Out With the New – in With the Old!
Which costs more - buying a new vehicle or fixing up the one you’ve got?
Everyone has heard about the unprecedented skyrocketing prices of used vehicles - especially trucks - over the...
The Inevitable Arrives
The inevitable usually happens - and so it has come to pass (literally) in the state of Washington, where a bill has just been passed that outlaws the sale of non-electric...
Saaaaaaaaaafety . . . in Case You Forgot
What follows is a kind of dissection of an example of the mentality that's been induced by 50-plus years of what you might call "safetyism." This preoccupation with risk-avoidance to the...
2022 Subaru Forester Wilderness
In the limbo under, it’s how low can you go.
In the Subaru Forester Wilderness, it’s how high can you go?
This new iteration of Subaru’s popular crossover wagon has as much clearance...
The AWD Crossover Conspiracy
One of the reasons it seems that all cars are increasingly the same cars is that almost all of them are crossovers, most with or offering some type of all-wheel-drive system....
Off Grid – but not in The Woods
Is it necessary to live in the Woods to live off the grid? Not at all. Or at least, not all the way.
What is the "grid," first of all?
The term refers...
Lessons of the Caddy Hacked
A long time ago, Hot Rod magazine - paper and all - published an article called Caddy Hack. It was not about anything online.
It was about taking panels off.
To see...
The Replacement for Displacement?
The Hemi V8 engine may be history - or will soon be that, tragically - but Dodge hasn’t given up on engines just yet.
A new engine - rather than another electric...
2022 Jaguar F-Pace
The thing about Jags is the most iconic ones have never been practical cars. Thank god.
They have always been beautiful cars.
The chromed leaper on the hood, for instance, being more beautiful...
Slow’s the Word
What is the common denominator that accounts for almost all bad driving? It is arguably the passivity-fearfulness that’s been drilled into so many American drivers - who were taught that “good...