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Infographic: Why is your car insurance so high?

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Car insurance rate infographic – Click above to view in high-res

Car insurance rates are determined with a host of factors in mind. Objective items like a motorist’s age and driving record are the most-weighted factors insurers consider, but those items among a couple of dozens of things used to figure out what your premiums will be. Included in the CarInsurance.com graphic are stats like 2010’s most-expensive car to insure, the Porsche 911 GT2, and the least, the Mazda Tribute.

Behind driving record, age and marital status are factors like what you drive, your gender, your state and credit rating. While lots of the factors are things drivers have some control over, a small part of the insurance rate you pay comes down to what company you choose to go with and which policy you buy. Follow the jump for an expanded breakdown of insurance costs.

[Source: CarInsurance.com]

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Infographic: Gas is still cheap

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Gas prices compared to other common items
See? Gas really is cheaper than you think… Click above to enlarge

Nationwide, motorists are shelling out an average of $3.55 per gallon of petrol. That’s a lot more cash than you were paying last year at this time, but – stop us if you’ve heard this one before – an interesting graphic from Good shows that gas is a real bargain compared to other liquids we consume every day.

For example, a gallon of freshly brewed coffee from Starbucks will set you back $32. Move up from coffee to Guinness and you’re looking at doubling your tally to $64 for every 128 ounces consumed. We know you won’t be shocked that Dom Perignon is $755 per gallon, but did you know that nail polish is $1,015 for the same portion size? If you want a consumable with comparable per-gallon pricing, you’ll have to pick up some Coca-Cola, which retails for $3.84 per gallon.

Okay, so you probably don’t feel any better about gas prices (we sure don’t), but you click on the image above to see how other items you use every day compare to the price of a gallon of gas.

[Source: Good via Kicking Tires]

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Transformers infographic lists cartoon’s every character

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Transformers infographic crop

Transformers infographic – Click above to enlarge

Lamborghini Countaches, a Ferrari Testarossa, Pontiac’s Fiero and Trans Am in multiple shapes and sizes, more Jeep Wranglers than you can shake a stick at and even a Lancia Stratos. No, we’re not talking about the posters plastered on the walls of our bedrooms when we were 12, we’re talking Transformers. Specifically, the original cartoon series that aired from 1984 to 1987.

Yes, the majority of us who man the Autoblog HQ are very much children of the 1980s, so we know ourselves some Transformers folklore. And so you’d think an infographic like the one seen after the jump would really get our blood pumping… and it did, for a moment. Then we noticed how many errors and inconsistencies were present and that pumping turned into something more like boiling. Here are just a few of the many errors:

  • Optimus Prime, the most famous of all Autobots, was a cab-over truck. Michael Bay turned him into a traditional semi for the more recent movie franchise.
  • Note the number of vehicles shown that were built after the show ended in 1987, including a 1994 Volkswagen New Beetle.
  • Hound was an American Army Jeep, not a Japanese “Jeep”.
  • Chromedome… what the heck is that thing?
  • Ultra Magnus, like Optimus Prime, was a cab-over Freightliner, not a Mac truck.

Check out the entire infographic after the jump and let us know in the comments if you find any more errors. We will say the infographic’s last section where it shows which automakers the Autobots tended to favor is pretty cool.

[Source: CarInsurance.org via Comics Alliance]

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Infographic: America’s best and worst commutes

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America's Best and Worst Commutes

America’s Best and Worst Commutes – Click above for full-size

The minds from TheStreet and Bundle have gotten together to put an eyeball on the best and worst commutes in America, and they found that the average American worker blows around $6,000 per year on transportation costs alone. In order to rank cities, Bundle lined up spending information alongside the average length of a commute, the number of miles covered, hours delayed, maintenance and fuel costs. Of the 90 localities that the survey covered, Dallas was saddled with the worst commute of them all, followed by San Jose, Miami, Los Angeles and Bridgeport Connecticut. Commuters in the Dallas area travel a little over a combined 52 million miles every work day. Just for perspective, that’s farther than the distance from Earth to Mars.

The news isn’t all bad, though. Workerbees in Eugene, Oregon; Brownsville, Texas; Toledo, Ohio and Anchorage, Alaska all came out with the least headache-inducing drives around. Interestingly enough, drivers in Detroit spent the least on auto expenses and gas than anywhere else. Head over to Bundle to check out the full report for yourself.

[Source: Bundle]

Infographic: America’s best and worst commutes originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Infographic: The Unstealable Car

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The Unstealable Car infographic

What a theft-proof car requires – Click above to view the image after the jump

According to HomeSecurity.net, one million vehicles (worth a total of $7.5 billion) were stolen in the United States last year. If you don’t want to join a top ten list of vehicles dominated by Honda and Toyota, there are seven key technologies you’d install to create “The Ultimate Theft-Proof Car.” No, one of them isn’t The Club.

Leading the way is a radio-frequency transmitter, which is alone responsible for 90 percent of theft recoveries. Following that are a secure identification device like a fingerprint reader, some sort of GPS tracking system, SIM-card operated GSM communications that allow the car to call its owner when broken into, an interior motion detector, keyless entry and a passive immobilizer. Or you could just get an Abrams M1 tank – we hear they’re pretty hard to lift. Follow the jump for the complete infographic.

[Source: HomeSecurity.net]

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