Some New Car Things to Know
The Uncle-ized car (which is all new cars) has some “features” you may want to consider carefully before you buy in. Features that could hit you with cost - and hassles...
Help For Elon
Will Elon Musk’s SolarCity prove to be the next Solyndra?
Or is it that already?
Solyndra touted its “innovative” tubular solar panels, which allegedly outperformed conventional flat panels. There were cheers and hosannas,...
Why I Like The Donald and May Even Vote for Him
Voting amounts to answering that question about whether you’ve stopped beating your wife.
There’s no winning. Best to keep your mouth shut.
But - god help me - I may just vote for...
2016 GMC Canyon Diesel
The easiest way to make a sale is to have something to sell that people want but no one else is selling.
Like a diesel pick-up truck, for instance.
There are very few...
Uncle’s Roads…
When you’re a Libertarian, you get challenged a lot to conjure what things would be like absent Uncle’s interventions.
For example, roads.
The contra argument - against privately built and managed roads -...
Magnetic Stickers!
The new EPautos magnetic (and bigger) stickers will be here any day now! These are 4x4 and - because they are magnetic - you'll be able to transfer them from vehicle...
The Crony Capitalist King
If Elon Musk’s various projects are so Iron Man fabulous, why do they all need so much government “help”? Shouldn’t Tesla - and Solar City and SpaceX - be able to...
2016 Toyota Camry Hybrid
It is no easy thing going from a 500 horsepower Challenger R/T to a no-horsepower Toyota Camry hybrid.
Well, ok, that's not fair. The Camry hybrid does have horsepower. But only about...
The Crush
Hidden in VW’s announcement yesterday that it was “setting aside” nearly $9 billion to buy back - and destroy - about half a million diesel-powered cars convicted of “cheating” Uncle’s emissions...
The Uncle-ized Car
What’s the cost of Uncle when it comes to our cars? How much have his various fatwas added to the MSRP?
One way to add it all up is to compare a...