The CNG Alternative
Whatever happened to CNG - Compressed Natural Gas - as an alternative fuel?
Back in the mid '90s, I test-drove a few factory-built CNG-powered...
Lincoln’s Future: Is There One?
Back in the mid-'90s, Lincoln was riding high. Ford's primo brand was actually outselling GM's Cadillac division, which at the time was purveyor of...
2012 Range Rover Evoque
James Bond's Walther PPK was a lot like the new Range Rover Evoque: Compact, elegant - but very capable when called upon.
Ditto the...
Pssst: It’s Still About a Buck a Gallon
I was researching some Now vs. Then costs for a story I did recently on car prices when I stumbled onto something interesting -...
The Case Against Driver’s Licenses
That little plastic laminated card you've got in your wallet or purse - you know, the state's permission slip for operating a motor vehicle?...
Here’s What We’re Missing …
Best-case mileage you can get in a new car is 48 MPG - the advertised highway mileage of a 2012 Toyota Prius hybrid.
It...
Tits Up
There will be no bailout for Saab - and so, no bailout for Saab owners.
Sweden's other automaker, formerly an appendage of GM, recently...
How Not to Save Money
Hybrid vehicles are many things, some of them positive. I tested an Infiniti M hybrid recently that had so much right-now torque (an electric...
2012 Honda Ridgeline
Honda's take on the old Chevy El Camino (and Ford Ranchero) probably came along a few years too soon.
In 2006, when the first...
Road Clovers
Charles Darwin categorized the flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands. My job is to provide a taxonomy of Cloveris Americanus - the various...