Tornado Helmets!

Safety Research Strategies (Sean Kane's outfit), the one that has been pushing the claim that unintended acceleration on the part of Toy...

Mercedes: Be Like Che

Mercedes uses a huge photo of Che Guevara and a joke about revolution during a presentation in Las Vegas at CES.   Silly Mercedes.  Perha...

Obama Campaigns On Insourcing

Oh, the irony. President Barack Obama held up Ford Motor Co. as an example of companies that are contributing to the economy by bringing...

2013 Nissan Pathfinder: Unibody!

The demise of the old-school body-on-frame SUV continues.  One of the older models on the market, the Nissan Pathfinder, is following in the...

Review: Mexican Coke

The other day I saw glass bottles of Coke for sale at the local upscale supermarket, for the princely sum or $1/each.  I had heard that some...

Fighting Comment Spam

Ugh, I am being inundated with comment spam. I am tightening the policy for comments, from now on, only users with an OpenID or other form t...

Fisker Suspension

Edmunds has a very nice photo review of the Fisker Karma suspension. My takeaway: heavy car, expensive chassis, very complex.   But also ...