This month, when you purchase any new ride from Checkered Flag Scion, you?ll also be heading home with a brand new widescreen LG HDTV!  Talk about a touchdown!

Get in today to grab yours before Sunday?s big game.  Doors open at 9am weekdays and noon on Sunday. 

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Depending on who you talk to you will get a different answer about the overall success in 2012 of the Hybrid segment of car sales.  There are a few facts that stand out in the argument, and that is really what my focus has always been on. 



Fact 1:  The US car market seems to be improving nicely!  Yay!  I am…

I feel strongly about the many DOT Distracted Driving Initiatives and support anything that makes driving safer.  These initiatives have come under the leadership of the U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood.  He has spearheaded the cause and has made many strides at educating people on the importance of driving while staying focused on the road.  He also brought to everyone?s attention the dangers that come with texting while driving.

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Get ready to make some wishes, Checkered Flag Toyota fans!  This Super Bowl Sunday, you?ll meet the new RAV4 genie.



If you are unable to view the RAV4 genie Super Bowl ad on this page, choose the following link and scroll down to this article.  Link:   Toyota RAV4 Super Bowl ad

If you haven?t heard, we?ve got the new…

Driving in Hampton Roads, we sometimes get stuck behind some pretty awful things in traffic.  Not every area has such a concentration of pig farms and potholes.  But, when you?re driving a Hyundai Sonata Turbo, at least you have a way out. 



If you are unable to view the Hyundai Super Bowl ad on this page, choose the following link and scroll…

Okay, Checkered Flag fans, save the date!

Here's another opportunity to do some good for our community, while enjoying a delicious meal.



Printable flyer will be available on Checkered Flag.com shortly.  Monetary contributions are being accepted presently through Girls on the run Solemates.

Remember, they will be accepting the flyers for take-out orders, as well. 

If you would…

I have always thought that Wind Power turbines were cool.  Driving cross country and seeing a landscape dotted with them is really pretty.  What is even prettier about them is how they help the environment.  Honda has made changes to their Transmission Plant in Russells Point, OH to become the first auto manufacturing facility to operate substantially off of turbines. 

Wind Turbines…

Wow!  Some articles that you read make you wonder about the sanity of people around the world.  Ireland and one such recent article is just the type that makes me do a double take. 

The topic of the article-wait for it-was allowing some people to drive while only being ?A little drunk?.  Now don?t start the panic for all…

I love the color and finish that are on both of my household vehicle, the Honda Pilot and Toyota Camry.  I want to keep them looking as new as I can, for as longs as I can.  I feel that if they start to look dingy, that I will want to go buy a new car to replace the old, and…

Hampton Roads has really run the whole gamut of weather situations in the last few weeks.  We have had summer like conditions followed very shortly by freezing temperatures and snow.  Now we have to get ready for another-Freezing rain. 

With all this weather craziness, we should be ready for locusts soon.  read more