They Keep Making Cars Safer…
But what about us?
Air bags and crumple zones make a car more crashworthy. But they don't make it less likely we'll crash the car.
That's still up to us, to a great...
Cadillac Eldorado, 1953–1985
A good name is a good beginning—and when Cadillac decided to christen its ultra- convertible after the mythical "gilded one" of Aztec/Mayan legend, it could not have chosen a more fitting...
Can You Read a Sidewall?
What do all those numbers (and letters) really mean?
Here's a short primer on tire-related terminology that should help you get to know your four friends a bit better:
* Contact Patch -
As...
2011 Buick LaCrosse
Sometimes silence isn't golden.
Why isn't Buick doing more to advertise the 2010 LaCrosse? By rights, this car should be puttin' a hurtin' on the Lexus ES350 - known for years as...
Videotaping Thug Cops Can Lead to Trouble . . .
For you!
If you witness police misconduct and record it as a video on your phone or camera, you won't be welcomed as a hero in the United States - formerly land...
2011 Volkswagen Golf
It's easy to like the VW Golf.
On the one hand, it's an economy car - with an available turbo-diesel engine that can return more than 40 mpg on the highway (better...
New Cop Cars Blend Into The Crowd
For decades, it has been pretty easy to visually pick out cop cars from the crowd.
Even without a radar detector, alert drivers knew to slow down when they saw a Ford...
2011 Ford Mustang
In the '80s (and through the early '90s) Ford's 5.0 "high output" V-8 led the latter-day muscle car resurgence. Then around 1994, Ford dropped its hugely popular (and long-serving) five-liter OHV...
9/11 Questions…
There are many entirely legitimate questions about what happened on 9/11 left unanswered:
* Why is there no video of the plane that hit the Pentagon? That area (I lived there, so...
2010 MazdaSpeed3
John DeLorean - the father of the Pontiac GTO - is credited with having invented the muscle car concept. Take an affordable/budget-oriented "normal" car, shoot it up with the automotive equivalent...