Particulate Filters for … Everyone!
VW - desperate to appear chastened over its "cheating" sins - has just announced it is going to fit particulate filters to its 2017...
The Government Made Me a Litterbug
Uncle has turned me into a litterbug.
I've chucked empty beer bottles out the window. I do not like doing this. I feel guilty about doing...
The Anti-Tesla Gets No Love
It’s interesting that the car That Makes Sense - economically and functionally - gets almost no press while cars that don’t (like the Tesla...
Measuring the Cost of the VW “Cheating” Scandal… So Far
The VW emissions “cheating” scandal has been below the fold for a couple months now, but the repercussions are beginning to hit home.
Literally.
At home.
If...
Annual Irony Day
We’re just weeks away from the Annual Irony - the day devoted to celebrating a revolt against the authority of a red, white and...
Unsere Electric Only Zukunft
Did you catch that the internal combustion engine has been outlawed?
Not here... not yet.
In Germany - where a law has been passed requiring that all new cars...
Hall of Shame
That we are inmates in a lunatic asylum ought to be obvious - except it’s not, which explains precisely why it is a lunatic...
Charge It….
In “Third World” countries - the ones Americans take comfort in making fun of - they just take your money.
The cops, I mean.
No pretext,...
Scanners
The criteria for defining an illegal search has never been whether you’re aware of the search having been performed. If, for instance, investigators sneak...
When “If It Saves One Life” Doesn’t Seem to Matter…
There are millions of cars out there with ticking time bombs in their dashboards … and steering wheels. Air bags with defective components produced...