SACRAMENTO — Reflecting on the early years of automotive history, Alexander Winton — who arguably sold the first-ever automobile in 1897 — recalled the naysayers who couldn’t envision the idea that horseless carriages would ever gain widespread acceptance. They viewed…
It won’t start. I got in the car and it won’t start. Poof-poof-poof. That’s all this pile of junk on wheels has to say for itself when I put the key in the ignition. It’s eight o’clock in the morning….
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
