2011 Mazda6
Size matters - to family car buyers.
So it's not surprising that the Mazda6 - which used to be slightly smaller - and sportier - than other cars in the mid-sized sedan...
The AWD Con… .
Are you thinking about buying an all-wheel-drive car? You might want to think about it a little more.
I can tell you from my test driving that the AWD version of a...
Five Winter Car Essentials
What's the best car for winter driving?
It's one of those questions with no one size-fits-all answer. But I'll tell you what I think makes for a good winter car:
* It's older...
63 MPGs – just not for us…
The new Mini Cooper Countryman can get 63 MPGs on the highway - just not on our highways.
Like so many other high-mileage, diesel-powered vehicles, it's not available in the United States....
1978–1990 Dodge Omni (Oh Lawsee!)
It became a depressing tendency in the late 1970s to bestow optimistic-sounding names on increasingly scrunched-down and browbeaten economy cars that were at best proletarian-geared “transportation modules” as enjoyable as day-old...
The Road Rage Defuser (Or How To Avoid Being A Clover)
Road rage is a function of Cloverism - inept, oblivious and passive-aggressive "driving."
Do your part to keep creeping Cloverism in check by avoiding these common examples of Clover-ish conduct behind the...
2011 Kia Optima
Back in the '70s and '80s, car journalists got sore arms throwing rhetorical cabbages at American car companies over the practice known as "bad engineering" - reselling the same car...
It’s Not The Sail Fawns…
The geese have erupted into their usual flapping and screeching over reports that yet another study shows (supposedly) that using sail fawns while driving contributes to distracted driving - and accidents.
But...
We Can’t Drive 55 – Even Though 75 (or Faster) is Legal Again
Americans' love affair with the car may be headed for divorce court, according to a survey done by the Pew Research Center. It found that the number of people who still...
1983–1988 Hurst Olds/442
Oldsmobile had a long and distinguished history - and suffered a slow, painful death.
The process of mortification began in the early 1980s, when General Motors gutted the formerly independent engineering departments...