Car Tipping

Decode This approaching 1,000,000 Decodes!

via www.decodethis.com

One of my flagship web sites is the online universal VIN decoder known as Decode This! (www.decodethis.com). It's been churning out free VIN decodes for vehicles from 1950 to modern day for over two years now.

Decode This has served over 980,000 VIN decodes in its lifetime, averaging about 2,000 to 3,000 a day. Soon it will reach that magical 1,000,000 decode mark. I have to say I'm quite proud of the site, and that a redesign is in the works. Now that VIN Hunter Pro (www.vinhunterpro.com), my iPhone app for car dealers, is live hopefully I'll have time to complete the redesign.

$300,000 a Year to Maintain the Bugatti Veyron

via www.autoblog.com

Autoblog mentions the outrageous price it costs to keep a Bugatti Veyron in tires and oil.  I thought the McLaren F1 was expensive because they flew a service tech to your location for annual maintenance.  This makes the F1 look like a Volkswagen in comparison.

I can't say I'd drive one of these over buying a Ferrari outright each year.  But then I'm not a member of the idle rich.

It's Alive!

Wow, it's finally done.  I've been coveting this domain name (cartipping.com) for quite some time now.  There used to be a decent Pligg site running on this domain that I actually went through the effort to contact the owner to ask about buying it.  I got turned down because he said he didn't own it anymore but offered no contact information on the new domain owner.

Finally, TWO months ago the domain went expired.  But because of the asinine way domain expirations happen it's taken this long for me to take ownership.

Why did I want it so bad?  I'm not really sure, except the concept of cow tipping/car tipping I found quite intriguing.  We'll see what this thing turns into; hopefully I'll update it with some regularity. :)