The Real Killers
Back in the ‘90s, a movie came out accusing GM of killing the electric car. The movie was wrong. The real killer wasn’t GM.
It was a tag team of the market...
Jaguar Without Jaguarness
Jaguar is the latest premium brand - others include Porsche, BMW and Mercedes - to give the electric car tar baby a two-armed hug.
Design chief Ian Callum says he has probably...
Always On High Beams
High beams used to be usually off. You turned them on if you needed them - which wasn’t usually.
That’s about to be turned on its head if a new “safety” proposal...
The Turbo Tax
You’ve heard the saying, your mileage may vary?
Well, there’s a new variable you ought to take into account when you go shopping for a new car. You might call it the...
Pot Glasnost – or Not?
If Republicans want to avoid losing control of the House - and possibly more - a few weeks from now, they will need more than just Republican votes.
But how to get those critical...
The EV Amortization Problem
You can amortize the cost of almost any car . . if it's not an electric car.
Gas (and even more so, diesel) engined cars will usually run reliable and without major expense...
The Electric Surtax
Porsches have never been inexpensive - but they’re about to become more so. You could call it the electric surtax - because that’s what it amounts to.
And it's probably going to...
Less Gas in Your “Gas”
"Gas" is about to become another 5 percent less so.
President Trump just issued a fuhrerbefehl - a Fuhrer Order, as it was styled back in you-know-where, by you-know-who - directing the...
Big Truck . . . Little Engine
Putting a four cylinder engine in a full-size truck is kind of like taking the alcohol out of beer. It can be done.
But why do it?
There’s no obvious advantage to doing...
FacePlant Book and Twatter Ban More Anti-Collectivist Sites
When YouTube and the other two above banned Alex Jones, I wrote a rant about the censorship involved. I got mail from readers who protested that it was not censorship because...