Mouse Makes Home in KL250 Air Box
Just before "Winter Storm Pax" (someone hand me a ball peen hammer so I can bash in the skull of the cretin who came up with the idea of giving a...
Throw Winter in The Woods
I am near my breaking point. Today may just push me beyond it. A foot of got-damned frozen white shit is headed this way. It is 15 degrees outside.
Again.
How long, Oh...
2014 BMW X5
When you've got a good thing going - and BMW's X5 has been going good for almost 15 years - you don't mess with it. Not fundamentally. Keep what's good -...
Drive at Your Own Pace
On the main road that bisects my rural county, I typically lope along at 75 or so. This, to me - for me - is a reasonable speed. It's within my...
Not Exactly Jay Leno’s Garage
I've got posters of Lamborghini Murias; I once got to drive a Pantera GTS - the 351 Cleveland howling inches behind my right ear. I've spent the past 20-plus years driving...
Tax By Mile Goose Steps Forward
I hate to say I told you so . . . but, yeah, I told you so.
The fuel-efficient (and planet friendly) hybrid/electric vehicles the government has been aggressively encouraging people to...
2014 VW Beetle R-Line Turbo
Back in the Pleistocene - you know, before the '90s - a "quick" Beetle (the original Drittes Reich model designed by Dr. Porsche and you-know-who) was a 12 second car.
Not in...
A Reader Asks….
A reader sent in the following questions (along with a generous donation - thank you!) which I decided to re-post here, along with my answers. I hope "the regulars" here will...
Today’s Thoughts, Feb. 3, 2014: Journalism in America
What happened to journalism that actually challenged - or even questioned - authority? You know, looked into things - and (as the slogan of a big-time paper styles it) exposed wrongdoing...
Winter Driving . . . in a Modern Car
Times have, as the saying goes, changed.
If you learned how to drive before - roughly - the mid-1980s, you probably learned how to drive in a car without anti-lock brakes or...