It's the 7th Annual SHAMPOOCH!

Need a shampoo and style for your pooch? If so, make your way over to the 7th Annual Shampooch this Saturday. After your furry friend gets shampooed, enjoy the festivities with professional pet portraits, multiple raffles, music, food, and even a silent auction. All the benefits from this local event will go to help support five of the top rescue partners of Orange County Animal Service

 

Event: Shampooch 

Date: Saturday, September 28

Time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM 

Location: 804 East Washington St., Orlando, Fl 32801

Concept Car Spotlight: Laraki Motors Epitome Concept

The Laraki Motors Epitome Concept debuted earlier this week in Pebble Beach and is the product of the yachting industry's Abdesslam Laraki. Built from the chassis of a C6 Corvette, this vehicle contains an aggressive body style and two gas tanks, one for regular and one for octane. This beastly vehicle can put out 1,200 horsepower on gas alone and 1,750 hp using octane. While this supercar is a little out of our price range at $2 million, we can only hope that a more affordable production version may be in the companies plans for the future.

Good Eats: The Best Restaurant in Orlando

Winning the acclaimed tittle of "Best Restaurant" from Orlando Magazine, The Ravenous Pig isn't your typical southern food joint. Located in Winter Park, Florida; this groundbreaking restaurant is known for its unique twist on classic southern cooking. Using topnotch ingredients and the ability to reinvent traditional southern dishes into high-end masterpieces, this restaurant provides a carnivorous twist to fine dinning.

For more information on The Ravenous Pig, visit its website at:  http://bit.ly/13NPImn

Great American Drives: The Flordia Keys

The Florida Keys is a 113-mile drive along Highway 1 that allows road-trippers to experience the beauty of the Florida mainland and its tropical counter part, Key West, all in one journey.  This natural made wonder, allows families the opportunity to gaze upon the Gulf of Mexico on one side, and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. Your whole family will be oohing and aahing after viewing the remnants of large coral reefs covering the Upper Keys and the sandy-type accumulations of limestone grains covering the Lower Keys. Take your family on this once in a lifetime adventure, with upland forests, shoreline zones, and inland wetlands- you wont forget it.

Credit Cars Inventory Spotlight- 2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo

At Credit Cars we pride ourselves on having an extensive assortment on pre-owned vehicles, ranging from Buicks to Chevrolets. In order to help our consumers learn more about the vehicles we offer, we will be blogging about a different used model in our inventory each week. This weeks inventory spotlight is a gorgeous cherry red 2004 Monte Carlo. This stunning vehicle features a 3.8L V-6 240HP supercharger engine, including a 4-speed automatic transmission with overdrive. If that hasn't sold you, this bad boy also contains anti-lock brakes (ABS) and driveline traction control. So what are you waiting for? To find out more information on this beauty, click on the following link: http://bit.ly/17ravgg

Saving Money and Miles Per Gallon

With the addition of a slew of fuel efficient vehicles to the market, many people have started to overlook the minor details that could potentially help them save at the pump. Below, is a list of easy and free tips on how you can make your vehicle more fuel efficient without spending a dime.

1. Don't overload your vehicle. To much weight can not only put extra wear and tear on your vehicles tires, but add extra pounds to your vehicle as well. The extra pounds may not effect a larger SUV or TRUCK, but in a small COUPE or SEDAN the extra weight could add upwards of a 100lbs, causing the vehicle to exert more gas then it would normally use during a drive.
2. Road rage is not a-okay. Aggressive driving can cause your vehicle to exert more gas due to excessive speeding, sudden breaking, and rapid acceleration. While road-rage is never a good idea, the wear and tear it puts on your vehicle is just another reason to slow-down while out on the road.
3. Avoid idling.  Excessive idling cause cause your vehicle to use about a half gallon of fuel per hour. While parked, simply turn of your engine, that way you're saving fuel. Plus, it only take a few second worth of fuel to restart your vehicle, instead of the half gallon of fuel during idling. 

While these are only a few tips to help you save more money at the pump, they can help you save a hefty chuck of change on fuel during your vehicles lifetime. If these DIY tips on how to save MPG isn't your style, check out the vast array of Hybrid and EV vehicles we have to offer on our website. 

Running out of ideas for summer fun?

The dog days of summer are upon us, so instead of sitting in front of the TV why don't you take the family out for the day?  A short drive away in Ocala is the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing, home to many of Garlit's own racers.  Get out there and learn something new!

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