The JD Power 3YIS Survey

The results of JD Power's 3 years-in-service quality survey have been posted. There is some good news here for Detroit: Ford, GM, and C...

Subaru Tribeca: Ugly?

I am on the fence. I can't make up my mind if the Subaru Tribeca is ugly, or merely uninteresting. When I look at pictures on the web, I...

The "Hat Tip" [Blogging]

It has become customary among bloggers to give credit to other bloggers if they were the source of a news item or blog idea, using the ...

The Horror: No Cable TV!

From a recent Detroit News story about the coming benefits war between GM and the UAW: Doris Wamsley, a 78-year-old widow in Flint, fears s...

Keep Kicking, LIttle One [Culture]

Susan Torres was a 26 year old pregnant wife and mother, who collapsed on May 7th, 2005. At the hospital, it was discovered that she had adv...

The 500MPG Trick

A "fact" has been swishing around the 'net for a while now. Certain greenies are promoting the idea of a 500MPG car, based a c...

Tragedy in NJ

On Friday, the bodies of three little boys were found in the trunk of a Toyota Camry. They had been missing from their Camden, New Jersey ne...

Rooting For the Little Guy

Uzi Nissan is the owner of Nissan Computer, and the original owner of the web sites www.nissan.com and www.nissan.net , which he registere...

Fire In Detroit

Breaking news (as of ~11:00pm) a massive fire has broken out in a warehouse that is in the same area in Detroit as the original Ford Model-T...

OCR For Your Car

Bosch has developed a digital camera based system which reads traffic signs as you pass them. The system could be used to inform the driver...

She Had a Sawn-Off [Politics]

A gun-control activist, Sheila Eccleston , was recently arrested when she admitted to police that she was keeping a sawed-off shotgun in her...

The Lienerts: Apple Vs. Orange

I am starting to think that Anita and Paul Lienert, the married pair of automotive writers who do reviews for the Detroit News, are nuts. Pr...

Not All Of Us Are Guys

Just when you were settled in the assumption that all auto bloggers are male, I have just found out by reading Joe Sherlock's blog that...

Office Chair Racing

No steering, brakes, or suspension. 2" plastic tires. Brave. Courtesy Yahoo Photos

Lutz Throws Gauntlet

In today's blog post , Bob Lutz dares us to compare: Today, we'’re operating on a much more emotional, creative level and our de...

Escaping Cuba [Politics]

Cubans are so desperate to get out of Castro's socialist "paradise", they risk their lives in boats cobbled together from old ...

Free Ford Video Game

Ford is offering a free video game for download . The game has players driving Focuses, and if they do well, they can move up to Mustangs a...

The Redemption of the Pushrod?

Various pundits occasionally slap GM for selling pushrod engines. I have even been known to do it myself. But I have come to understand and ...

Fairlane Coming; Windstar/Freestar Dead

According to Edmunds , Ford will build a tall wagon crossover which will be similar to the Fairlane concept, for the 2008MY. It will be base...

John Kerry: C Average Student [Politics]

During the 2004 presidential campaign, John Kerry was protrayed as the intellectual candidate, by his supporters, and George W. Bush was por...

AFA Stands Down For Now

The American Family Association has suspended its call for a boycott of Ford, after a Texas dealer offered to mediate discussions between Fo...

Veyron on Ebay

I don't think my Paypal account will cover this Bugatti Veyron that is being auctioned on Ebay Motors. Even if I did have the wampum, I...

Apples and Cars

Today Apple announced that it will be switching from Freescale (Formerly Motorola) PowerPC processors to Intel CPUs for the future generat...

Heh. [Politics]

Hilarious post from FrankJ, titled "Gotta Gitmo Respect", detailing the "TOP TEN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GITMO AND A GULAG"....

"Driving By Women Leads to Evil"

In Saudi Arabia, a public outcry has arisen because a legislator proposed allowing women to drive. "Driving by women leads to evil,...

Christians Boycott Ford

The Christian group American Family Association has organized a boycott of Ford Motor Co., based on Ford's support for homosexual group...

Parking Idiots, Beware!

I have received my shipment of Iparklikeanidiot.com bumper stickers. As advertised, they are not too sticky. I will carry my new weapon i...

We Should Remember

On Feb 19th, 1945, 30,000 US Marines landed on Iwo Jima, followed later by 40,000 more. Iwo Jima is a small speck of volcanic rock, only 8 s...

Danica Patrick, Lucky and Good

I missed the Indy, but I do have it on VHS. Reading the reports, Danica Patrick had a very strong run, but she made some big mistakes. She q...

A Little "Shop Talk" [Blogging]

A little shop talk about reading and writing blogs. I found this awesome, free piece of software called Plucker which will grab web pages, ...

Forbes Autos Site

There is a new automotive web site up, Forbes Autos . It looks like one to keep an eye on. Forbes regularly carries Jerry Flint's, er,...

Carnival of Cars #2

Welcome to the second Carnival of Cars! (...and welcome to Instapundit readers! Thanks, Glenn!) A minor change from #1, I have grouped item...

Land Rover Poseur

Today, driving home in the evening, I saw one of these, a Land Rover with a snorkel: (just an example) Was it covered in mud? Did it have r...

The Cross Lander: How I Learned to Love Regulations

Autoblog had a news item recently about the travails of Cross Lander. Cross Lander USA is a company that wants to import Romanian built 4x4...

Parking Revenge, The Legal Way

Carpundit posts some musings on Parking Vigilantes--people who strike out against people who mis-park, by keying the offender's car. Us...

The End of Swedish Saabs?

Autoblog is reporting that the Saab 9-5 will move to Germany when it changes over to a new generation, leaving Trollhattan with no volume S...

Denver J [Culture]

I heard an interview on the radio this morning (760 WJR) with 6 year old Denver J., a little boy who is fighting Leukemia. Denver recently h...

The Oil-change Conspiracy

I recently had this conversation, about oil change intervals, with a relative. She has been indoctrinated to change her oil every 3,000 mile...

Heh. [Politics]

Publishing a picture of Saddam in his underpants was not a great thing to do. However, on the whole, my reaction is similar to these Iraqis...

Enough GM Bashing, Mitsubishi's Eclipse Sunset

There are pundits who are harping on about GM's decline, some as bold as to declare a GM "death watch". And, they may be right...

"Store Wars" Parody [Politics]

The National Organic Trade Association (not to be confused with NATO) has come up with a hilarious spoof of Star Wars called Store Wars. You...

Visteon Plants Come Home

According to the Detroit News , in order to keep Visteon from going bankrupt, Ford will take back 15 parts plants and their unionized workfo...

Autoprophet Drinks Coke [Politics]

Recently at a graduation speech, the President of Pepsi, Mrs. Indra Nooyi, compared the United States to the middle finger of one's hand...

Mustang GT500 Movie

Here is a little movie for the Mustang fanatics, courtesy of Blue Oval News . It shows Carol Shelby flogging a GT500 prototype at Ford'...

My Mustang GT Review (Power Corrupts...)

I had the chance to take a friend's brand new Mustang GT manual on a drive today. A bright red specimen, with retro wheels, and the chea...

Forbes: Big 2 Underrated

Steve Forbes , in the May 23rd issue of his magazine, writes that Ford and GM are underrated, financially. He argues that better products ar...

Some People Like Retro

James Lileks , for example (HT: Joe Sherlock): Today we went through many web pages looking at many cars, and it was depressing; most mid-p...

GM Kills V10

According to a post in GMInsidenews (HT: Angry Engineer), GM is stopping work on a pushrod V10 engine that was supposed to be an even highe...

Carnival of Cars #1

( For the first try, these are just the car blog posts that I liked. In the future, maybe people could suggest which posts they thought whe...

Jumbo Mini Prom-Mobile

"Understated elegance"... ...overstated intelligence. What next? A Miata limo? Maybe a stretch motorcycle? Update: Oops, found ...

The CAW Posture

I heard an interesting interview of the Canadian Auto Worker's president, Buzz Hargrove, on the Paul W. Smith show on WJR this morning. ...

Batman Called...

...and he wants his car back. This is a picture of the Maybach Exelero concept (HT: Autoblog ) I think it looks very... Teutonic. Kind of a...

Ramming the Iceberg

From the Detroit News, a report that GM is going to increase production at its full size truck plants, "in anticipation of a surge in...

New Mach 1?

Today while driving in to work, I saw a bright red M-plate (manufacturers plate) 2005 Mustang GT, with a functional "shaker" type...

Price Gouging

Some shoppers get upset when a dealer adds a "market adjustment" to the MSRP of a hot new car, such as the Toyota Prius or Ford GT...

NHTSA Shoots Down Fire Extinguisher Industry

Autoblog has an item about how NHTSA has denied a request from the Fire Equipment Manufacturers Association ( news story here ). The FEMA (...

They Are Listening

Here is a good reason to blog: the automakers are monitoring the enthusiast forums and blogs, looking for feedback, buzz, and mis-informati...

Putin's Ride

When foreign leaders visit George W. Bush at his ranch in Crawford, TX, he takes them on a ride in his F250. When foreign leaders visit Vla...

Polling the Customers

I saw a news item recently that Ford has posted a "build your Fusion" web site ( here ). What is new about this is that the Fusio...

Blog Ethics: Employers and Employees [Culture]

Aish HaTorah's "The Jewish Ethicist" has a fascinating article on the ethicss of blogging, specifically, if an employer can fi...

Thank You, Vietnam Veterans [Politics]

If anyone reading this blog is a Vietnam Veteran, let me take a moment to say: Thank you for our service to our country, and may God bless y...

GMF?

Bob at Cars!Cars!Cars! predicts that GM and Ford will have to merge to survive. This is an interesting idea, and makes a certain amount of ...

The Hygasm

There is a new blog in town, pumping out all hybrids all the time. A project of the far left Union of Concerned Scientists , a cabal of coll...

The Supplier Standoff

GM and Ford both buy many key parts from their former parts divisions, which they spun off as Delphi and Visteon. Delphi and Visteon are in...