Insouciant Driving
There is bad driving. But insouciant driving is worse.
What's the difference?
Bad driving encompasses many things and opinions vary about them. Some people regard driving fast - or at any rate, faster...
Diaper Report 4/6/22
In the iconic 1999 Bruce Willis movie, Sixth Sense, a psychiatrist (played by Willis) counsels a child who says he can see dead people. In fact, Willis is the dead person...
The Manual KT Boundary Layer
One often reads about endangered animals, that there are only so-and-so-many of species “x” estimated to remain in the wild.
How many new vehicles available with manual transmissions remain in production? The...
From Two to One to None
One of the ways cars - and driving - are being attacked is via reducing roads. If there’s no place to drive, then you can’t drive.
The latest, most brazen manifestation of...
2022 Mitsubishi Mirage
Pete Buttigieg advises Americans sweating the cost of $4 gas to spend $40,000 (or more) on an electric car.
Mitsubishi has a better option.
How about spending about $14k - for a car...
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....