2024 Toyota GR86
GM used to sell two slightly different versions of the same thing - the Pontiac Firebird and the Chevrolet Camaro. It was done that...
2025 Mazda CX70
The trend has been to install smaller engines in place of larger engines - and to charge people more for what they're not getting...
2024 Lexus GX550
When Toyota brought back the Land Cruiser this year, it no longer came standard with a V8. It now comes only with a turbo-hybridized...
2024 Volvo XC40 Recharge
Volvo used be the go-to brand for safe vehicles that lasted a long time. Then everyone else began making "safe" vehicles, chiefly because the...
2024 Mazda CX-30
Mazda's CX-30 has a couple of things going for it that most of its competitors either charge extra for - or don't offer at...
2024 VW GTI
It's the last call. The final hurrah. Call it what you will, it amounts to the same.
Right now - this year - is the...
2024 Toyota Land Cruiser
For once, a new vehicle cost less than what it used to cost. In the case of the new Toyota Land Cruiser, tens of thousands...
2024 Mini Clubman
There will soon be one less Mini - and it's the one that's not as "mini" as the ones that will remain.
It's the Clubman...
Classic Cars
Daily Driving a 40-Year-Old Car?
Many people are understandably leery about buying a new or even recently made vehicle, on the one hand because of the stuff they don't...
A Prepper’s Dilemma
Normally, it is sound policy to live below your means; to buy only that which you can afford to pay for - at the...
$32k for a 1978 Mustang II?
A measure of the appeal of new cars is how much old cars are going for. In particular, old cars that were laughed at...
The Anodyne Exotic
The most powerful - and boring - Corvette ever made is coming soon. It is an iteration of the current generic-exotic Corvette, with its...
Missing Two Strokes
There's only one kind of gas-burning engine we're allowed to have, which is a shame for reasons that go beyond the obnoxious effrontery of...
A Mustang Story
Not all the news is bad news.
Ford has not cancelled the Mustang, for instance. Nor are there plans to ruin it by turning it...
Goodbye, Camaro
Sixty years ago, Ford unveiled the Mustang - and it changed everything. Prior to 1964 - the year of the first Mustang's debut -...
Make the Conversion?
The manual transmission is being pushed off the market by the pushing of electric vehicles, which don't generally have transmissions at all (the motors...
Motorcycles
Missing Two Strokes
There's only one kind of gas-burning engine we're allowed to have, which is a shame for reasons that go beyond the obnoxious effrontery of...
When There’s no Room Left in the Garage
Getting another bike is never a problem; it's all-too-easy to get another bike. They sometimes seem to just show up, like a stray cat...
Have Bike Will Travel
If you were to distill mechanized transportation down to its core essentials, you'd end up with something like the dirt bike - or its...
Insurance Incongruity
Having to buy car insurance - motorcycle insurance, in the case at hand - is bad enough. No one ought to be forced to...
Anecdotal but Interesting
To use - or not to use - synthetic oil in engines made decades before synthetic oils were in common use . . ....
Helmet Laws
If you ride a motorcycle, "the law" - that is to say, busybody people who write them - probably requires that you wear a...
Motorcycle Clovers
Regular readers of this column already know what a Clover is. It is someone who - among other things - refuses to move over...
My Bike is Like an EV
I was out riding my motorcycle the other day and it occurred to me - as I glanced at the odometer, which you do...
Some More About the Before Time
This look-in-the-rearview (here's another) may become part of series of remembrances about what ordinary life was like in America when America was still a...
Latest Radio: Bryan Hyde Show 09/10/2024
Here's the audio of this week's talk with Bryan Hyde, host of the Bryan Hyde Show in Idaho. We talked about tonight's debate and...
An Interesting Inversion . . .
VW's TDI diesel-powered cars - which you're not allowed to buy any longer - routinely exceeded the mileage figures touted by VW and the...
More About VW’s Situation
Some additional thoughts about the corner VW has painted itself into. This includes the decision to "invest" in a device that kinda-sorta looks like...
Some Advice For The Young
One of the first things I didn't do that many of my friends did just after we graduated from college was buy a new...
And What’s Next?
Volvo is the latest automaker to back away from its prior commitment to offer nothing for sale that is not a battery powered device...
More Fake and Gay?
Tim Walz badly wants people to see him as a regular American - as opposed to an American who badly wants to transform America...
Diaper Report: 07/09/2024
It turns out that not only do "masks" not work - to "stop the spread" of anything besides fear, that is.
They also get people...
Cycles
Why Helmet Laws are Silly and Tyrannical
I wanted to remember what it was like to live in a free country - remember when people used to say that? - so...
When There’s no Room Left in the Garage
Getting another bike is never a problem; it's all-too-easy to get another bike. They sometimes seem to just show up, like a stray cat...
Have Bike Will Travel
If you were to distill mechanized transportation down to its core essentials, you'd end up with something like the dirt bike - or its...
Insurance Incongruity
Having to buy car insurance - motorcycle insurance, in the case at hand - is bad enough. No one ought to be forced to...
Mad Max on Two Wheels
I am often asked what I think is the best kind of car to own if things get really bad. I think the best...
Anecdotal but Interesting
To use - or not to use - synthetic oil in engines made decades before synthetic oils were in common use . . ....
They’re Coming for Bikes Next . . .
Most people who ride motorcycles do it because they want to. A motorcycle is - usually - not the primary instrument of transportation. It...
A Casualty of Revenue Collecting
They say "speed kills." Here is a case-in-point.
A cop driving at very high speed struck and killed a motorcycle rider who had the bad...
New Car Reviews
2024 Toyota GR86
GM used to sell two slightly different versions of the same thing - the Pontiac Firebird and the Chevrolet Camaro. It was done that...
2025 Mazda CX70
The trend has been to install smaller engines in place of larger engines - and to charge people more for what they're not getting...
2024 Lexus GX550
When Toyota brought back the Land Cruiser this year, it no longer came standard with a V8. It now comes only with a turbo-hybridized...
2024 Volvo XC40 Recharge
Volvo used be the go-to brand for safe vehicles that lasted a long time. Then everyone else began making "safe" vehicles, chiefly because the...
2024 Mazda CX-30
Mazda's CX-30 has a couple of things going for it that most of its competitors either charge extra for - or don't offer at...
2024 VW GTI
It's the last call. The final hurrah. Call it what you will, it amounts to the same.
Right now - this year - is the...
2024 Toyota Land Cruiser
For once, a new vehicle cost less than what it used to cost. In the case of the new Toyota Land Cruiser, tens of thousands...
2024 Mini Clubman
There will soon be one less Mini - and it's the one that's not as "mini" as the ones that will remain.
It's the Clubman...
Some More About the Before Time
This look-in-the-rearview (here's another) may become part of series of remembrances about what ordinary life was like in America when America was still a...
Latest Radio: Bryan Hyde Show 09/10/2024
Here's the audio of this week's talk with Bryan Hyde, host of the Bryan Hyde Show in Idaho. We talked about tonight's debate and...
An Interesting Inversion . . .
VW's TDI diesel-powered cars - which you're not allowed to buy any longer - routinely exceeded the mileage figures touted by VW and the...
