Audi Diesel Buyback Update
PARIS/FRANKFURT -- Volkswagen AG has reached an agreement with U.S. environmental ayatollahs to "fix" or buy back around 80,000 Audi, VW and Porsche vehicles powered by "cheating" 3.0-liter diesel engines.
Under an accord...
Latest Reader Questions (October 15, 2017)
Here are the latest reader questions, along with my replies:
Chris asks: Just read Automotive Atrocities and Road Hogs - loved them, and will rant about them to anyone who will listen. Went...
Reader Question: Vehicle “Emissions”?
Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply!
Leslie asks: I have listened to you several times on Infowars. I commented on a Facebook post that fuel burning cars are over...
Reader Question: AWD Coupling?
Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply!
Josh asks: Do FWD based AWD have a center differential or a viscous coupling system, because I thought that only RWD based AWDs...
Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show/KMED 10/0/2023
Here's the audio of this week's Wheels Up! segment with my friend Bill Meyer over at KMED FM in Medford, Oregon!
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Is Your Car Cop Bait?
Racial profiling is a law-enforcement no-no, but "automotive profiling" is a going concern in every state across the land.
Drive a bright-colored car, or an obviously sporty/performance car, and you dramatically increase...
A “Permit” to Play Soccer
Here's video from Roanoke, TX of a pair of AGWs apparently harassing a girl for playing soccer in a public park without a permit:
Luckily, other people were present and began to...
No Tickets for Red-Light-Running Johnny Cabs
When you fail to notice the light is red - and a cop sees you fail to notice it - the cop will probably chase you down and hand you a...
Why Vote?
Or, the buoyancy of excrement: A great column by Fred Reed...
Vote? Why? What candidate in the quadrennial resurrection of the Mickey Mouse club wants to do anthing that I want done?
I...
Automotive Icon: De Tomaso Pantera, 1971-1993
Say Pantera - and most people think '70s. Maybe '80s.
Not 1993.
But they made them all the way into the early Clinton years. Not many. But as late as '93, you could still buy...