| Jeep Air Filter Upgrades - Air Filters Blowout | | Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:45:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | There is a lot of hullabaloo about air filters and which one is better for this, that, or the other reason. The fact of the matter is that which filter is better depends on what you are intending to do with your Jeep and what your Jeep is made of. For example, if you've got a stock engine, basically any filter will flow enough air to keep it happy. And you aren't going to pick up any power from a filter swap alone. The restriction in the stock Jeep is the stock air-intake system, not the filter. However, if you've got a super-modified mud-runner or just a high-horsepower trail machine, the stock filter won't cut it and you'll need to upgrade. The Test: ISO-5011 The International Organization for Standardization sets up uniform testing procedures, conditions, and equipment so that test results can be reproduced anywhere.... | |
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| | | Big Jeep SUV's ride may end | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:46:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | The future of the hulking Jeep Commander SUV introduced a little over a year ago looks bleak. Auto analysts and other industry officials say the Commander, a boxy three-row SUV built at Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit, is likely to be discontinued after the 2009 model-year. "We removed the Commander from our forecast" after the 2009 model year, said Jeff Schuster, forecasting analyst with California-based J.D. Power and Associates. J.D. Power and other auto forecasting firms gather information from suppliers and other industry sources privy to automakers' future production plans. Another automotive analyst, who didn't want to speak on the record, shared a similar forecast. A United Auto Workers official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed to The Detroit News that the union understands the Commander will go out of production in 2008, likely after the 2009 model year.... | |
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| | | Protests in Srinagar over death of two by police jeep | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:46:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Srinagar, Oct 24: Scores of people, mostly women, took to the streets on Tuesday to protest the killing of two in a collision between a police jeep and a scooter.Angry protestors also set a vehicle afire. To control and disperse the agitated mob, police had to fire several rounds and burst teargas shells.It is reported that a father and his son, riding a scooter, were killed in a head-on collision with the police jeep at Nowgam, about six km from Srinagar. Police personnel driving the jeep abandoned the vehicle and fled from the siteDemanding the immediate arrest of the driver, the mob set the vehicle on fire.Demonstrators also threw stones at a Nowgam police party which came to the spot following the incident.Traffic on the Nowgam route has been temporarily suspended. .... | |
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| | | Gas price seesaw affects car sales | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:45:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | When Nelson Ropke recently replaced his Jeep Grand Cherokee sport utility vehicle with a Chrysler Pacifica crossover, gasoline prices were top-of-mind. The lawyer from Grosse Pointe is a typical buyer still smarting from post-Katrina $3-per-gallon prices, but some analysts and dealers say they're seeing fewer people like him since pump prices subsided in the later part of September. Others, though, say many people are behaving just like Ropke, with fears of someday paying $4 per gallon pushing them toward more fuel-efficient models. Throw in some economic uncertainty, the effects of interest rate increases, and a bloated inventory of domestic trucks and SUVs, and it's anyone's guess which way auto sales went in September. That mystery will be solved Tuesday when companies release their monthly sales figures.... | |
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| | | Driver charged in 2-car triple fatality | | Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 4:46:22 AM by Blog57 Team | | A Scarborough man who survived a car crash last weekend that killed three people, including a mother and her infant son, has been charged with three counts of dangerous driving causing death. After receiving a call from investigators, the 25-year-old turned himself in yesterday morning and appeared "upset," Ontario Provincial Police Const. Dave Woodford said at a press conference in Whitby yesterday. The man was arrested just after the crash on Highway 12 and Highway 7, just north of Whitby, treated in hospital for a broken arm and released unconditionally. Police met with the Crown's office earlier this week before charging the man. Woodford said blood-alcohol tests were taken "some time" after the incident and require further testing by the Centre of Forensic Sciences to determine if impaired driving was a factor.... | |
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| | | AUDIO from Medialink: You've Got Mud on Your Face & You're Driving Your New Jeep All Over the Place | | Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 6:45:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | --It's not even election time, but mud will be slinging in Dallas. In celebration of the launch of the 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, the Jeep Brand is inviting consumers across the country to take part in the "Jeep Stick in the Mud" challenge. Listen to this report at: http://media.medialink.com/WebNR.aspx?story=32325 Registered journalists can access video, audio, text, graphics and photos for free and unrestricted use at http://media.medialink.com. .... | |
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| | | Impaled girl expected to live | | Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:45:50 AM by Blog57 Team | | PINCHER CREEK -- A four-year-girl is in stable condition in a Calgary hospital after being impaled by a tree branch while driving with her family. RCMP say the family was off-road, driving in a Jeep about 180 km southwest of Calgary when a tree branch smashed the windshield. They say the branch was eight to 10 cm in diameter. It narrowly missed an 18-year-old in the front passenger seat, but went through the seat to the back and impaled the young girl. Her mother and six-year-old brother were also in the back seat. The girl's father, who was driving, had first aid experience and was able to stop the bleeding until help arrived. Another family member went for help on a quad. The girl was eventually picked up in a helicopter by forest fire fighters who were on standby in the area.... | |
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| | | Biodiesel gets a boost from Jeep that burns the soy-based fuel | | Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 10:46:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | DES MOINES, Iowa Buyers of Jeep's newest full-sized sport utility vehicle will hit the road with a tankful of a diesel fuel blend made from soybean oil, fast-food grease or vegetable oil. Jeep maker DaimlerChrysler will deliver the diesel-powered Jeep Grand Cherokee C-R-D to dealers in the first quarter of 2007. The S-U-Vs will be filled with B-five, a blend containing five percent biodiesel. Supporters of biodiesel hope the move will signal increased interest in the fuel. It has lagged behind the rapidly growing ethanol industry. Grant Kimberley, a spokesman for the Iowa Soybean Association, says auto and engine manufacturers are embracing the use of the fuel. Iowa has six biodiesel manufacturers, six more under construction, and ten in the feasibility and planning stages.... | |
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| | | Canadian Theoret wins APBA Gold Cup | | Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 8:45:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | DETROIT -- Jean Theoret from Maple Grove, Quebec, led from start to finish Sunday despite a damaged boat, winning the Chrysler Jeep Superstores APBA Gold Cup. Theoret's U-37 Miss Beacon Plumbing averaged 142.441 mph. Going into the first roostertail turn, the boat's cowling flew off, taking out its wing. "I saw in the rearview mirror the rear wing was gone," Theoret said. "It didn't affect the way the boat was handling. I said, 'We got to go.'" Theoret was the third non-U.S. citizen to win the Gold Cup and the first since 1938, when Italian Count Theo Rossi won in the Alagi on the Detroit River. It was a difficult weekend for Theoret. He had to win Heat 4A to earn enough points to make it into the final. Theoret ran into trouble in his other heats with two penalties for hitting a buoy and one for jumping the gun.... | |
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| | | Altercation leads to accident in Gerrardstown | | Posted Saturday, July 15, 2006 10:45:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | GERRARDSTOWN, W.Va. - A mother and her son were taken Friday night to Winchester (Va.) Medical Center after the Jeep in which they were riding swerved off the road in Gerrardstown, Berkeley County Sheriff's Department Deputy Michael Longerbeam said. Debra Jean Mullins, 48, and her 16-year-old son were traveling in a Jeep Wrangler east on Apple Harvest Drive, west of Nancy Jack Road, about 7:30 p.m. when an altercation inside the vehicle caused Mullins to swerve the Jeep off the road, Longerbeam said. Longerbeam said Mullins was taking her son to the hospital, but her son "tried to grab the steering wheel," causing her to swerve off the road and into an embankment, at which point the Jeep rolled onto its passenger side. Both the mother and son sustained cuts and abrasions, Longerbeam said.... | |
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