2016 VW Golf R
Here’s an irony for you:
When VW launched the hot hatch Golf R last year, it came only only with an automatic transmission. This year, Ford has launched the even hotter hatch...
2016 BMW X5 eDrive
BMW is going electric in a big way. The company honchos say so, openly. They see the IC engine as doomed - not because of scarce gas but omnipresent Uncle. Emissions...
2017 Chevy Volt
Only Nixon could go to China, they said.
Maybe they will say the same about me - and my (ducking now) endorsement of the Chevy Volt… .
Ok. I just popped my head...
2016 BMW 330 eDrive
Here - for once - is a hybrid that does not suck.
Gas - or otherwise.
The BMW 330 eDrive.
You can drive the thing 80 MPH(or faster) on just the batteries.
And as far as...
2016 Buick Cascada
Impractical convertibles seem to do ok. The practical ones not so much.
Ask Toyota.
Or Chrysler.
Or Volvo.
Or VW.
The Camry Solara, 200 convertible and C70 withered away for lack of interest, like unwanted timeshares -...
2016 BMW X1
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2016 Chevy Cruze
The Chevy Cruze was the last man standing - so to speak.
It was the only other affordable diesel-powered car you could buy ... other than VW’s diesel-powered cars.
Which you can’t buy anymore.
At...
2016 Ford Focus “Triple”
I have a three cylinder motorcycle. A "triple."
For a 400 pound bike, it's plenty. But how about a 2,900 pound car?
A 3,000 pound-plus car, once you add you.
Well, me.
But the Ford...
2016 Chevy Malibu
History does repeat - in unexpected ways.
When Japanese (and later, Korean) car companies challenged the family car hegemony of Detroit’s Big Three back in the ‘70s ands ‘80s, they did so...
2016 Dodge Charger
American cars are all but extinct.
Not American brands. GM and Ford are still making cars. But they are very different kinds of cars now. Mostly, they are front-wheel-drive in layout, "sensible" in in...