Don’t Just Check the Air . . .
For decades, people have been advised to regularly check/make sure their vehicle's tires haven't lost air - especially after the mid-1990s-era Firestone tire/Ford Explorer rollover fiasco.
The Explorer of that era wasn't...
Diaper Report: 07/08/2024
It has been announced that Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman - a title fit for our times - has come down with "COVID." This is interesting given that the man has...
A Reader Writes . . .
James writes - response to my recent column about the End of Car Buying:
The kids at my gym, all in new camaros and chargers. Or the young girls in new honda...
The Safety Fallacy
It wasn't the government that made cars safer to drive. It was the free market that made them less likely to crash.
Which made them safer to drive. As opposed to "safer"...
Small is Big (Again)
Huge (and expensive) trucks and SUVs have for many years been the best-selling vehicles on the market. But that may be changing - in part because they are so huge (and...
2024 Volvo S60
It's hard to sell what not enough people are aware is for sale - and that may be part of the reason why Volvo's S60 sedan will soon no longer be...
The Mafia Strikes Back
Drivers in Virginia will soon be paying more for car insurance - because they no longer have the option to pay the state less, instead. Naturally, that means they'll be paying...
The End of Car Buying
It takes a while, sometimes, for a term or phrase in common usage to outlive its usefulness - because it no longer means what it once did. Like "gay," for instance...
Title Washing
My friend Bill Meyer, who is the host of The Bill Meyer Show (KMED FM in Medford, OR) told me a story the other day about one of his show's listeners...
Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show/KMED FM 07/04/2024
Here's the audio of this week's Wheels Up!segment with Bill Meyer over at KMED FM in Medford, Oregon. We talked about title washing, the Farce of July and the Cadillac CT4,...