1986-1993 Cadillac Allante: They Got it Right … Too Late
It began with high hopes - and an audacious plan. Unfortunately, it belly-flopped badly... .
By the mid-1980s, Cadillac was still the "standard of the world" - if by "the world" one meant...
Radio Interviews – Done (and Pending)
Here's a link to my appearance on Bill Meyer's show the other day:
Tomorrow Morning (Saturday) I'll be live on WYOO in Panama City, Florida - with Dayton Vause.
I'm still working on...
Back Door For “Real” ID
You may have thought - hoped - you could dodge the creepy "real" ID driver's license the feds have been pushing since the terrorists who hate us for our freedoms gave...
The Littlest Triple
Weird little bikes are hard to find new. A bleak homogeneity has settled in. Small bikes are safe bikes; conventionally styled, with mild engines. Made, in brief, for beginners. To be...
Third Tier Classics (Get ‘Em While You Still Can)
Some of you may have caught my recent article about the almost muscle cars of the mid-late 1970s (see here, if not). Cars like the Chevy Monza (and its Buick/Pontiac/Oldsmobile-badged twins),...
Why Are Today’s Diesels Only So-So Economical . . . and So Expensive?
There's something weird and cruel about the fact that diesel engines are - for the most part - for the affluent-only. You'd think it'd be the reverse.
And it is ... in...
2015 Audi Q5 TDI
In the U.S., diesels are sold at least as much on the strength of their performance as their economy - the reverse of the usual dynamic.
Which explains why they are almost exclusively...
Equal Time For Tesla?
Will I, as an online car colonoscopist, be forced by the FCC to give "equal time" to people outraged by my doubleplusungood articles about Tesla and electric cars generally? Will men...
The Almost Muscle Car: Chevy Monza, 1975-1980
The '70s (and early '80s) were Weird Years for the car industry. The muscle car era of the '60s was fading fast, but the fumes still lingered… what would come next?...
Blame Nixon
The American automobile industry has loved Uncle long time now. But it was not always so - at least, not to the extent we've come to accept as normal. There was a...