You can safely use gasoline in your vehicle that contains up to 10% ethanol and all car manufacturers in North America warrantee the use of E-10 gasoline. The ethanol-blended gasoline that is commonly sold throughout Canada and the United States contains 6% to 10% ethanol. In order to use fuel that has an ethanol content of more than 10%, a flexible-fuel vehicle (FFV) is required.

The enthusiasm for ethanol ("flex-fuel" cars use E85, which is 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline) is welcome. But it works best if we use plug-in hybrids to power most of our miles electrically. Otherwise we'll need more ethanol than we can make sustainably. A combination solution: increasingly renewable electricity as the primary fuel and ethanol as the range extender.

Currently, our vehicle engines can burn only a small percentage of ethanol in their fuel. Typically, a normal vehicle can run on fuel of up to 10% ethanol with no problems. Ethanol is relatively caustic to standard rubber seals, gaskets, and hoses in the engine. Any concentration of ethanol above 10% will cause deterioration of the seals, gaskets, and hoses that can cause leakage. Automakers now produce vehicles that are called "flex fuel" vehicles.

Ethanol, or ethyl alcohol, is a clean-burning biofuel created from corn or other starch or sugar-based feedstocks. It can be blended with unleaded gasoline in amounts up to 85%.

There are lots of cars you can buy that are already set up for E-85: Ford Taurus, Chrysler Voyager Minivan, Ford Explorer, dodge Ram pickups and Mazda 3000 pickups, and much more. Go to my web page, "Converting your Engine" and click on the photo of the Sebring convertible to find out which cars are already factory-ready for E-85 fuel, which you can make yourself.

There are many myths surrounding the use of ethanol-blended fuels and the effect that they have on vehicle engines. In fact, you may find that your vehicle runs better on an ethanol-blended fuel as it will remove deposits and clean out the fuel lines in your vehicle. For detailed information about the use of ethanol blended fuels, contact the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association at www.greenfuels.org and refer to their ethanol questions and answers section.

Discarded tires quickly become breeding mosquitoes. Under the false guise of helping the marine habitat, tires are often wired together and dumped in the ocean. This method of disposal has several consequences: Tires release chemicals that are toxic to marine life for a long time until the tires have been completely overgrown with marine organisms. Organisms that eventually do settle on rubber tires are largely "weedy" organism like stinging hydroids, sponges, and fire coral.

Some of the default setups are excellent. Papyrus assigned a very quick driver to come up with setups for the various chassis at all the various circuits. He used setups from a number of sources, including those used by some of the fastest Papyrus engineers, and adapted some of the setups developed by the beta team as well as developing his many own. I haven't tried all of the default setups, but several of the ones I've tried are better than anything I've developed myself.

All cars sold at auction have a inspection report and are graded on their condition. However, some Auction companies grading systems are more reliable than others. The best way is to actually go and inspect the car for yourself. Experience is essiential as every model has problems that are particular that model only. If you know what to look for you can avoid the bad ones. I do not buy ACCIDENT GRADE cars. These are cars that have had significant damage or repairs.

You can submit the car one of two ways. If you're a member of the Champ Car Fanatics website (more on that below), you can post it in the liveries thread in the main forum and then PM me (TheMapman) that you want to be a part of the site. The other way is to use the Contact Us link and email a maximum 800 pixel width version of the car(s). I prefer the first method.

Well from a sales point of view we're always going to say yes. However, being realistic, what we like might not be to your taste. It's a personal thing.

Cars leave with good batteries, however due to time spent in transit they sometimes are "Dead" on arrival - usually a re-charge is enough to get them going again. New batteries purchased buyers side are not covered by P.E.S.

Some automakers have recently been building E85 capability into all instances of certain of their models; for example, all 2003 DaimlerChrysler vehicles (cars and minivans) with their 3.3-liter V6 engine can run on E85. However, in general a vehicle must be tuned to use ethanol; its requirements for fuel-air mixture and spark timing, in particular, are significantly different from those for gasoline.