Used Car Shopping – and Shun – List
If you go new car shopping, your main worry is price. You don't have to worry about the particular car. The red one sitting next to the silver one that's parked...
Does it Make Sense to You?
Some ideas sound great... or at least, ok - until you think some more about them. Let me give you some examples:
* Nitrogen (vs. plain old air) in your tires -
The...
Conspiracy . . . or Merely Convenient?
Many new cars are optimized for ethanol - "flex-fuel" compatible is how it's usually described. The problem, of course, is that a majority of cars in service are not optimized for...
Another Measure of How We’ve Been Gypped (and Fooled)
Before I write a new car review, I like to do some background research - which helps provide context and hopefully makes the published review informative. Well, I found some interesting...
Avoiding The Ethanol Blues
Ethanol-laced "gas" (10 percent ethanol today, 15 percent soon) isn't all bad.
Just mostly bad.
It reduces fuel economy noticeably (because there's less energy in a gallon of 90 percent gas plus 10...
Poor Man’s Chrome
Chrome is pretty - and pretty expensive. Especially if you're paying to have stuff plated vs. just buying chrome-plated stuff. Go price what it'll cost to have a cam cover or...
The Virtue of Pressure
How much would the average new car cost if the least expensive new car you could buy cost around $5,000?
Probably, a lot less than the current average (2012) of just over ...
The End of Buying Used?
Buying a used car has - up to now - usually been a good way to save money. You avoid the new car mark-up ... and you take advantage of new...
Dealing With Roadside Emergencies
I know cars - and how to fix cars (sometimes)... but my wife doesn't.
Probably a lot of families are "mixed" like this. It does my wife no good to know I...
Sayonara, Suzuki
Cue Taps. There goes Suzuki.
On Nov. 6, the company (American Suzuki) announced it would stop selling cars in the U.S. after current inventory peters out - and that it will be...