An Eye Opening Event
If we’re lucky, we begin to understand – even if incompletely. We will not – we cannot – know everything. Not in this life. But we may come to understand that not everything is as it seems. Or – rather...
View Article2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz
Until three years ago, you couldn’t buy a small truck in this country. And you still can’t. But you can buy a small pick-up that looks like a truck – that can do many of the things you could do with a...
View ArticleWhat Does DOGE Matter?
We are supposed to be grateful that Elon Musk’s Whiz Kids have discovered so much “government waste” – as for example at USAID. But what does it matter? More finely, does it matter – to the average...
View ArticleAir Bags For People Not in the Car
It is not enough, apparently, to have air bags built into the dash, door panels and seats of a new car. Because what about people outside the car? Oh yes, Johnny! – as Ed McMahon used to say. Subaru...
View ArticleLaw Enforced
A person close to me got stopped the other day by a law enforcer. Note that the sentence says nothing about anyone having caused harm or even threatened harm to anyone. Well, except for the law...
View ArticleYoked
Mercedes announced the other day that it will debut a yoke – in lieu of a steering wheel – along with the the illusion that the driver is in control of the steering – in the next iteration of its EQS...
View ArticleMazda’s Last Car?
Did you know Mazda is down to selling just one car? Well – technically – one sedan that’s also available as a hatchback’d sedan. This one being the 2025 Mazda3. But in either iteration, it is the last...
View ArticleThe Affordable Device
One of the chief reasons battery powered vehicles aren’t selling isn’t because they don’t go very far – or because they take comparatively forever to recover even a partial (let alone a full) charge....
View ArticleThe Fakest and Gayest Mustang Ever
Carroll Shelby is gone – thank God. He is thus spared the indignity of knowing his name has been affixed to a device that’s neither a Shelby nor a Mustang. It is a device that pretends to be both. More...
View ArticleThe Second Worst Trend of the Past 20 Years
“Rims” – the slangster term for wheels that are disproportionately large for the vehicle – are arguably one of the worst styling and functional affectations of the past 20 years. They add weight and...
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