2025 Lincoln Corsair
The daunting thing about the car market right now is how expensive non-luxury-brand vehicles have become. On average, they have increased in cost by...
2025 Kia Sportage Plug-in Hybrid
Plug-in hybrids are ingenious things. Not so much because they can be driven entirely on battery power until they run low on charge -...
2025 Range Rover Evoq
It's a little strange to use affordable and Range Rover in the same sentence, but there is such a thing.
It is called the Range...
2025 Mercedes CLA 45 S
It's a little weird that Mercedes is selling subcompact front-wheel-drive sedans with four cylinder engines. Those attributes used to describe economy cars.
But the Mercedes...
2025 Audi A7
The Audi A7 is an interesting critter in that it's about the same size as a mid-sized BMW 5 Series sedan and other mid-sized...
2024 Fiat 500e
A lot has changed in the five years since you could last buy a brand-new Fiat 500 - the cute little micro-car from Italy.
When...
2025 Cadillac CT5
There aren't many new sedans left on the market - and most of the ones that are still on the market are front-wheel-drive/all-wheel-drive and...
2025 Chevy Equinox
It's interesting that Chevy - GM - offers two iterations of the Equinox. One of them sells really well.
The other not so much.
You can...
Classic Cars
Collapsing Collector Car Market?
It may soon be a good time to buy that classic car you've always wanted to own - but couldn't afford to buy. The...
Measuring Our Impoverishment (Again)
It is important to remember the way things were - as a way to measure how things are - now. It is especially important...
Some Things You Can’t Do in a New Car
Just like you can't board a commercial airplane anymore without first being subjected to the sort of Obedience Training you used to have to...
Clarkson’s Right
Top Gear frontman Jeremy Clarkson is right: Modern cars are "all shit now." But he didn't explain exactly why, so I'll try.
It is not...
Daily Driving a 40-Year-Old Car?
Many people are understandably leery about buying a new or even recently made vehicle, on the one hand because of the stuff they don't...
A Prepper’s Dilemma
Normally, it is sound policy to live below your means; to buy only that which you can afford to pay for - at the...
$32k for a 1978 Mustang II?
A measure of the appeal of new cars is how much old cars are going for. In particular, old cars that were laughed at...
The Anodyne Exotic
The most powerful - and boring - Corvette ever made is coming soon. It is an iteration of the current generic-exotic Corvette, with its...
Motorcycles
Some Therapy
One of the things we can do to mitigate the stress of everything feeling like it's spiraling out of control is to take on...
The Disposable Bike
A riding buddy of mine urges me to buy a disposable bike - though of course he does not call it that. He means...
Missing Two Strokes
There's only one kind of gas-burning engine we're allowed to have, which is a shame for reasons that go beyond the obnoxious effrontery of...
When There’s no Room Left in the Garage
Getting another bike is never a problem; it's all-too-easy to get another bike. They sometimes seem to just show up, like a stray cat...
Have Bike Will Travel
If you were to distill mechanized transportation down to its core essentials, you'd end up with something like the dirt bike - or its...
Insurance Incongruity
Having to buy car insurance - motorcycle insurance, in the case at hand - is bad enough. No one ought to be forced to...
Anecdotal but Interesting
To use - or not to use - synthetic oil in engines made decades before synthetic oils were in common use . . ....
Helmet Laws
If you ride a motorcycle, "the law" - that is to say, busybody people who write them - probably requires that you wear a...
And Now We’ll See
Trump has done it. The question now is - will he do it?
Will he do more than just talk, that is?
We'll soon see.
The first...
The Lesser of Two Evils
Just some thoughts after voting today for the lesser of two evils:
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The “Neighborliness” of Communists
Why is it that Communists pretend they're not?
A fine example of this being the huge signs that began to appear in my area over...
Plugging Around
There's really only one reason for the proliferation of plug-in hybrid vehicles - and it isn't to "save money" via using less gas.
Plug in...
Latest Radio: Knights of the Storm 11/3/2024
Here's the audio and video of yesterday's Knights of the Storm episode!
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Some Therapy
One of the things we can do to mitigate the stress of everything feeling like it's spiraling out of control is to take on...
Cycles
When One is None
Every now and then you have to relearn a hard lesson. Such as always having at least one spare key for your old bike....
The Disposable Bike
A riding buddy of mine urges me to buy a disposable bike - though of course he does not call it that. He means...
Why Helmet Laws are Silly and Tyrannical
I wanted to remember what it was like to live in a free country - remember when people used to say that? - so...
When There’s no Room Left in the Garage
Getting another bike is never a problem; it's all-too-easy to get another bike. They sometimes seem to just show up, like a stray cat...
Have Bike Will Travel
If you were to distill mechanized transportation down to its core essentials, you'd end up with something like the dirt bike - or its...
Insurance Incongruity
Having to buy car insurance - motorcycle insurance, in the case at hand - is bad enough. No one ought to be forced to...
Mad Max on Two Wheels
I am often asked what I think is the best kind of car to own if things get really bad. I think the best...
Anecdotal but Interesting
To use - or not to use - synthetic oil in engines made decades before synthetic oils were in common use . . ....
New Car Reviews
2025 Lincoln Corsair
The daunting thing about the car market right now is how expensive non-luxury-brand vehicles have become. On average, they have increased in cost by...
2025 Kia Sportage Plug-in Hybrid
Plug-in hybrids are ingenious things. Not so much because they can be driven entirely on battery power until they run low on charge -...
2025 Range Rover Evoq
It's a little strange to use affordable and Range Rover in the same sentence, but there is such a thing.
It is called the Range...
2025 Mercedes CLA 45 S
It's a little weird that Mercedes is selling subcompact front-wheel-drive sedans with four cylinder engines. Those attributes used to describe economy cars.
But the Mercedes...
2025 Audi A7
The Audi A7 is an interesting critter in that it's about the same size as a mid-sized BMW 5 Series sedan and other mid-sized...
2024 Fiat 500e
A lot has changed in the five years since you could last buy a brand-new Fiat 500 - the cute little micro-car from Italy.
When...
2025 Cadillac CT5
There aren't many new sedans left on the market - and most of the ones that are still on the market are front-wheel-drive/all-wheel-drive and...
2025 Chevy Equinox
It's interesting that Chevy - GM - offers two iterations of the Equinox. One of them sells really well.
The other not so much.
You can...
And Now We’ll See
Trump has done it. The question now is - will he do it?
Will he do more than just talk, that is?
We'll soon see.
The first...
2025 Lincoln Corsair
The daunting thing about the car market right now is how expensive non-luxury-brand vehicles have become. On average, they have increased in cost by...
The Lesser of Two Evils
Just some thoughts after voting today for the lesser of two evils:
. . .
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We depend...
