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...

The Story Behind the Photo [Politics]

Here is the story behind the photo of the U.S. soldier and little girl I posted a link to earlier. HT: LGF.

He Practiced What He Preached

He practiced what he preached, and it came back and bit him. Automuse relates the story of a college senior, who editorialized against wea...

Explorer Nose Job

AutoBlog points out that the new front end design on the 2006 Ford Explorer is not terribly exciting. I find the bling annoying, it looks ...

The "Insurgency"

Warning: disturbing photo ahead This photo, of an American soldier cradling a bloody child after a suicide bomb attack in Iraq is probably ...

Hummer H3: DOA?

The Angry Engineer blogs about the disastrous GM Colorado light pickup truck. This will go down as one of the worst business decisions in t...

Flushing Out The Cell Phones

What is going on with people's manners? Today at work, a guy got a call on his cell while he was sitting on a toilet in the men's ro...

Social Security Exceptions

Another quick note on Social Security. Did you know that millions of workers are exempt from Social Security? State and local government emp...

Volvo: Do The Right Thing

If you buy a Volvo, there are several traits that you expect from the car. You expect longevity, and you expect safety. Longevity is a tradi...

Suze Orman: FUD* in Detroit

I heard Suze Orman , the well known motivational speaker and "personal finance expert", on Paul W. Smith's morning show (760AM...