2019 Subaru Ascent
Its easier to sell what no one else does - but harder to make a sale when you haven’t got what everyone else has.
Subaru...
2018 Toyota Camry
The Camry - America’s best-selling car for the past 15 years - has a reputation for being conservative.
But the 2018 Camry is a pretty...
2018 Mercedes S63 AMG
Cars - like life - are about compromises. You can drink a lot beer, eat a lot of Chinese takeout - or look good...
2018 Ford Focus
I often envy the original gangsters - guys like Brock Yates, for instance. He invented the affectionate term, shitbox. Or - going back even...
2018 Mercedes GLC350e
Maybe you like the idea of driving an electric car - but not the idea of worrying about how far you can drive before...
2019 Ford Fusion Energi
How much are you willing to spend on a car in order to avoid spending money on gas?
This is the question that rarely gets...
2019 VW Jetta
What would Rocky have been without his ability to take a punch? Probably on the mat - with Mr. T doing a victory dance...
2018 Chrysler 300
The B52 bomber has been around a long time. Most of them are older than the pilots who fly them. This tells you something...
2018 BMW 640i GT
American car buyers, for whatever reason, generally do not like station wagons. This is why you don’t see many new station wagons - especially...
2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk
There is something wrong with the Dodge Challenger (and Charger) Hellcat. Not the 707 horsepower under their hoods.
There can be nothing wrong with that.
Ever.
The...
2018 Dodge Durango SRT 392
Bacon makes everything better.
So does SRT - when it comes to cars like the Challenger and Charger.
And now, SUVs.
What, after all, could be...
2018 Buick Regal Sportback
How do you make a sedan more practical without making it into something else?
Make it a hatchback sedan.
Buick calls the new Regal hatchback sedan...
Bell Bottom Blues
Bad timing is everything.
Try, for example, selling bell-bottom corduroy pants today. Oh, Behave!
In 1977, it was another matter. But it is no longer 1977....
False Flag Efficiency
One of the many cons being perpetrated upon the car-buying public is that the very small, very turbocharged four cylinder engines being served up...
Chipped Tires
Tires are supposed to leave tracks - not track us.
Someone should tell the tire companies. Who aren’t telling us about the tracking devices they’re...
Meatsacking and Solyzynitsyn
Thank the motor gods, automated car technology is nowhere near ready - because the people are.
Ready to sit and gape and text and wait....
Carrot and Stick
Reinhard Heydrich, who was the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia - formerly Czechoslovakia, until the Nazis decided it wasn’t anymore - was probably the...
The Original Mafia (and How it Begat the New One)
Maybe being forced to buy health insurance will open people’s eyes about being forced to buy car insurance - mandatory car insurance being the...
Sniffing a Scandal
They only crucified Jesus once - and that was enough (so we are told) to atone for all mankind’s sins . . . in...
Real Coke and Car Tariffs
Real Coke - the most American of sodas - comes nowadays from Mexico. I mean of course the stuff made with sugar and put...
“Shared Responsibility” Update
I am now officially an Obamacare Outlaw - the deadline for sending in my “shared responsibility” penalty/tax whatever-it-is having come - and gone. Without...
2019 Chevy Volt Takes “Only” 2.3 Hours To Charge up!
My teeth and gums are particularly sore today.
I read - and relate with sourness - that GM has achieved the miracle of reducing the...
Faceprinted
A creepy footnote to the shooting in Maryland yesterday. Apparently, the identity of the shooter - who had no ID on him, refused to...
Arrest Them All!
Here's a video taken of a mass arrest in Leon Valley, Texas. The people - among them credentialed reporters, according to news accounts -...
Sergio Stepping Down
Fiat Chrysler on Saturday announced the sudden resignation of longtime CEO Sergio Marchionne, who is stepping down due to complications from surgery.
Replacing him will...
Armed Government Workers Running Amok in NY
Here's a news feed from a CBS affiliate in New York detailing run-amok "law enforcing":
Dig the costumes these "heroes" wear. Ernst Rohm would...
Reader Question: Detecting “Heroes”
Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply!
Tom asks: I may have asked you this before, and, if so, I apologize. Police cruisers...
