industry Aptera: Quirky Toy or Real Car? Here is a short list of reasons why I think that the Aptera will be a low volume toy for the rich or idealistic, and not a mass market tran...
industry Silly Mazda, No iPod Controls By now, just about everyone in the U.S. has an Apple iPod, or one of the many competitors. Most automakers have rightly realized that allow...
industry Carnival Of Cars: Ides Of March Edition Mark Tapscott , after doing yoemans work on Carnival Of Cars (which, you may remember, was started here) has been fairly silent lately. So,...
industry Never Buy a Salvage Car That Has Been "Clipped" You need a car, and you don't have much money. You find a guy on Craigslist selling a salvage-titled vehicle which has been "expe...
industry Fuel-less Jeep? I saw a Google text ad for Jeep on this blog today, which says: Loading... Jeep hybrid vehicle Learn More About the New Jeep Fuel-less Vehic...
industry European Child Seat Testing Video A fellow from Poland (I think) sent me a link to his YouTube page, which features various videos relating to child seat safety. This one is...
industry Depressing Scenes At The Motor Mall I drove through the Troy motor mall today. If you are local, you know about it, it is a huge collection of car dealerships clustered togeth...
industry Standalone Saturn? There has much discussion recently in the press about the possible future of Saturn as a stand-alone auto company. One scenario has GM spin...
politics The Beginning Of The End Of Personal Mobility? Mark Tapscot is feeling down on the auto business, judging by his latest blog post, here . In it he points out that the leftist technocrats...
How To Watch A Movie On Your PC, The Fun Way I recently discovered VLC. VLC (www.videolan.org) is an open source media player application which can handle just about any kind of file y...
Dissecting The Stimulus Bill I spent a few minutes combing through the final version of the economic stimulus bill passed by the U.S. Congress (the huge PDF files are av...
My New Gadget: WD TV Up to this point, my favorite a/v gadget has been my Roku Soundbridge wireless MP3 player. But the other day, I got a Western Digital TV H...