The Color of Trouble
Red means stop and green means go - but what are the colors under the hood of your car trying to tell you?
* Engine oil -
Fresh oil is usually light to...
On the Merits of Ugly Cars
Remember that song about making an ugly woman your wife so as to be happy for the rest of your life? It applies to cars just as much.
Like the pretty girls, everyone...
Saluta il Duce!
I have my Fez ready.
There is some satisfaction to be gained from Trump's victory last night. At least we can savor the carpet-chewing rage of the Pants Suited One. It must...
More Government “Help” For Electric Turduckens
One of the many problems with electric cars is that places to “refuel” them are neither convenient nor common. You can plug in at home, but that’s slow (it takes hours...
2017 Lexus GS450h
How much is a (roughly) 10 MPG improvement worth to you?
How about $12,940?
That's the price spread between the hybrid GS450h and the non-hybrid (but otherwise pretty much the same) GS350.
$63,635 vs....
Good Names… Bad Cars
The good thing about a bad car name is you've got no expectations. Not much to live up to - and so, little to disappoint you.
Achieva, for instance.
But wasting a good...
Outcome Roulette
When the choices presented are the electric chair or the gas chamber it's hard to gin up much enthusiasm for the choosing.
But we have to choose, eh?
Then again, there is a...
And Then They Came For the Big Rigs
No one appears to have noticed this yet. But they will.
Not on the road - or at the car dealership.
At the supermarket.
For openers.
Uncle is “proposing” a “program” (the soft-sell language hides...
More Electric Car Kool Aid
I had planned to review the new Chevy Bolt electric car based on a test drive - but GM has rescinded my privileges for reasons knownst only to them but strongly...
2017 Subaru Outback
All-wheel-drive is very popular. But all-wheel-drive-equipped wagons are fairly hard to find.
They are harder to find for about $25k to start.
Impossible to find with AWD standard for about $25k to start...