What Most of Us Don’t Do Anymore
The other day, I started up my old muscle car. This involves something more than pushing the "start" button - which is how you start pretty much every new car (the...
Getting Ready . . .
Many people are deciding they'll keep the car they have rather than buy a new car equipped with so many "features" they don't want, including the kill switch "technology" mandated by...
Reader Question: Dead Town & Country?
Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply!
Matt asks: I thought you for sure would be the guy to ask a simple car question.
I'm not as car savvy as my...
A Lift That Works
If you like to work on cars you probably hate crawling around underneath one, trying to get at things you can't easily reach - or even see. This gets old after...
Reader Question: Extend the Nav’s Certification?
Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply!
Bryan asks: I enjoy your site and currently have a 2016 Navigator L with 108,000. I have it certified to 2027 and 140,000....
We’re Almost There Already Anyhow
You have probably heard the mantra of the World Economic Forum (it sounds as if we're all part of it, doesn't it?) about how in the near future, you will own...
Glub Glub Glub
Buying a car that has been under water - literally, not in the sense that its previous owner had it repo'd because he owed more in remaining monthly payments than the...
It’s not “Four Wheel Drive” . . . Even Though it Also is
Definitions matter because without precise meaning it is difficult to know what you're talking about, exactly. Or even what's being talked about, at all. It is why talking about "vaccines" that...
Fixed Price Car Buying?
Buying a car is kind of like buying a house in that what the seller is asking isn't necessarily what you'll be paying. There is usually a negotiation before the sale...
Options
The nice thing about buffets is you get to pick what you want and how much of it. Buying a car was once a lot like that.
The car, itself, was just...