2012 Chrysler 200: Not Great But Maybe Good Enough….
Thank God it's not just a name change - because the old Chrysler Sebring was the ultimate Rental Car Special. A car you drove for $25 a day when on vacation...
Five Things You Should Never Tell a Car Salesman
Here are five things you should never tell the guy trying to sell you a car:
* How much you like the car ...
Never show emotion; it's the surest way to...
A Tale of Two Bullitts
Smokey and the Bandit made the second generation Trans-Am an icon of the '70s - but it was Steve McQueen's attempts at getting airborne in a big block Highland Green...
2012 Kia Optima: Try to Find Something Bad to Say About it….
Here's the thing:
Everyone makes good cars now, so "reliability" and "safety" aren't the selling points they used to be.
They're givens.
That puts the name-brand Japanese brands - Honda and Toyota - in...
The Old vs. The New… Part Two!
While modern cars are more reliable at first and last longer – for awhile – after about 15 years, when their much more complicated systems begin to reach the end of...
Conversations With a Clover….
In honor of July 4 - the lingering spirit of it, if not the actuality - I decided to publish a "letter to Clover" as a way to show how anti-freedom...
The Obama Car
Now Obama's decided to ban cars outright.
Not in so many words, perhaps - but the end result of his just-announced "proposal" that new cars be required by law to average 56.2...
Good Cars are Bad for Business!
Good cars are killing the car industry.
Think about it ...
After decades of consumer complaints about often-iffy quality control, the car companies (the American companies in particular) performed the equivalent of a...
2012 Civic: Better Than Ever… But is it Good Enough?
Honda's Civic is the grandaddy of them all - the first Mass Success Japanese economy car that kicked in the door for the rest of them and, arguably, ushered in a...
Where it all Began…
It's not hard to pinpoint the exact moments when the Constitution was explicitly disavowed by the robed shysters charged (by themselves) with "interpreting" it.
Once such moment was 21 years ago, in...