Automakers have reached a fork in the hatchback-riddled road. Do they follow the hybrid path, and hope that the microscopic 2.2% market share that hybrids held in 2016 improves drastically,…
Operation Frodo: How A Mission To Save One Dog Became A Movement.
Three years ago just a few weeks before Christmas, fellow auto journalist, Nik Miles put out the call for people to help him pick up an adopted beagle from a…
Operation Frodo: A Mission For Dogs
Road trip: Michigan to Alaska and Back Airstream-style
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Diversions
Thursday CarTunes: Joe Walsh, Life’s Been Good, and the Maserati Bora
by Harvey Briggs August 3, 2017The Song The life of a rock star has often been chronicled in song. Rarely, however, has it been captured so honestly and irreverently as Joe Walsh did in his…
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Forgetting that you put something in the back seat of your car and leaving it there can be more than just annoying. Sometime’s it’s tragic. On average 36 children die…
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Diversions
The Great Eight: stunning National Parks that aren’t Yellowstone
by Carolyn Briggs August 2, 2017If you’re someone who spends vacation time fleeing the city, you probably already have some great experiences at national parks. They are cheap and accessible, and almost always offer more…
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News
BMW’s i3 Spaghetti Car is a Real Thing and Someone Just Bought it for $116,775
by Vicki Arkoff July 28, 2017Proving, one can suppose, that BMW has something for every taste, a Swiss collector bought a BMW i3 painted like a big pile of marinara-drenched spaghetti for €100,000 (approximately US$116,775).…
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Yes, that is her real name. And no, she wasn’t named after the four-seat, two-door compact hatchback from Chevrolet. It was introduced 21 years after she was born. Suzanne Vega was born in California…