Reader Question: Saaaaaaafety Seats?
Heres' the latest reader question, along with my reply!
Tom asks: What's the deal with kid car seats? Is it actually for safety, or to get people to obey? What's really behind...
Rats and Mice
What's the difference between a mouse - and a rat? If you know cars, you know the answer. If not, here it is - in case you might be interested:
A mouse...
2023 Toyota Sequoia
Until just now, the Toyota Sequoia - being a big SUV - has always come standard with a big V8. The just-redesigned Sequoia no longer offers one. But it offers some other...
If You Can’t Find a Place to Park . . .
There's no point driving into the city if there's no place to park. It's also hard to leave the city - in a car - if you can't keep one there. And...
Orange Man and Franco
Francisco Franco - the caudillo of Spain - understood that you cannot reason with communists. You cannot persuade or mollify them. You can only stop them.
And he did.
It will probably take...
Options
The nice thing about buffets is you get to pick what you want and how much of it. Buying a car was once a lot like that.
The car, itself, was just...
The Enablers
It's true the government is pushing EVs - even harder than it did the "vaccines." And it's true the car companies have - with a couple of notable exceptions - joined...
Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show/KMED 05/18/2023
Here's the audio of this week's Wheels Up! segment with Bill Meyer over at KMED FM in Oregon. We talked about the parenting device - i.e., the electric car - and...
Interaction Temporarily Paused
The 2023 VW ID.4 I'm test driving this week - more about that here - isn't just an electric car.
It is a parenting car.
It will "temporarily pause" your ability to change the...
Latest Radio: Car Talk With Henry Payne 05/17/2023
Here's the audio of my appearance (over the weekend) on my friend Henry Payne's Car Talk radio show up in Detroit. We talked about the elitism that's at the heart of...