My friend, Steve Haas, wrote this great article for me back in November about leasing vs buying. I kind of sat on it. A lot. I sat on it for over 3 months because I had this gut feeling that I couldn’t quite place and I didn’t discuss with Steve until today because I am [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

So you have a cell phone plan and you go over minutes every month for years but the phone company never charges you…sounds like a dream come true, right?
Well, that will never happen and that kind of monitoring has a reason! It costs them (mostly man hours) to maintain their systems. The way the government [...]

There were some pretty nice car sales to benefit charity in this year’s Pebble Beach auctions but unlike with the least expensive car donated selling for over $50,000, they are not the run of the mill type of auction. For the rest of us who have cars that we no longer use, need or want, [...]

It is always fascinating to exit the world of the regular “Joe” and “Jill” car consumer who I am most often speaking to and speaking with about their car options, choices, dreams and lessons learned. This last week I ventured into the world of the real car collectors~ the people who can and do spend [...]

As of last Friday, August 8th, fuel prices at the pump had dropped for the 22nd consecutive day. They have continued to drop but on that day, I decided to ask my busy father of 5 friend, Robert Gonzalez, from Twitter a few questions about how the price drop is affecting his family this summer.
Robert [...]

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Sadly, after likely having waited for over a year to get his new electric supercar, this unlucky San Francisco Tesla owner reportedly crashed only hours after taking delivery. While there were no reports of injuries, that carbon fiber bodywork won’t be cheap to fix.
This crash actually happened right outside of my friend’s apartment building [...]

Be patient with me for minute here and I am going to explain how Subaru’s Travis Pastrana winning the 2008 X-Games Rally Race helps Subaru be a legit environmentally friendly auto manufacturer without having a single alternative energy car in the marketplace.
A bit ago I wrote about Travis Pastrana’s film, 199 Lives in Subaru’s Love [...]

Today my new blogging friend from The Bean Blog told me that her husband sold their oldest son’s Geo Metro while she wasn’t looking. He apparently made a tidy profit on the sale and so now they are having to look for another car for the newly driving teen.
At first I was focused on trying [...]