2017 Lexus NX300h
Hybrids have become a harder sell - because gas has become an easier buy.
At $4 a gallon (and sweating the possibility of $5 or $6 a gallon) spending an extra $5,000 on...
What it Costs Us
What just happened (Friday) tells us much about what Trump must do on Monday.
Thirty thousand people just lost their jobs - as opposed to the not one person actually harmed by...
Did I Say Something?
You've probably heard people talk about the "Quadrabog" carburetor. Runs like stink, then falls flat on its face - usually because someone screwed up the adjustment of the spring tension that...
And Now Cummins. . .
It takes a lot for a major car company or engine manufacturer to deliberately circumvent a regulatory fatwa. As policy. Not a "rogue engineer." The entire engineering department; the upstairs bosses... everyone...
Happy News!
Ding dong the dick is dead.
Clarence Ditlow - styled as the "foremost advocate of automotive safety" (italics added, bear with) by The New York Times - is gone.
Finally.
While it is bad...
Chrysler Kaput
Fiat has put a hit out on Chrysler. Kissed both cheeks - then one right on the lips.
Tonight, you sleep with the fishes.
Well, maybe not tonight.
But about three years from now.
2020.
It...
2017 VW Passat
Last year, VW nixed the so-so-fuel-efficient (but simple and inexpensive) 2.5 liter in-line five that used to be the Passat's standard engine in favor of a slightly more fuel-efficient (but more...
Back in The Woods
I'm back home from Arizona and wanted to put out a quick "thank you" to everyone here for understanding about me being a little scarce the past few days. And for...
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...