Cold Weather Crutches
You think it's hard on you when it's 10 degrees outside?
Think about your car.
You may feel cold. Your car is cold. If it's 10 degrees outside, that's the temperature of your...
Parts isn’t Parts . . . Anymore
What good is a car that could last for 20 years without major work if the minor parts you need to keep it running become unavailable after as little as ten...
What That IIHS Report Really Meant….
Have you read this new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety report about the crashworthiness of "SUVs"? Apparently, not many of the reporters who've been covering it have. More likely, they just...
A Big Got Damned Difference
A reader - a Libertarian friend - chastises me for supporting Trump over Hillary; for supporting any candidate who isn't a principled Libertarian. I thought some of you might be interested...
1986-1993 Cadillac Allante: They Got it Right … Too Late
It began with high hopes - and an audacious plan. Unfortunately, it belly-flopped badly... .
By the mid-1980s, Cadillac was still the "standard of the world" - if by "the world" one meant...
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...
Misinformation
We hear a lot about what is styled “misinformation.”
It is one of those words meant to slam shut the door on information. The talking about stuff, so as to know -...
2011-’12 Saab 9-5: Not The Same-Old Same-Old
If you buy a new Saab 9-5, you will be one of 806 people in the U.S. (so far, as of this writing in late 2011) to own one.
That means only...
What We Own . . .
It’s interesting that the only things we can say we truly own we have no legal title to.
The clothes I am wearing, for instance. They are fully, meaningfully mine in that...
2022 Hyundai Sonata
Does anyone still make mid-sized family sedans? Haven’t they all been cancelled - in favor of crossovers?
Most of them, yes. Including - most recently - the Mazda6 sedan, which Mazda announced...