Beaver County Boom!

Less than a week for Beaver County BOOM!

Beaver County BOOM! will host fireworks beginning at 9:45 p.m. Saturday from a barge at the confluence of the Beaver and Ohio rivers near Bridgewater.

Beaver County radio stations 1230-WBVP and 1460-WMBA will simulcast the musical score accompanying the fireworks.

Everyone is welcome, and this event is FREE so bring the whole family!

For more info visit: http://www.timesonline.com/entertainment/local_entertainment/fourth-of-july-events/article_c8cd0da2-e52f-562a-a48f-510cef13f9ba.html

What Drives You?

We want to know... what drives you? What is it that puts you behind the wheel of the Chevrolet or Kia car you drive every day?

Is it the style, fuel economy, technology, or some other reason.

Maybe Chevy was your dads favorite brand and it just stuck with you... maybe a Kia was your first and only car brand. Let us know! Leave us a comment on our Facebook page by clicking here.

Give us all the details of why you drive your preferred brand, and share it with the rest of the world.

Stick Shift Challenge

Are you an experienced stick shift driver? Well, the Chevy Sonic crew is stepping it up by coming up with a challenge to learn about driving a manual.

You can win trips to take a class at a world renown driving school and be taught by a real icon, and win tickets to the State Farm Home Run Derby and MLB All-Star Game!

A lot of us learned to drive a stick-shift somewhere back in high school or college. A lot of us shed more than a few tears as we got stuck on hills, ground the gears, and made whoever owned that car want to pull out their hair and push us out of the driver’s seat. It’s a skill you never forget once you learn, just like riding a bike, but what if you’ve never had the chance? Chevy aims to help new drivers learn with their new Stay Clutch challenge.


With reports showing that the number of stick-shifts on the road is increasing, the Stay Clutch challenge gives novice drivers a chance to win a lesson from celebrity instructors in Kansas City along with tickets to the 2012 State Farm Home Run Derby and MLB All-Star Games. To enter, potential new stick-shift drivers start by heading over to the Sonic Challenge Facebook page.


There they can learn about the Sonic with its hill start assists technology and progressive clutch pedal which make the whole learning curve a lot easier to manage. Really, where was this when I was learning and rolled backward down a hill to the blaring horns of what seemed like a thousand people?


Read More: http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/06/chevy-stay-clutch-challenge/

Kia Optima & Sorento Named Among Best Family Cars Of 2012 By Edmunds & Parents Magazine

Kia's Midsize Sedan and Crossover are Two of Only 15 Vehicles to be Honored for their abundance of family-friendly attributes, including safety, comfort and reliability.

PRNewswire writes:


Parents magazine and Edmunds.com have named the 2012 Kia Optima midsize sedan and Kia Sorento crossover utility to the publications' "Best Family Cars of 2012" list. The accolade recognizes vehicles focusing on reliability, safety and affordability as top priorities, with the Optima and Sorento's "Top Safety Pick" designations from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) playing a key factor in being named as two of only 15 vehicles to the coveted list.  Other criteria the judges considered were performance, interior quality, exterior design, family-friendly features and technology.
"As bold design and value are no longer mutually exclusive, the Optima and Sorento have changed the way many consumers look at what family cars can and should be," said Michael Sprague, vice president of marketing and communications, Kia Motors America (KMA).  "This recognition from leading family and automotive resources Parents magazine and Edmunds.com reinforces why these two Kia vehicles are among our top-selling products and why more families are considering Kia for the first time."




Source: PR Newswire (http://s.tt/1dtbS)

Chevy Ending Production of The Avalanche

After an 11-year run for Chevrolet's crew-cab pickup the 2013 Avalanche marks the last of the Avalanche line-up, but Chevrolet is making sure it goes out with a bang with the Black Diamond model!

The Chicago Tribune writes:

Chevrolet is ending production of its Avalanche pickup truck after model-year 2013 and releasing one last edition to celebrate. The model's swan song is the Black Diamond Avalanche, which features body-colored bed surrounds and a unique badge on the sail panel. The model caps an 11-year run for Chevrolet's crew-cab pickup.

Along with the Black Diamond additions, a backup camera, rear park assist, power-adjustable pedals, fog lamps and remote start will be added as standard equipment on model-year 2013 LS models. LT models also get a standard backup camera this year. According to Chevrolet, base prices also have been reduced by $2,500 with the two-wheel-drive Avalanche LS now starting at $35,980, plus a $995 destination charge.

To read more on the new Avalanche, click here!

What is Horsepower?

HowStuffWorks gives us an inside look of what horsepower really is and how it works.Chances are you've heard about horsepower. Just about every car ad on TV mentions it, people talking about their cars bandy the word about and even most lawn mowers have a big sticker on them to tell you the horsepower rating.

HSW writes:

What is horsepower, and what does the horsepower rating mean in terms of performance? In this article, you'll learn exactly what horsepower is and how you can apply it to your everyday life.

The term horsepower was invented by the engineer James Watt. Watt lived from 1736 to 1819 and is most famous for his work on improving the performance of steam engines. We are also reminded of him every day when we talk about 60-watt light bulbs.

To read more, click here!

Kia Soul Has "All That" and More

The “peppy” and “zippy” Kia Soul is four years in production this year, and jsonline says it hasn’t lost its appeal yet!


JSOnline Writes:

Kia's youthful and useful Soul joined the small boxy car market four years ago and, amazingly, it seems no less hip today.

The car's rear sloping roofline and funky colors make it stand out from the other practical small hatches. My test drive was a "Moss" metallic greenish brown.

There are three Souls. The base starts at $13,900, the Soul+ starts at $16,300, and the tested Soul! starts at $19,600. The test car added no options, just the $750 delivery cost, to reach $20,350.

The price has crept up a bit in the past four years, but then so has the horsepower. The Soul!'s zippy and quiet 2.0-liter CVVT I4 pumps out 164 horsepower, up 22 horses from the previous model. Plus the Soul! now features a six-speed automatic with Active Eco system as standard. A four-speed automatic was the norm in the first-year Soul.

The base Soul still comes with a 138-horse 1.6-liter I4, but the + and ! models include the 164-horse engine. It certainly moves the 2,778-lb. Soul to normal driving speeds, or highway speed, in short order. I was impressed with how quick and nimble the car is.

To read more, click here!