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...