2011 Volkswagen Golf

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It's easy to like the VW Golf. On the one hand, it's an economy car - with an available turbo-diesel engine that can return more...

New Cop Cars Blend Into The Crowd

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For decades, it has been pretty easy to visually pick out cop cars from the crowd. Even without a radar detector, alert drivers knew to...

2011 Ford Mustang

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In the '80s (and through the early '90s) Ford's 5.0 "high output" V-8 led the latter-day muscle car resurgence. Then around 1994, Ford dropped...

9/11 Questions…

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There are many entirely legitimate questions about what happened on 9/11 left unanswered: * Why is there no video of the plane that hit the...

2010 MazdaSpeed3

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John DeLorean - the father of the Pontiac GTO - is credited with having invented the muscle car concept. Take an affordable/budget-oriented "normal" car,...

Big Brother Eyeballing Your License Plate?

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Soon, cops may not even have to pull you over to know almost everything about you - and keep it on file, too. Motorola -...

2011 Honda CR-Z Hybrid

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Life is often about compromises - and so is the new CR-Z coupe from Honda. It's the first "sporty" (decent acceleration and handling; available six-speed...

Don’t Want to “Buckle-up for Safety?”

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Let's say you prefer (for whatever reason) not to "buckle up" when you drive. Yes, I know that seat belts save lives - and that...

How Often Have You Been Shiny Side Down?

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A recent poll in Superbike magazine asked the question, "How many times have you crashed/been knocked off in the past three years?" The results of...

Hands Off My Clunker!

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I'll be keeping my "clunker" - a 1998 Nissan Frontier with about 120,000 miles on it - until the proverbial wheels finally fall off...