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...
2024 Mazda CX-30
Mazda's CX-30 has a couple of things going for it that most of its competitors either charge extra for - or don't offer at...
2024 VW GTI
It's the last call. The final hurrah. Call it what you will, it amounts to the same.
Right now - this year - is the...
2024 Toyota Land Cruiser
For once, a new vehicle cost less than what it used to cost. In the case of the new Toyota Land Cruiser, tens of thousands...
Classic Cars
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...
A Mustang Story
Not all the news is bad news.
Ford has not cancelled the Mustang, for instance. Nor are there plans to ruin it by turning it...
Goodbye, Camaro
Sixty years ago, Ford unveiled the Mustang - and it changed everything. Prior to 1964 - the year of the first Mustang's debut -...
Make the Conversion?
The manual transmission is being pushed off the market by the pushing of electric vehicles, which don't generally have transmissions at all (the motors...
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: Bill Meyer Show/KMED FM 09/19/2024
Here's the audio of this week's Wheels Up! segment with Bill Meyer over at KMED FM in Medford, Oregon. We talked about how it's...
Diaper Report: 09/19/2024
Yesterday, I saw my first "masked" person at the gym - again. The first time was just shy of four years ago, at the...
Just 1-2 Percent Per Year . . .
Would you be ok with it if a car you bought this year delivered 1-2 percent less gas mileage than it advertised by the...
Latest Radio: Bryan Hyde Show 09/17/2024
Here's the audio of this week's talk with Bryan Hyde, host of The Bryan Hyde Show in Idaho. We talked about the indigent Freak...
Before Time Home Costs
This is another chapter in the Before Time series of articles (here's the last one) written by those who experienced those times for the...
Second-Hand Altruism
When Leftists (who are of course communists) talk about helping others, they are really talking about forcing you to help others while they pocket...
EVs and the Coming Election
There is a choice coming up in about two months from now. It will decide whether the pushing of electric vehicles will wax -...
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...
Cycles
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 . . ....
They’re Coming for Bikes Next . . .
Most people who ride motorcycles do it because they want to. A motorcycle is - usually - not the primary instrument of transportation. It...
New Car Reviews
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...
2024 Mazda CX-30
Mazda's CX-30 has a couple of things going for it that most of its competitors either charge extra for - or don't offer at...
2024 VW GTI
It's the last call. The final hurrah. Call it what you will, it amounts to the same.
Right now - this year - is the...
2024 Toyota Land Cruiser
For once, a new vehicle cost less than what it used to cost. In the case of the new Toyota Land Cruiser, tens of thousands...
Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show/KMED FM 09/19/2024
Here's the audio of this week's Wheels Up! segment with Bill Meyer over at KMED FM in Medford, Oregon. We talked about how it's...
Diaper Report: 09/19/2024
Yesterday, I saw my first "masked" person at the gym - again. The first time was just shy of four years ago, at the...
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...
