2025 VW Jetta GLI
Remember when what was once commonly referred to as a standard - that is, a manual - transmission - was . . . commonly...
2025 Honda Prologue
The Honda Prologue isn't really a Honda - in that it's based on the Chevy Blazer EV - but it is different in a...
2025 Mazda CX-90
It's not easy to pick a crossover from among all the other crossovers because so many of them are more or less the same.
One...
2025 Toyota Camry
The Toyota Camry used to be available with either a standard four cylinder engine or a V6 engine or a four cylinder-hybrid combination.
Now it's...
2025 Buick Enclave
Here's an interesting fact: The biggest Buick you can buy today comes with the smallest, strongest engine Buick ever put in its biggest model.
That...
2025 Nissan Altima
Nissan's Altima sedan has been around for more than 30 years. It will probably not be around after the end of the 2025 model...
2025 Dodge Durango
You have probably hear that Dodge has stopped selling V8 powered Chargers and Challengers. And you may know that Ram 1500 trucks are no...
2025 Kia Sorento
"Sharing platforms" - car industry jargon for making (and selling) two iterations of basically the same thing - is generally considered an unflattering thing.
Or...
Classic Cars
Heater Core Part III
I finally got the leaking heater core out of my old Nissan Frontier ('02 model year, so now 23 years old) and found a...
Rockford’s Car
TV (and movie) cars are often remembered more fondly - and for longer - than the actors who drove them in those shows (and...
Dirty Laundry
I rarely - I don't think I ever have - aired issues I've had with a business I'd dealt with. But I have never...
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...
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...
Inflation is Bad . . .
Inflation - the artificial (because created by those who control the supply of money) decrease in the purchasing power of money - is bad...
Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show/KMED FM 01/17/2025
Here's the audio of this week's Wheels-Up! segment with Bill Meyer over at KMED FM in Medford, OR. We talked about the impending death...
The Mafia’s Adjustments
Who is going to pay for the losses - probably in the billions - incurred in California as a result of the fires fueled...
Latest Radio: David Knight Show 01/16/2025
Here's the audio (and video, hopefully!) of yesterday's talk with David Knight. My segment starts at just past the 2:05 mark!
. . .
If you...
He’s No John Galt
Glenn Beck - after reading ad copy urging his listeners to buy Rough Greens and Relief Factor, which constitutes the bulk of his show...
Chrysler is Over
It's all but official. Chrysler is about to be cancelled.
This can be inferred by the recently disclosed decision to "put on hold until further...
Latest Radio: Bryan Hyde Show 0/15/2025
Here's the audio of this week's segment of the Bryan Hyde Show! We got into "congestion relief zones," among other things. I'll be on...
Latest Radio: Corbett Report 01/14/2025
Here's the audio of my conversation las night with James Corbett of the Corbett Report. We talked about the way cars and freedom are...
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 VW Jetta GLI
Remember when what was once commonly referred to as a standard - that is, a manual - transmission - was . . . commonly...
2025 Honda Prologue
The Honda Prologue isn't really a Honda - in that it's based on the Chevy Blazer EV - but it is different in a...
2025 Mazda CX-90
It's not easy to pick a crossover from among all the other crossovers because so many of them are more or less the same.
One...
2025 Toyota Camry
The Toyota Camry used to be available with either a standard four cylinder engine or a V6 engine or a four cylinder-hybrid combination.
Now it's...
2025 Buick Enclave
Here's an interesting fact: The biggest Buick you can buy today comes with the smallest, strongest engine Buick ever put in its biggest model.
That...
2025 Nissan Altima
Nissan's Altima sedan has been around for more than 30 years. It will probably not be around after the end of the 2025 model...
2025 Dodge Durango
You have probably hear that Dodge has stopped selling V8 powered Chargers and Challengers. And you may know that Ram 1500 trucks are no...
2025 Kia Sorento
"Sharing platforms" - car industry jargon for making (and selling) two iterations of basically the same thing - is generally considered an unflattering thing.
Or...
Inflation is Bad . . .
Inflation - the artificial (because created by those who control the supply of money) decrease in the purchasing power of money - is bad...
Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show/KMED FM 01/17/2025
Here's the audio of this week's Wheels-Up! segment with Bill Meyer over at KMED FM in Medford, OR. We talked about the impending death...
The Mafia’s Adjustments
Who is going to pay for the losses - probably in the billions - incurred in California as a result of the fires fueled...
