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September 18, 2023
Popular pickup trucks are getting significant updates for 2024 premium
Trucks aren’t the lonely utilitarian workhorses they once were and now occupy the primary vehicle spot for many buyers in the United States. Because of that, automakers have added more tech, comfort, and luxury features to their trucks, making them easier to live with and more agreeable to drive. There’s also a whole world of […]
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October 1, 2020
Charitable Giving at AutoTempest premium
When I founded AutoTempest.com, I wanted to help solve a problem: how to easily search multiple car shopping sites at the same time. It’s not a big problem, or even a particularly important one. But I do believe we’ve created the best way to search for used cars, saving millions of people a bit of […]
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December 6, 2018
Search Budgets in the United States premium
Interactive Search Budgets Map The wonderful world of data.  It’s so easy sometimes to fall down a black hole of numbers, trying to make sense of what we’re seeing and how those data points should drive what we do.  The linked Tableau map you see above is what happens when a car nerd turned data […]
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February 4, 2016
AutoTempest’s 10 Most Popular Vehicles Of January 2016 premium
Because we at AutoTempest love numbers nearly as much as we love cars, (well, some of do anyway), we'll be tracking searches for vehicles throughout the year, and seeing what we can learn from the data we pull. To kick things off, we've pulled numbers for individual vehicle searches, and put together a list of the 10 vehicles that people searched for the most on AutoTempest.
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December 30, 2015
Top 10 AutoTempest Articles Of 2015 premium
Prior to July 2015, where did you go for advice on buying a used car? Friends? Colleagues? A magic 8 ball? Wherever it was, your world was likely turned upside down when The AutoTempest Blog launched, thus giving you access to the best advice one could hope for. Of course it wasn’t just the information […]
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November 25, 2015
LA Auto Show 2015: The Return Of The Fiat 124 Spider & A New Star Wars Cast Member? premium
We know for sure that the new Fiat 124 Spider will be sold in North America as a 2017 model, but will we see the Fiat 500E make a cameo in the upcoming film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens? No, no we will not, that would be ridiculous. The film takes place long ago in […]
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November 17, 2015
The Five 2015 LA Auto Show Vehicle Debuts We’re Most Looking Forward To. premium
  2017 Audi RS7 Performance Debuts At: 3:35 pm PST The Audi RS7 is a stupid fast vehicle, as I quickly found out when I got behind the wheel of one, and put the gas pedal to the floor. I couldn’t help but laugh manically as the 4.0L twin turbo V8 quickly pulled the nearly 4,500 […]
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September 22, 2015
Why You Should Go Buy A Used Volkswagen or Audi Diesel Right Now. premium
If you don’t live in California, and are willing to buy from a private seller, or used car lot, now is an excellent time to go buy a 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI wagon. They’re still great cars, and despite what experts like your cousin Stan say, skirting EPA regulations doesn’t change that. The predictably wild reaction […]
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July 28, 2015
Does Mitsubishi Matter Without The Evo? premium
Perhaps they'll be so bold as to fold their shrinking network of dealerships and be the first major manufacturer to sell cars directly to consumers online. How cool would that be?
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July 14, 2015
What Volvo’s Purchase Of Polestar Means For Current Volvo Owners premium
If you want to be taken seriously as a prestige brand in the United States, you must have a performance division. AMG products fuel the lust for a Mercedes Benz. Audi’s RS models are desired forbidden fruit in the States. BMW’s M division has long been the benchmark for in house tuning.
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