Trump’s Tariff Turducken
Trump is getting heat for his threat to impose tariffs on "imported" cars in order to help American car companies. But what about all the "American" cars built outside America?
And what...
2018 BMW M550i
What’s better than a BMW 5 Series with an M on the trunk lid and a twin-turbo V8 under its hood?
How about two 5 Series Ms?
There’s the 600 hp M5 -...
Latent Power
How good do we have it?
If the measure of that is the power and performance delivered by the average new car, the answer has to be: Pretty damned good.
Four cylinder-powered family-haulers...
Auto Cop
An interesting unasked question has been raised by Ford’s announcement that it is developing a cop-less cop car. That is, an automated and AI cop car that would sneak itself behind...
Has the Bubble Popped?
How much longer it can go on? How long, that is, can the irrational exuberance which has characterized the market for new cars go on?
Each year, new cars become less and less affordable...
2018 Hyundai Sante Fe
Unlike other crossover SUVs, the Hyundai Sante Fe comes more than one way.
Shorter - or longer.
Two rows - or three.
It also comes with more than one engine - your pic of...
Nonconsensual Government
Most people agree that sex ought to be consensual.
Put another way, they think that no one should be forced to have sex against their will. And that if someone engages in...
2018 BMW X3
Two things are getting hard to find in a compact crossover - in new cars, generally: six cylinder engines - and a rear-drive-based layout.
The BMW X3 still has both.
It hasn't gone...
Shakespeare Had it Wrong
Shakespeare wrote about killing all the lawyers as the first order of business. Their clients are sometimes just as worthy candidates.
David Doar, for instance. He is demanding - through his lawyers...
Redundancy
Every motorcycle has more than one way to turn the engine off.
There is a simple, mechanical switch - in addition to the keyed ignition switch - that one can use to...