Daily Driving a 40-Year-Old Car?
Many people are understandably leery about buying a new or even recently made vehicle, on the one hand because of the stuff they don't want that's now standard in every new...
What We Owe
We are regularly told that we "owe" money to the government; it literally says this on the forms we're obliged by law to fill out each year that oblige us to...
Making Do With Less . . . Again
Was life tougher when you had to roll down your car's windows by hand - and leave them open in the summer, because your car didn't have AC? How about having...
Interview With a Parasite
Yesterday, there was a knock at the door - so I went to see who was there. I knew it wasn't any of my local friends as they all know it's...
2024 Mazda CX-30
Mazda's CX-30 has a couple of things going for it that most of its competitors either charge extra for - or don't offer at all.
The CX-30 also hasn't got two things...
A Prepper’s Dilemma
Normally, it is sound policy to live below your means; to buy only that which you can afford to pay for - at the time of purchase. But we no longer...
Charger Elephants
What if you - they - build it - and no one comes?
The line is borrowed - and bowdlerized - from the old Kevin Costner movie, Field of Dreams. Costner's character,...
Diaper Report 08/11/2024
I get asked pretty regularly why I continue to write these Diaper Reports and my answer is the same now as it was four years ago, when I wrote the first...
$32k for a 1978 Mustang II?
A measure of the appeal of new cars is how much old cars are going for. In particular, old cars that were laughed at when they were new cars - such...
I See You – You See Me
Now that every new (and recently made) vehicle has an array of cameras built into it - as well as the ability to send and receive data - the time has...