Paying Them to Play Along
Why does the car industry continue to pretend there's a "market" for the battery-powered devices that aren't selling? The answer is straightforward:
They're being paid to pretend.
By the very people - that's...
Lastest Radio: Bill Meyer Show/KMED FM 07/112024
Here's the audio of this week's Wheels up! segment with Bill Meyer over at KMED FM in Medford, OR. We talked about going on three wheels, the Volvo S60 (RIP) and...
Insurance is as Bad as Taxes
Many complain about taxes. About how we're forced to hand over so much of our money to the government in taxes - including property taxes on our homes - that it's...
Strange Days, Indeed
Everyone is wondering what is going to happen and the thing is, none of us knows. That makes everyone understandably nervous. It's hard to live normally when "normal" is no more....
Drive a Free (Almost) Device!
It's become so hard to sell EVs like the Nissan Leaf that some enterprising dealers have figured out how to give them away, almost. One dealer in Colorado, for instance, is...
Latest Radio: Bryan Hyde Show 07/09/2024
Here's the audio of this week's talk with Bryan Hyde, host of the Bryan Hyde Show in Utah. We talked about who runs bartertown - it isn't the casket model they...
Don’t Just Check the Air . . .
For decades, people have been advised to regularly check/make sure their vehicle's tires haven't lost air - especially after the mid-1990s-era Firestone tire/Ford Explorer rollover fiasco.
The Explorer of that era wasn't...
Diaper Report: 07/08/2024
It has been announced that Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman - a title fit for our times - has come down with "COVID." This is interesting given that the man has...
The Safety Fallacy
It wasn't the government that made cars safer to drive. It was the free market that made them less likely to crash.
Which made them safer to drive. As opposed to "safer"...
Small is Big (Again)
Huge (and expensive) trucks and SUVs have for many years been the best-selling vehicles on the market. But that may be changing - in part because they are so huge (and...