A Piece of Tape Works – For Now
By Eric Peters For NMA First came ASS – the acronym that stands for Automatic Stop/Start, the system that automatically shuts off the vehicle’s engine every time the vehicle stops moving, then automatically restarts it when the driver lifts his foot off the brake. At first – when ASS began to mysteriously appear in new […]
New Car Review: 2024 BMW i4
By Eric Peters For NMA Most EVs cost tens of thousands more than otherwise similar (and even otherwise identical) gas-engined vehicles. There’s much less of a price to be paid – in the literal sense – when you buy BMW’s i4 rather than a 4-Series Gran Coupe with an engine. As well as in another […]
Missing the 1 Million Mark…
By Eric Peters For NMA GM’s CEO, Mary Barra, predicted it would be producing (and presumably, selling) one meeeeeellion – cue Dr. Evil voice – battery powered devices by the end of next year. How many devices has GM emitted so far? 75,386 during all of last year. Only about 925,000 devices to go! Barra […]
The Safety Fallacy
By Eric Peters For NMA It wasn’t the government that made cars safer to drive. It was the free market that made them less likely to crash. Which made them safer to drive. As opposed to “safer” to crash. The latter is what we get from government, which has also made cars more likely to […]
New SUV Review: 2024 Land Rover Defender
By Eric Peters For NMA The Land Rover Defender is – and has – a number of things almost nothing else is (or has). First, it’s not just one thing. It’s your pick of several. Short or long wheelbase. Two or four doors. Two – or three rows of seats. Or, skip the seats. It […]
New Car Review: 2024 Ford Mustang
By Eric Peters For NMA Sixty years ago – the Ford Mustang’s first year – the Mustang had no competitors to worry about. That changed quickly, due to the Mustang’s popularity. Within three years of its 1964 debut, the Mustang had to face multiple competitors, including the Chevy Camaro. It’s about to change back to […]
Speed Limiters Will Kill Driving
By Eric Peters For NMA You’ve probably heard about what is being marketed as “speed limit assistance technology.” The italics to make a point of the fact about what is – as opposed to what they’re trying to get you to believe it is. It is not about “assisting” you – just as you are […]
A Casualty of Revenue Collection
By Eric Peters, NMA Member and Syndicated Columnist They say “speed kills.” Here is a case-in-point. A cop driving at very high speed struck and killed a motorcycle rider who had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time — that place and time being in the path of the […]
New SUV Review: 2024 Jeep Renegade
By Eric Peters, NMA Member and Syndicated Columnist Most crossovers have — or offer — all-wheel-drive. Most SUVs have — or offer — four-wheel-drive. Both systems drive all four wheels, but AWD is usually less capable off-road than 4WD. On the other hand, AWD has the upside of fewer parts, less weight and so (usually) […]
Speeding in the Rearview
By Eric Peters, NMA Member and Syndicated Columnist The country saying goes, Let’s you and him fight. The government deploys a variation of the logic underlying this saying when someone else does something stupid or criminal to impose restrictions and punishments . . . on you and me. Who didn’t do it. A drug-addled maniac […]