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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
More Digitized Idiot Proofing on Deck for 2014
Is Detroit responsible for making sure you don't back-up over your child? What if you don't have a child?
Better yet, what if you know...