2012 Mazda Miata: The Perfect Car?
The Mazda Miata is - apparently - the perfect car.
Or at the very least, an ageless and endlessly appealing car.
It is still selling well, despite no major changes in several...
They’re Still Doing It . . .
It's not enough, apparently, to sell you just the car. There is also the hard sell, once you've bought the car. The trying to get you to buy what you don't...
Best Radar Detector Out There
I got asked the the other day which radar detector I consider the pick of the litter. It's the Valentine 1 - and here's why I like it:
* Directional threat indicators...
The Car World Coming
Elections have consequences, especially this one.
A decision has been made - never mind who made it - to make owning and driving a car much more expensive in the very near...
Living History
We are living history now. The history of early Soviet Russia - and the other place, of course.
People cowed by fear - just trying to keep their heads down and not...
It Works . . . Even if it Needs Work
Old cars - those made when cars were still mostly mechanical things - would sometimes just stop working. Just as modern, electronically encrusted cars sometimes also stop working. The difference is...
Ethanol Assault
Remember those '80s-era PSAs that warned, "this is your brain on drugs" - cue video of an egg frying in a pan? Well, here's your old car's engine on ethanol.
I...
Expect More . . . And then, Less
If you had any doubts about what this is all about, here's a news item to dispel them:
The Biden Thing has just decreed that truck drivers coming from Mexico - and...
The Automotive Low Flush Toilet
I wish I could take credit for this one, but I can’t. However, I will shamelessly use it - and credit the reader (Jim H) who made the analogy:
Auto-stop/start systems -...
2022 BMW 4 Series Soft-Top
Retractable hardtops have their virtues - the chief one being that when the top isn’t retracted, you have a solid roof over your head. Also over what’s in your car. It...