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Autosavant’s Metal Wars Contest, Sponsored by Purolator

By on July 21, 2010 in Housekeeping

By Chris Haak

Our friends at Purolator are sponsoring our latest giveaway, and this time it’s easier than ever to win.  First prize is a free Purolator oil filter.  (So is second prize, and so is third prize!)

Purolator is marketing its oil filters through a silly series of three YouTube videos in the vein of Battle Bots.  However, in this case, instead of attacking each other, menacing-looking remote control robots attack paper – either a toilet paper roll, an egg carton, or a cardboard box.  Predictably, the robots win each bout, and the moral of each story is that metal beats cardboard every time.

The point of all this is that Purolator uses metal end caps on their oil filters rather than paper ones.  The metal is obviously more durable, and oil is forced to go through the actual filter media, where with paper, it might saturate or damage the paper, and go back through the engine unfiltered.  We definitely wouldn’t want that.  So, how to enter?

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All Autosavant, All the Time

By on June 17, 2010 in Housekeeping

By Chris Haak

We at Autosavant want to make it as easy as possible for you to follow our latest updates in our continuing coverage of cars and the car business, so as a reminder, we thought we’d recap them here:

Facebook:  Find us (and please “Like us”) at facebook.com/autosavant

Twitter:  Follow us at twitter.com/autosavant

RSS:  Point your feed reader to http://feeds2.feedburner.com/autosavant

Also, don’t forget our comprehensive list of Autosavant new-vehicle reviews.  The majority of these have come from week-long press loans, where our writers are able to spend a significant amount of time (and hundreds of miles) with a car to get a great feel for what it’s like to live with on a daily basis.  We don’t give zero to sixty times or skidpad numbers, but we do tell you what it’s like to install a car seat, or what the seats feel like after a two-hour stint behind the wheel.

If you forget any of the above, don’t fret:  the information is also at the top of our home page.  Thanks for reading!

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Help Wanted

By on June 11, 2010 in Housekeeping

By Chris Haak

Autosavant is growing in pageviews and visitors, and in order for us to continue expanding our coverage of cars and the car business – including expert reviews, industry analysis, compelling editorials, and insightful commentary – we need more writers.

If you are knowledgable about the auto industry, or have an expertise in a particular segment of this industry – whether it be a knowledge of Chinese cars, the Australian ute segment, or muscle-bound cars of the 1960s – and have a passion that you’re able to put into words, then I’d love to talk with you about joining our team.

You won’t get rich writing for us, but you will get exposure, and you will build your writing chops.  We don’t tell you what to write about, and don’t give you deadlines, and writing for us opens access to industry events like auto shows and vehicle launches that the general public can only read about in places like Autosavant.

So if you’re up for it, please drop me an email at editor@autosavant.com and check out our hiring page.  We also pay a referral bonus to existing writers who bring writer friends on board.  The more prolific and intelligent your writing, the better.

Chris Haak
Editor-in-Chief

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Back from the Wilderness

By on April 22, 2010 in Housekeeping

By Chris Haak

We at Autosavant have had a rough April.  Coming out of the New York Auto Show on a high note in early April, and proud of our comprehensive coverage there, our site was hit numerous times by hackers who inserted malicious code behind the scenes.

Initially, we assumed that this security breach was caused by using an unsecured wifi connection while at the show.  In spite of numerous attempts to clean out the bad code, within hours of getting the site back online, the malware would return, either asking users to “update their web browser” or in the form of Google warning visitors to stay away.  Not exactly the public face we want to put on.

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