Fewer VWs . . . More EVs
VW will - apparently - stop selling the mainstream, affordable version of the Golf hatchback next year, leaving only the high-performance GTI and Golf R versions on the roster. This represents...
2020 Mitsubishi EclipseCross
Given that the Mitsubishi EclipseCross is priced higher than its better-equipped rivals - models like the Subaru Crosstrek and Honda HR-V - and given that it's a bit less roomy -...
Losing Our Heads
Persecution Pantomime is now an established part of what is styled "law enforcement" in the United States.
This includes such theater as marching a dog around a vehicle to confect probable cause...
Nissan’s Nosedive … and Possibly Why
Nissan's in trouble. More trouble, maybe, than former (and frog-marched) CEO Carlos Ghosn.
Reuters reports a blanching 70 percent drop in operating profit last quarter due to plunging sales and unfavorable foreign...
The Big Plantation
Are you more likely to be injured in a car crash because you weren't wearing a seat belt - or because you were?
Both are possibilities - and sometimes, actualities.
An unbuckled driver...
Ode to the Air Cooled
No new cars - and just a dwindling handful of new motorcycles - have engines that rely on the air to cool them.
Technically, it's airflow - which washes over the exterior...
Things You Can’t Do in a New Car
New cars can do all kinds of things - even drive themselves. But there were all kinds of things you could do in the cars of the past that you can’t...
2020 VW Arteon
Top-of-the-line cars used to almost always be sedans, but that layout has fallen out of favor because of the modern sedan’s comparatively small trunk - and limited versatility. Even long-time big-sellers...
The Selectively Closed Eye of Sauron
Our sssssssssssaaaaaaaafety matters . . . but only when it suits.
No other conclusion can be drawn from the cognitive disconnect that, on the one hand, the merest assertion of potential risk...
Ex Post Fatwa’ing
One way to avoid having Big Brother ride shotgun is to buy a ride built before Big Brother came with the car - or the truck.
(Italics for a reason; bear with.)
It...