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Happy Holidays from Autoblog!

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Hood Wreath

It’s the holiday season once again, and we here at Autoblog send our best wishes to all of you during this especially festive time of year. Like you, we’ll be spending plenty of quality time with our family and friends, but never fear, we’ve got a whole weekend’s worth of content lined up before we’re back in full force on Monday.

In the meantime, be sure to scroll through our Car Gifts for Christmas holiday gift guide. Not only do these items – large and small – make great gifts for the season of giving, they’ll still be available well into the new year just in case you have some extra holiday cash left over. Read all three parts of our gift guide here, here and here.

From all of us at Autoblog, have a very happy holiday!

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Happy Holidays from Autoblog! originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 25 Dec 2010 09:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Video: BMW Motorrad wishes the world happy holidays

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BMW Motorrad holiday greeting

BMW Motorrad holiday greeting – Click above to watch video after the jump

The weather outside may have a rather large portion of the country’s motorcyclists pining for spring, but that hasn’t stopped the two-wheel obsessed crew over at BMW Motorrad from wishing the world a very merry Christmas in its own special way. Using a little electric guitar and some Stomp-esque percussion work by a team of helmeted riders, the Bavarian motorcycle maker has turned out a special holiday tune just for the occasion. You can check out the flick after the jump, but that’s not all.

If you like what you see, you can even work up your own version of the video to send as an e-card to that certain someone special. Nothing says, “Honey, I want an R1200 GS Adventure under the tree this year,” quite like a holiday greeting from a gaggle of leather-clad motorcycle heathens. You can even upload a photo of yourself into the card and craft your own personalized message. Head over to the BMW Motorrad site to get started.

[Source: BMW Motorrad]

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Video: BMW Motorrad wishes the world happy holidays originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Study: It’s actually safer to drive on holidays

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We may have one less excuse not to visit the in-laws this holiday season. According to the National Motorists Association and State Farm, driving on the holidays may actually be safer than jumping behind the wheel on a normal day. The insurance agency recently took a look at the number of claims it received on seven separate major U.S. holidays – the Fourth of July, New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Easter, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas – and found that on average, those days had 2,350 fewer accidents than non-holidays.

The NMA says that for the majority of the year the average number of claims comes in around 7,435, while the holiday with the most claims – the Fourth of July – netted just 6,031. The figures are without a doubt interesting, but we would be just as interested to see the insurance agency’s numbers on the days leading up to and trailing away from major holidays. The majority of people who head away from home typically hit the road just before the actual day of celebration, so we’re guessing the number of claims for, say, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving might be higher than the national average.

[Source: National Motorist Association | Image: Scott Olson / Getty Images]

Study: It’s actually safer to drive on holidays originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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