A Passing Comment Sometimes Says it All
Try to imagine a doctor who feels contempt toward his patients. Wait. We don't need to imagine anymore, do we? Well, how about a car journalist who thinks - who openly...
A Not Clover for Once
Here's a video that's proof - if it were needed - that it's not the car (or the truck) that matters. It's who's behind the wheel of the thing.
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Buying What They Can’t – or Don’t Want – to Sell
There are still at least a few affordable - and so, appealing - new cars on the market. Some with manual transmissions, like the base trim ’22 Subaru Crosstrek. Some that...
Driver Re-Education
"History," said Henry Ford, is "bunk."
What he meant by that is that the "history" they teach in government schools is largely "bunk." It is either false outright - as for example...
Reader Question: Leaking Sunroof?
Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply!
Dianne asks: I have a Toyota RAV4 with a leaking sunroof. After a heavy rain, the headliner is damp and sometimes it actually...
Counterprogramming . . .
There is a saying credited to the founder of the Jesuit order, Ignatius Loyola, about the impressionability of children. "Give me a child till he is seven years old and I...
Why Traffic Sucks . . .
Traffic sucks - everyone who has to deal with it says it. But is it because of the traffic - i.e., because of the number of cars on the road?
Or is...
Most Annoying New Car Features?
Does anyone know where to look for safety?
This is the admonition one often gets in a new or recent-model car equipped with a back-up camera system (now required by law). Put...
Insouciant Driving
There is bad driving. But insouciant driving is worse.
What's the difference?
Bad driving encompasses many things and opinions vary about them. Some people regard driving fast - or at any rate, faster...
Can’t Pass a Bicycle Clover
Here's today's Clover:
Unable to pass a bicycle without putting half his vehicle across the double yellow and into the opposite lane of traffic. So instead, Clover simply creeps along behind the...