 March 21st, 2011 |
It seems that most people have yet to notice, but American car companies are back. Well, not necessarily back financially, but for the most part, they’re back to building world class vehicles. Certainly, there are few cars waiting for their refresh or to be dumped and many cars and even brands have simply been [...]
 March 6th, 2011 |
 October 30th, 2010 |
Until my new wheels and tires for my truck arrived from Tire Rack yesterday, I didn’t even know that dual bolt pattern wheels were made. The bolt pattern for a wheel is the layout of the lugs (the bolts) that protrude from the car’s hub and are used to attach the wheel to the [...]
 May 4th, 2010 |
In the June issue of Car and Driver magazine, Aaron Robinson has a different cut on the Toyota unintended acceleration problem (can’t find it online yet). He states that in the great scheme of things, maybe it’s not a problem at all; maybe faster-moving Toyotas will keep them from blocking the left lane so [...]
 June 23rd, 2009 |
My good friend Dave just sent me an article from Wired magazine, “MIT Hopes to Exorcise ‘Phantom’ Traffic Jams,” about research going on at MIT in mathematically modeling randomly occurring traffic jams to discover their source as well as potential remedies. Since I’m not a mathematician, I developed a somewhat less scientific theory as [...]
 June 15th, 2009 |
Mercedes has always been a leading innovator of safety gizmos that help pull your vehicular ass out of the frying pan when things go terribly, terribly wrong. Every once in a while, they show off what’s next in preventing your insides from becoming your outsides in an auto accident with a marketing-oriented test vehicle. [...]
 May 6th, 2009 |
So, I was in Cambridge, MA last week and parked in a public lot while attending the TechStars Boston Mentor Dinner (really great group, BTW). I searched the 10,000 little signs around the lot to find out if I needed to fill a meter somewhere and felt fairly secure that I didn’t [...]
 May 4th, 2009 |
I’m a car guy. I’ve owned many cars and have driven dozens that I haven’t had the opportunity to own (yet). Hands down, my all time favorite car was my new, at the time, 1984 Camaro Z28 HO (High Output). An 80s example of the classic American muscle car. It had a clutch pedal [...]
 April 14th, 2009 |
My son and I once again visited the Big Apple to see what the remaining industrial might of the automotive world has to offer. Since between the two of us, we read almost every English language car magazine published and cruise virtually all the automotive blogs that Google can dig up, there are hardly [...]
 February 10th, 2009 |
The back pages of auto magazines are famous for being loaded with advertisements for somewhat . . . let’s say, questionable, goods and services. Pheromone supplements for your aftershave, slinky outfits for your [in]significant other, a variety of tools and chemicals to increase the length of certain body parts or the amount of time [...]
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