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...
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...
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...
Generals Der Polizei
National Socialist (it's important to spell it out so as to point out the socialist part) Germany had an army - the Wehrmacht -...
2025 Resolutions
It is traditional to make resolutions at the beginning of the new year for the coming year. What would be an appropriate resolution for...
Rain Clovers
Have you noticed that when it might snow, many drivers act as if it had? They reduce their speed to 5 or 10 MPH...
In-Car Training
Passive-aggressiveness is generally disliked because of the mewly nature of the thing. Rather than come forth with a direct demand, the passive-aggressive person makes...
The Orange Worry
Here's a What If? scenario that could help to explain the otherwise inexplicable events of the past four-ish years.
It begins with the orchestrated removal...
A Question for the County
If you're what's commonly referred to as a "homeowner" - which is dishonest language because no one in this country actually owns their home...
Latest Radio: Real News w/David Knight 12/28/2024
Here's the audio - and video -of yesterday's appearance on Real News with David Knight, hosted by Gard Goldsmith. We spent about an hour...
The Solution for the “Sluggish” EV “Market”?
Most people aren't buying battery powered devices because most people don't want to spend so much time waiting for a device's battery to charge...
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 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...
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...
Generals Der Polizei
National Socialist (it's important to spell it out so as to point out the socialist part) Germany had an army - the Wehrmacht -...
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 Resolutions
It is traditional to make resolutions at the beginning of the new year for the coming year. What would be an appropriate resolution for...
