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Winter Driving Tips Redux

Photo: iStockphoto It's beginning to look a lot like…winter driving tip season! Before starting my post on winter driving tips, I thought I should take a quick trip down snowy memory lane here on PumpTalk and share a few of our greate...

How Modern Car Technology Makes These Old School Driving Tips Obsolete

Many of my childhood memories growing up in Edmonton involve winter driving - mainly in my father's silver 1977 Aspen. This car was a neighborhood legend. The local mechanics down the street would literally come out and applaud when we...

Performance Driver Training Tips Applied to Everyday Driving

Back in June, we provided you with some great videos on driving from our resident expert, Brett Goodman, on our high octane fuel Ultra 94 Facebook page. Brett is the owner and race director of performance driving school Bridgestone Racin...

Driving Blind Can Get You Fined - Clean the Snow Off Your Car!

You're leaving for work. It's dark. It's cold. It snowed last night and your car is blanketed with several inches of powder. Do you: a) Just give the windshield a swipe and hope the rest blows off before you hit the highway? b) Get y...

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Photo: iStockphoto Well for some... but for others the thought of snow and shoveling is not a pretty picture. As 2011 comes to an end, we wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a wonderful Holiday season. We hope you have found our po...

Keeping Your Car Interior Clean Can Help Keep You Healthy

I climbed into our vehicle last weekend and caught a whiff of something musty. After some intense investigative sniffing, I still had no idea where the smell was coming from. Then I noticed some green gunge around the window seals - th...

Fuel Efficiency doesn’t have to be difficult

I haven’t blogged on fuel efficiency lately, what with the August gasoline shortage (again – thanks everyone for your patience) and the September price fluctuations. But we’ve not forgotten about the topic. In fact, over the last couple ...

Gas Prices...Strange Magic or Upside Down?

There has been a lot going on in the world over the last few weeks. Gas prices still get some media and blog attention, but with prices lower than anyone could have imagined just two months ago, people and reporters have clearly moved ...

March Break Is Here!

The middle of March is now upon us, and it's a very exciting time for most school-aged children, and their parents. It's that lovely week that gives you a breath after a long winter (kind of), and gets you excited for the summer months...