The Motor Law
It’s strange to find myself an uncle, with a country place - and an Orange Barchetta out in the garage.
My 1976 Trans-Am.
It is a relic from the ”better, vanished time” Rush...
The Speeding Exemption
In Orwell’s other book - Animal Farm - we read about a mutiny against the farmer by the livestock, who draw up a kind of Declaration of Rights premised on the...
2019 Toyota Sienna
Minivans used to be hugely popular because they were hugely practical. Which may explain why minivans have become less popular than they used to be.
Because they are very curiously less practical...
Teslian eFleas
When corporations get into bed with government, it’s us who get the fleas. Obamacare, for instance.
Big Med plus Big Government.
Sometimes, you can't actually see the fleas. But they're there, just the...
Whatever Happened to The Ricers?
The ‘90s/early 2000s was the last time messing with cars was a common thing among teens and 20s. These were the “ricers” and “tuners” - kids who worked on mostly Japanese stuff,...
2019 Jeep Compass
Most crossover SUVs can't really cross over very much.
They look like rugged, off-road-ready SUVs, but they're really just high-riding cars, with light-duty AWD (usually optional) and not much more off-road...
The Great Winnowing
GM’s announcement the other day that it will no longer make cars - or rather, just a few - follows Ford’s previous announcement along the same lines.
Chevy will lose more than...
GM Kills the Electric Car . . .
If electric cars are such a grand idea, why is GM killing off the Chevy Volt? It’s the one electric car that actually did make some practical sense, at least.
400-plus miles...
Fuel Riots – The Paris Preview
They're rioting in France over the government's imposition of artificial fuel scarcity.
There's no actual shortage; the country - the world - is swimming in fuel, courtesy of new discoveries and new...
2019 Kia Stinger
If you want real Coke, you have to go to Mexico. Well, you have to get it from Mexico. That’s the only Coke still made with sugar rather than high fructose...