That damned new-car itch is back. I was hoping it would stay away, but it’s an irritating cyclical visitor that emerges out of nowhere at the 6-7 year mark–like a […]
Well, that figures. Our family road trip has landed me in the midst of the best driving roads I’ve ever seen and my Fiesta ST is seven hundred miles away. […]
Vehicles engineered toward a specific use can be frustrating when they also must be applied as broad-spectrum transportation. Five years and sixty-thousand miles into our 4Runner ownership, I’ve had […]
As we fly through youth toward middle age, and our children grow older and our bodies grow slower and the ceaseless march of time places year after year behind the […]
Crossovers, you may have noticed, are here for the foreseeable future. Enthusiasts see them as an occupying force and the erasure of driving culture, but the scrimmage line is now […]
I’m not having a good 2020. Most of us aren’t. We’re isolated, disrupted, nervous about finances and health. We’ve been shown just what a fragile illusion our booming economy and […]
VW has paved a difficult road for itself in North America. While huge globally, they’ve never pegged this market and have bumbled around with the wrong product mix for years. […]
I’m a bit of a contrarian by nature. I’ll propose counterpoints just for the exercise of it, and by default I am skeptical of trends for reasons inexplicable even to […]
Buy a car that’s good at being cheap, buy a car that’s good at being interesting, but don’t buy a car that isn’t good at either. I think this basic […]
Simply resplendent in its Seasonal Affective Disorder camouflage paint The new-for-2018 Camry is the sales leader in a quickly declining segment that once was a massive presence in the American […]
The nation sways and bends to the 1%. They control monetary policy and have access to the channels of power. Many times, they are the channels of power. The ninety-nine […]
Here we are, the final pair in the quest for an enjoyable, affordable family car two years ago. The 2016 VW GTI was the benchmark to beat, and lightly used […]
Behold King Maw. We turn away in fear–or perhaps disgust–from his oversized visage, fearing ruin and destruction, for what else could follow? How could this have happened to conservative Lexus? […]
Kellen was not a keeper I frequently read about cars and personal stories that make me reconsider my entire approach to vehicle ownership, and this happened again yesterday with CCer […]
It rose from the waters. It heard your murmurings. Your audible complaints that once-revolutionary Acura had been slipping into bland anonymity combined violently with declining sales and market share to […]