Recently there was a repeat showing of Top Gear on BBC America about the Honda Civic Type R that was updated for the UK market in 2007. It reminded me of how a slightly used older generation of the same model can be a better investment and even a better drive but it is also important it is to take care to have a used car inspected… [[Continue reading]]

GM and Chrysler have decided to offer hourly employees buyouts to leave the companies and decrease their expenses again. That really isn’t that shocking considering that the companies are desperately trying to pare down expenses in order to meet the terms of a bailout for the industry but there are a couple of interesting points about this round of buyouts that are interesting:

The Old Gray

After an attempt of starting his own media empire online and getting shut out, former Hot Rod Mag guy and renegade David Freiburger is returning to his roots at Hot Rod Magazine.

This has made a lot of people angry but gosh…

If you were one of the 2K plus laid off last week by Primedia then just keep telling your wife it was because Dave was expensive… [[Continue reading]]

Recently I “overheard” someone say that if a small company like Tesla could make it, what the hell is wrong with GM and Ford?

Oh boy. We should probably all be very grateful that is not the case.

The contemporary electric car is such a lovely romantic idea and I am not one to knock the dreamers but at the rate that the independent electric car makers are… [[Continue reading]]

The other day, after returning from a trip out of town, I went to pick up my dogs from the kennel (they like to call it summer camp). As I parked on the street in this semi-industrial, older area of Long Beach, I happened to glance across the street and did the complete cartoon double take. Wha?

Sitting in front of this strip of anonymous looking workshops was a… [[Continue reading]]

This is one of those eerie times when I feel the silence before that moment when lack of knowledge becomes full knowledge and those who find out the truth cannot go back (and I won’t be able to take back what I am getting ready to say).

Cars… [[Continue reading]]

For full disclosure, I have to confess to having a lot of history with the Ford Mustang in my driving life. Yep. That is me on the right with my best friend and the Mustang that started my long love for the pony car.

My parents had a 1967 yellow Mustang that I drove quite a lot! It carried Heidi… [[Continue reading]]