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How to Choose Brake Pads | Ceramic or Organic Brake Pads

on October 28, 2010 in ALL POSTS, How To's, Rants, tutorials

If you are wondering how to choose brake pads for your vehicle, visit R1 Concepts online today. View our tips and tricks for choosing the right brake pads here! Nowadays, we have ceramics, semi-metallic, organic, and metallic formulations. Choosing the best combination for your vehicle isn’t always clear as black and white. Here are some […]

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Shameless Luxury? World’s Most Expensive Car Wax

on October 5, 2010 in ALL POSTS, Entertainment, Rants

So you think $100 for a hand wash and detailed wax for your dirty asphalt bruiser cruiser is expensive, think again. Brough & Howorth, a high-end vehicle detailing service company based in London, is offering those with deep pockets an alternative way to “protect and maintain your investment.” They are claiming to have “the world’s […]

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REINVENTING A CLASSIC? – 2011 HONDA CR-Z HYBRID

on October 1, 2010 in ALL POSTS, Car News & Reviews, Rants

Ahh yes, the Honda CRX. Who could get these tiny, late 1980s – early 1990s go-cart-like cruisers. They were super light, somewhat fun to drive, quite efficient , and to some are “drivers car.” Fast forward a couple of decades and we have the 2011 CRZ, a gasoline-electric hybrid. The original CRX is about 145 […]

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The Ugliest Modern Cars People Actually Drive

on September 3, 2010 in ALL POSTS, Entertainment, Rants

Here is a list of ugly cars I not so often see on the road. There are just so many but these are the cream of the crop when it comes to ugly. Nissan Cube – Cute, quirky, adorable, and whimsical? Maybe if the world is like Toontown at Disneyland. Fortunately, it is not and […]

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2010 Ford Taurus/Taurus SHO Performance Brakes

on August 18, 2010 in ALL POSTS, Car News & Reviews, eBay, New Releases, R1 Concepts Braking News

Due to the increase in  interests and requests, R1 Concepts is happy to annouce that we are now offering 2010 Ford Taurus brakes and 2010 Ford Taurus Sho brakes We are offering the R1 Premium series rotors for both the standard Taurus and SHO model. They are available in a cross drilled and slotted, cross drilled only, or […]

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Top 5: Most Expensive Cars in the World

on January 15, 2009 in ALL POSTS, Car News & Reviews, Rants

Top 5: Most Expensive Cars in the World   It’s hard to imagine that anyone will actually spend well over a million dollars on an automobile to have it sit in a garage most of the time. Majority of all the super cars sold and bought rarely exceeds 5,000 miles of driving. However, if you […]

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