The Real Killers
Back in the ‘90s, a movie came out accusing GM of killing the electric car. The movie was wrong. The real killer wasn’t GM.
It was a tag team of the market...
Always On High Beams
High beams used to be usually off. You turned them on if you needed them - which wasn’t usually.
That’s about to be turned on its head if a new “safety” proposal...
Civilian Interaction Training
It’s not surprising that kids in government schools are taught the government’s point of view about pretty much . . . everything.
Including “behavioral expectations” when interacting with armed government workers (i.e.,...
The Turbo Tax
You’ve heard the saying, your mileage may vary?
Well, there’s a new variable you ought to take into account when you go shopping for a new car. You might call it the...
The EV Amortization Problem
You can amortize the cost of almost any car . . if it's not an electric car.
Gas (and even more so, diesel) engined cars will usually run reliable and without major expense...
New Cars and Ex-Wives . . .
Modern cars are like ex-wives. They’re not all bad. The problem is that the good is often outweighed by the bad. Which is made tragic by the fact that it didn't...
2019 VW Sportwagen
It’s no easy thing picking yourself up off the mat after getting sucker punched . . . or getting almost diesel mileage out of a gas engine.
But, VW’s trying.
The just updated 2019...
Libertarians and Tesla?
I received a letter (below) from a reader who took issue with my taking issue with electric cars generally and Tesla specifically. This reader claimed to be a Libertarian - which...
Rat Bike Cleanup!
Here's a video of "after"... the result of several days' worth of OCD scrubbing and polishing my poor ol' 1983 Honda GL650 Silverwing.
This is the one bike I've got that I'll...
The Electric Surtax
Porsches have never been inexpensive - but they’re about to become more so. You could call it the electric surtax - because that’s what it amounts to.
And it's probably going to...