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...
2025 Subaru Forester
There's an old saying in engineering circles: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That sums up the changes to the Subaru Forester for...
2025 Chevy Silverado
A majority of 2025 model year half-ton trucks no longer even offer a V8 engine. It's almost unimaginable - but that doesn't make it less...
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 -...
Classic Cars
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...
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...
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...
Helping General Motors . . .
Tesla uses the government to "help" people buy its devices - via the $7,500 tax kickback the government offers to people who buy Tesla's...
Latest Radio: Bryan Hyde Show 12/17/2024
Here's the audio of this week's talk with Bryan Hyde, host of the Bryan Hyde Show in Idaho! We talked about the future of...
In the Wake of Tavares
Damage control is not fun but it has to be done - assuming you want to control the damage that's been done.
The first thing...
I Probably Shouldn’t Have . . .
One of the signposts along the road that hints that maybe the quiet country place you chose to retreat to is becoming a place...
The Headrest That Gets Into Your Head
We may - not too-long from today - look back fondly on the days when a headrest was just a headrest. Kind of like...
The In-Car MRI
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Recall, Totally
GM announced the other day that it is bailing out of of its money-hemorrhaging $10 billion (so far) malinvestment in Johnny Cabs - aka,...
Mercenary Veterinary
Just as motorcycles - which are still affordable and some of them still simple, owner-fixable things - have been a kind of end-run around...
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 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...
2025 Subaru Forester
There's an old saying in engineering circles: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That sums up the changes to the Subaru Forester for...
2025 Chevy Silverado
A majority of 2025 model year half-ton trucks no longer even offer a V8 engine. It's almost unimaginable - but that doesn't make it less...
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 -...
Helping General Motors . . .
Tesla uses the government to "help" people buy its devices - via the $7,500 tax kickback the government offers to people who buy Tesla's...
Latest Radio: Bryan Hyde Show 12/17/2024
Here's the audio of this week's talk with Bryan Hyde, host of the Bryan Hyde Show in Idaho! We talked about the future of...
In the Wake of Tavares
Damage control is not fun but it has to be done - assuming you want to control the damage that's been done.
The first thing...
