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...
2024 Toyota GR86
GM used to sell two slightly different versions of the same thing - the Pontiac Firebird and the Chevrolet Camaro. It was done that...
2025 Mazda CX70
The trend has been to install smaller engines in place of larger engines - and to charge people more for what they're not getting...
2024 Lexus GX550
When Toyota brought back the Land Cruiser this year, it no longer came standard with a V8. It now comes only with a turbo-hybridized...
2024 Volvo XC40 Recharge
Volvo used be the go-to brand for safe vehicles that lasted a long time. Then everyone else began making "safe" vehicles, chiefly because the...
Classic Cars
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...
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...
Motorcycles
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...
Motorcycle Clovers
Regular readers of this column already know what a Clover is. It is someone who - among other things - refuses to move over...
Latest Radio: Bryan Hyde Show 10/15/2024
Here's the audio of this week's talk with my friend Bryan Hyde, host of the Bryan Hyde Show in Idaho! We talked about the...
Devolutionist Dementia
Did you know that Trump and the military are actually "in control" of the country - and that Biden is "the front man waking...
No One Dreads the Plumber
Do you feel anxious when you glance in the rearview and notice there's a plumber's truck behind you? You might even feel relieved -...
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...
Diaper Report: 10/12/2024
Why do I keep filing these Diaper Reports? Because people continue to wear Diapers over their faces - in spite of the fact that it...
No Flying – and More – For You
In just a few months from now, everyone who has not gotten what is styled a "REAL ID" at the DMV (revelatory, isn't that?)...
It’s The Impact That Kills
You have probably read about police speeding to catch "speeders" ending up killing someone who just happened to be in the way of the...
Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show/KMED FM 10/10/2024
Here's the audio of this week's Wheels Up! segment with Bill Meyer over at KMED FM in Medford, OR. We talked about "fursonas" and...
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 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...
2024 Toyota GR86
GM used to sell two slightly different versions of the same thing - the Pontiac Firebird and the Chevrolet Camaro. It was done that...
2025 Mazda CX70
The trend has been to install smaller engines in place of larger engines - and to charge people more for what they're not getting...
2024 Lexus GX550
When Toyota brought back the Land Cruiser this year, it no longer came standard with a V8. It now comes only with a turbo-hybridized...
2024 Volvo XC40 Recharge
Volvo used be the go-to brand for safe vehicles that lasted a long time. Then everyone else began making "safe" vehicles, chiefly because the...
Latest Radio: Bryan Hyde Show 10/15/2024
Here's the audio of this week's talk with my friend Bryan Hyde, host of the Bryan Hyde Show in Idaho! We talked about the...
Devolutionist Dementia
Did you know that Trump and the military are actually "in control" of the country - and that Biden is "the front man waking...
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....
