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by | Mar 1, 2024

It looks as though the citizens of Los Angeles, the legendary traffic capital of America, the place that gifted us freeway gridlock and smog, the “spaghetti bowl” of freeways and the parking lot that is “the 405 Freeway,” will vote…

by | Feb 29, 2024

Is it bad for the U.S. that a Japanese automaker such as Honda builds millions of cars in America — in five American states — employing thousands of American workers? If it isn’t, then why would it be bad for…

by | Feb 28, 2024

SACRAMENTO — Thanks to the wonders of social media, it’s easy to find large communities of car-loathing, bicycle-riding, transit-loving urbanists who view cars as “death machines” and insist they are the cause of every woe known to mankind. Many of these…

by | Jan 26, 2024

The American Spectator’s founder and editor-in-chief, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., suggested that I review for these pages Michael Mann’s latest film, Ferrari. Given that the film is based on Brock Yates’ excellent 1991 biography Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars,…

by and | Jan 19, 2024

This week’s arctic cold snap has The Spectacle host Melissa Mackenzie wrapped in a scarf in her Texas home and co-host Scott McKay in a fedora to protect his ears — and it also has charging stations in Chicago turning…

by | Jan 17, 2024

SACRAMENTO — One of my favorite Soviet-era jokes involved a man who was admiring a shiny American car on a Moscow street. Another man approached and also admired it. The first man said: “What a beautiful Russian car. What magnificent,…

by | Jan 15, 2024

What if you could turn back time — to 2008 — and buy a brand-new half-ton truck like they used to make them? One without the “assistance” and other “technologies” that come standard with the new ones, like it or…

by | Jan 1, 2024

Americosis: A Nation’s Dysfunction Observed from Public Transit By Sam Forster (Sutherland House, 146 pages, $26) One of poststructuralism’s simplest dictums — if you can say any French literary theory seeks simplicity — speaks to why the world and our…

by | Dec 15, 2023

When Sergio Marchionne was running Fiat, he advised people to not buy the electric version of the 500, Fiat’s “Italian Job” micro-car. Why? Because each “sale” would cost Fiat a lot of money as the electric 500 could not be…

by | Dec 6, 2023

The government has a dilemma: It’s pushing hard for fuel-efficient vehicles, but gas taxes pay for roads. There’s an obvious fix, but are Americans ready for it? Granted, tax credits, subsidies, and government mandates aren’t delivering the electric-vehicle sales surge…

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