What I like about Elon Musk is that he’s a nut case and he’s fun. Jack Dorsey, for example, is just plain crazy. What I hate about Elon Musk is that he reinvented the electric car. He could have invented…
Henry Ford was the antithesis of Elon Musk. The latter uses government to force people into cars that are more expensive and less practical, thereby diminishing personal mobility. The former designed and built a car that cost less (each successive…
The DeLorean isn’t coming back. And Mr. Fusion was never here. The car that was the star of the Back to the Future movies was a stainless-steel-bodied gull-wing coupe designed by John DeLorean, a former GM engineer and executive who was among those responsible…
A long time ago, Hot Rod magazine — paper and all — published an article called “Caddy Hack.” It was not about web hackers. It was about taking panels off. They did that to see how quickly an otherwise completely stock…
On or about March 4, some experts believe that part of a Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX is going to crash its 8,000 pounds of force into the moon at about 5,500 miles per hour. We don’t…
Saturday A glorious day in Rancho Mirage, California. Our house there looked wonderful, as it always does. Floor-to-ceiling windows opening onto our pool and then the golf course. My pal Jeff, who drove us down there in my super car,…
Tim Kuniskis — the head of Dodge — is in a tough spot. He knows perfectly well that “electrification” is not what people who buy Dodge vehicles want. If they did want it, they would be buying electrified cars rather…
Who gets the blame when the government knowingly allows the public roads to be used as a test track for dangerous technologies? That’s the question the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) should be asking itself as it “probes” the self-crashing…
Teslas continue to crash into things, automatically. There have been at least 23 crashes of Teslas likely driving in auto-pilot mode, including three recent ones (more here). One of those occurred in Detroit about a week ago, when a Tesla Model…
