The Car That Almost Was
In the department of What Might Have Been, we find a car almost no one who isn’t a car industry insider has ever heard of — but which very nearly was. You haven’t heard of it for good reason. Well, good reason from the point of view of other insiders—the ones inside the government. It is a car […]
Tempus Fugit – the glorious ’94 Mustang GT
The other day, I found myself behind what — to me — is a relatively new and undoubtedly modern Mustang GT from the mid-’90s wearing “antique” tags. Holy tempus fugit! Was 1994 really 25 years ago? Yup. It was. And this ’94 Mustang GT is now an antique which means I am, too. Both of […]
Electric Cars cause a Jam
Electric Car Company Tesla’s Founder Elon Musk just admitted something which is getting very little coverage and no explanation. He announced that Tesla would no longer be selling the “affordable” $35,000 Model 3 he promised would be Tesla’s first mass-market electric car. Like so many of Elon’s promises, that one’s out the window, too. The […]
Electric Cars at the Crossroads
Have you ever heard the story about Robert Johnson at the crossroads? Johnson was a blues man, back in the ‘20s. The story goes he acquired his skill as a blues man by signing a contract with Legba, a term now out of currency for you-know-who. The Devil, in case you don’t. Johnson sold his […]
Will the 2020 Corvette be a True Corvette?
Where should a Corvette’s engine be? Historically, it has always been up front and usually under a rear-opening hood which made it easier to see the Corvette’s engine—a very American big V8 in all its insolently crude (pushrod, single cam, two-valve, and no turbo) glory. This separated Corvette from European exotics, with their usually smaller, […]
Cycle Therapy
There are sound, practical reasons for owning a motorcycle that transcend fantastic gas mileage and low buy-in cost. I speak of the therapeutic aspects of motorcycle ownership. Knowing you have one; that it’s out in the garage ready to go whenever you are. Just looking at it is therapeutic even if you can’t ride it […]
Lido Has Shuffled—a Tribute to the Genius of Lee Iacocca
Lee Iacocca just died. And with him, an era. The era of the car guy executive. Iacocca wasn’t a transplant from a toothpaste company and he was an engineer, not a “human resources” manager. He smoked cigars, told ribald stories. Most of all, Lido knew cars and the car business. Put more precisely, he knew […]
Why You Can’t Afford to Not Buy a Classic Car!
If you like cars, you probably like classic cars. Like looking at them, at least. But if you’re like most of us, you probably don’t own one — because you’ve probably never been able to afford one. Well, now you can. At least, if you can afford a new car. Which, arguably, no one can. […]
How Does Elon Musk Get Away With It?
How does he get away with it? The simple answer is the press lets him. Over and over and over again. Ludicrous claims that ought to trigger the raising of hands–if not questions about his sanity are stenographed onto laptops and formatted into copy and clicked and sent all over the Internet as imminent, given, […]
Classic Cars and Classic Owners
Are old cars for old people? It seems to be so — if you go by what one typically sees at an old car show. The owners are mostly at least as old as their cars — and most of them are more than 40 years old, which is roughly the line of demarcation between […]