SkyDiving Without a Parachute
Given how expensive traffic tickets are, it’s amazing so many people won’t buy a good radar detector. Unlike the car you’re driving, it actually is an investment - and not just...
2012 Volvo C30 Polestar
Volvo translates from the Swedish (roughly) as I roll. Not rock and roll. The company is known for building conservative, sensible shoes cars - not saucy cars.
So what to make of...
2018 VW GTI
The VW GTI hatchback sedan doesn't look like a Corvette, but it reminds me of one.
Not a new one.
My high school buddy’s 1978 L-82 coupe
The GTI has a 220 hp engine....
2019 Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid
What does it take to outdo the Prius at hybridness?
Hyundai - and the Ioniq hybrid.
By just about every metric other than who got there first, the Hyundai is the pick of...
2021 VW Atlas
How much difference does three feet - and 50 years - make?
It’s the difference between a 1970 VW Beetle - that could carry four people, two of them extremely uncomfortably and...
Retro Review: 1983-1984 Hurst Olds and 1985–1988 442
Oldsmobile had a long and distinguished history—and suffered a slow, painful death.
The process of mortification began in the early 1980s, when General Motors gutted the formerly independent engineering departments of each...
A Millennial Moment
There is something worse than a generation gap. There is a worldview gap.
My generation - Generation X - was the last pre-computer generation and the last generation to reach adulthood before...
Some Perspective. . .
The worst mass-killing at an elementary school didn't occur last week - and it didn't involve a gun.
On May 8, 1927, 55-year-old Andrew Kehoe detonated multiple homemade bombs at the Bath...
2016 Hyundai Tucson
Why make another of what everyone else is making - and hope it'll sell?
Wouldn't it be smarter to offer something no one else is making instead?
That would probably sell.
This new Hyundai...
Highways are Racist
Now highways are racist - and must be cancelled.
So saith the new Oberbefehlshaber der Transport - Pete Buttigieg. Whose bona fides to hold this office are purely political. Hiring him for...