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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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).
Its kinda like the answer to: “Do storks really [...]

For full disclosure, I have to confess to having a lot of history with the Ford Mustang in my driving life.
My parents had a 1967 yellow Mustang that I drove quite a lot! It carried Heidi, the 1984 Goddard High School Homecoming Queen, on the back in the parade down Main Street in my hometown [...]

Pop quiz hotshot, how do you find that right car that’s going to make you get down on your knees and go, “Oh yeah!!” Take this little quiz in order to get on the road to driving!
QUESTION #1: What kind of car should you look into?
A) One that you need.
B) [...]

Now that Mattel is officially worth more than GM, could the car manufacturers have something to glean from the toymakers?
It is no mistake that the manufacturers of toys and cars share many steps of the design process but diverge very quickly when it comes to the actual manufacturing of their product. Where they also obviously [...]

I always loved when Daylight Savings started in the autumn as a teenager.
Curfew was at midnight but on that last Saturday in October it meant that midnight was actually 1 AM.
Now the time change comes a week later ( which honestly, was so confusing this last week, I text messaged three friends in California to [...]