What Does Your Car’s Warranty Actually “Cover”?
Most new vehicles come with several warranties.
The one most people think of first is the new car "bumper to bumper" (or "basic") warranty. It covers just about everything except routine maintenance items...
FrankenHarley
For about a month now, I have been trying - like Dr. Frankenstein - to breath life into something inert: The cobbled-together corpse of what was - once - a 1980 Harley Davidson...
The V2V Bee Hive
Ayn Rand, for all her quirks, had some solid things to say. One of these was that civilization exists - or declines - in proportion to privacy. The less privacy you’ve...
Turbine Cars and Electric Cars
The failure of Chrysler’s turbine cars - back in the ‘60s - gives us a parallel, historical case study about why electric cars have failed today.
And yes, they have failed.
Else it would...
2012 Nissan Juke
Lots of spunky compact runabouts out there. The inexpensive ones, though - like the $14k-ish to start Kia Soul - are usually on the slow-ish side. And the ones that aren't...
2018 VW Tiguan
The hardest cars to write about - and to buy - are crossover SUVs. Which to pick? What to say? So many . . . so alike.
It's like shopping for refrigerators.
VW's...
Operational Neurasthenia
It’s reasonable to adjust speed for conditions - snow, for instance. But what about drivers who drop their speed because it might snow later?
Road (and school) closings, not because it is...
The Wolf Pack
The other night I was watching a debate on TV about the federal budget debt. Each one of the panelists spoke in terms of "we." We need to do this or...
You Won’t Get Much Charge Out of This . . .
Imagine if every gas station had to be physically connected, via pipeline, to a refinery - and you will begin to see the improbability of their electric vehicle equivalents. And then...
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...