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The Wheel Turns. . . and Orange Fails

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It appears that what some expected to happen is happening. The "mainstream" media is beginning to turn on the Orange Man. Well, that's not it exactly. The "mainstream" media - which has a...

Lightning Strikes

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Remember the Things telling us that electric vehicles would become more affordable? Ford just told us that its electric half-ton truck, the F-150 Lightning, will become 17 percent more expensive. The...

This Thing of Theirs

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The old school Italian mafia as portrayed in The Godfather movies had some admirable attributes, among them its rule of omerta - or silence. If you were in the mafia, you...

The GPS Granny Nanny

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America is slowing down. How long before it stops entirely? Literally stops? A reader who is a commercial driver wrote to tell me about how his work vehicle is monitored and controlled via...

Our Bourbons

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There isn't a single EV available in this country that costs less than $40,000 that can go more than about 250 miles on a charge. This makes them impractical for people...

2019 Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid

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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...

A New Excuse to Harrass and Collect

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Orwell described things that seemed a bit much in his novel, 1984. Like, as a for-instance, the Telescreen-prompted mandatory morning calisthenics - physical jerks - the novel’s main character, Winston Smith,...

Automotive Icon: De Tomaso Pantera, 1971-1993

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Say Pantera - and most people think '70s. Maybe '80s. Not 1993. But they made them all the way into the early Clinton years. Not many. But as late as '93, you could still buy...

The Stat That Says What 96 Percent Won’t Admit

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Do you know what percentage of EV owners own only an EV? About 4 percent. The rest - about 96 percent - own another vehicle that isn't a battery powered device. What does...

Obergruppenfuhrer AGWs

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Here's news coverage from a local Vegas, NV ABC affiliate about the former Obergruppenfuhrer (note his four stars and "campaign" ribbons) and his stellvertreter (deputy) who were both fired after an internal...
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