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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]