts […]