2014 Lexus GS350 F Sport
Lexus was originally - and for the most part has remained - a brand devoted primarily to luxury. To poshness, softness, quietude and comfort. ES, RX, LS. These have been the...
Retro review: 1983 Honda Nighthawk CB550
What makes a bike memorable?
That it's fast? Maybe - but not necessarily. A buddy of mine owned a first-year Honda Interceptor VFR1000. The whir of gear driven cams - and 125...
The Window’s Closing
2014 is the year we turned a historically significant corner. The self-driving car is officially in the works now; it is no longer speculative fiction.
In a very real way, self-driving cars...
Retro Review: 1980-’81 Z28 Camaro
Arguably, the best second-generation Z28s were the first - and the last.
While the Z's sister car - Pontiac's Trans-Am - rose to the occasion several times during the lowest points of...
The Affordable Coffee Act
I mean, why not?
If government - using its magical powers - can make health care "affordable" why not make everything people need (and hell, everything they want) affordable?
It's a little mean-spirited...
Steam Locomotives and Cars
There is a museum in my town devoted to the photography of O. Winston Link (see here). He was fascinated by steam locomotives and spent years - the declining years of...
2014 Toyota Tundra
One area where the Japanese have not been able to eat the proverbial lunch of Detroit's Big Three has been full-size pick-ups. To date, none of the Japanese 1500s have been...
Mouse Makes Home in KL250 Air Box
Just before "Winter Storm Pax" (someone hand me a ball peen hammer so I can bash in the skull of the cretin who came up with the idea of giving a...
Throw Winter in The Woods
I am near my breaking point. Today may just push me beyond it. A foot of got-damned frozen white shit is headed this way. It is 15 degrees outside.
Again.
How long, Oh...
2014 BMW X5
When you've got a good thing going - and BMW's X5 has been going good for almost 15 years - you don't mess with it. Not fundamentally. Keep what's good -...