Back in the ’80s, you may have had to “Drive 55” on the highway — but in other ways, things were pretty damn good. At least, a lot better in a number of ways than they are now. For instance,…
Summer’s coming — and so (probably) are higher gas prices. There has already been a nationwide uptick of about 40 cents a gallon over the past few months — and we’re still a few weeks away from spring. It’s likely…
Elon Musk is brave. You’ve got to give him that. After all, the PayPal billionaire and co-founder of Tesla Motors was ballsy enough to provide one of his six figure electric lemons (produced courtesy of $465 million in taxpayer-extorted “loans”…
Before I write a new car review, I like to do some background research — which helps provide context and hopefully makes the published review informative. Well, I found some interesting information while doing some background research on the new…
Making New Year’s resolutions is easy; keeping them not so much — as anyone who has sworn to drop 20 pounds and start hitting the gym come Jan. 2 will tell you. But the idea of at least trying to…
Twelve years after its return, the New Beetle is reportedly going the way of the Old Beetle — into retirement and into the history books. 2010 will be the final year of production. The New Beetle didn’t last nearly as…
Some of my very earliest memories are of highway speed limit signs with “70” or even “75” on them. This was in the early 1970s. I also remember my parents routinely driving around 80 mph on these roads. At that…
The “new” Chrysler has just partnered with Fiat but the cars it’s selling are still old. Ancient, actually. The PT Cruiser, Sebring, 300 sedan and Town & Country minivan. All pretty much the same for 2010 as they were for…
Next time you get pulled over by a cop — or stopped at random in a “sobriety checkpoint” — you might want to remember the following laugh line: It’s called the Fifth Amendment to the Bill of Rights, which reads,…