Stability Control and Idiot Proofing
Electronic stability control will be a mandatory feature on all new cars by 2012.
Unlike seat belts, padded dashboards and air bags - which are so-called "passive" safety features that are there...
Can They Detect Your Radar Detector… ?
The article I wrote a few weeks back about the value of buying (and using) a radar detector (http://ericpetersautos.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=15792) prompted several replies pointing out that in Virginia and DC - where...
2011 GMC Acadia
GMC is GM's upscale SUV and truck division - up a notch from Chevy, not quite as high-end as Cadillac.
Until just a couple of years ago, GMC only sold trucks -...
Chrysler Cordoba, 1975-1983
Ricardo Montalban achieved cultural immortality not for being the genetically enhanced, jump-suited superman Khan on "Star Trek" - or the suave, white-suited Mr. Roark on "Fantasy Island" - but for explaining...
How the Tea Party Became the Republican Party
Remember two years ago?
In the year preceding the election of Obama, there was a massive and genuinely grassroots movement against both entrenched wings of the federal crime syndicate (as Lew Rockwell...
$4 gas had some upsides…
Gas prices seem to have stabilized - at least temporarily - at the New Normal of about $2.70 per gallon for regular unleaded.
But I miss $4 per gallon gas. Don't you?...
Good Luck Finding Performance Tires for Your Classic Muscle Car
If you own a '60s or '70s-era muscle car, you've probably become aware of an ironic problem: It is virtually impossible to find high-performance tires for these high-performance beasts.
The BF Goodrich...
2010 Suzuki Grand Vitara
There are a dozen or more compact-sized SUVs on the market, but only a few have real (truck-type) four-wheel-drive - 4WD with Low range gearing.
Suzuki's Grand Vitara is one of these...
Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, 1964-1977
Here is a fact that some will find hard to swallow: GM's Oldsmobile division was once the number-three best-selling brand of car in the United States.
Believe it or not.
Given Oldsmobile's consumptive...
Rand Paul’s Social Security Screw-Over
Supposed Libertarian Rand Paul is advocating increasing the age of eligibility to receive SS benefits (article follows below). In other words, screw over (again) the younger generation that has been paying...