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2024 Audi A5 Coupe

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There used to be a kind of car called the personal luxury coupe. These were mid-sized two doors with four usable seats and a...

2024 Mazda CX-5

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Sometimes, a new model is sold alongside the model it was meant to replace - chiefly because the old model is still selling well....

2024 Hyundai Venue

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You have probably read that the average price paid for a new vehicle approaches $50,000. How about one that costs less than half as...

2024 VW Atlas

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VW's largest-ever vehicle - the three row/seven-passenger Atlas - is powered by an engine not much larger than the one that powered the old...

2024 Toyota 4Runner

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In the department of get it while you can, you might want to get a '24 Toyota 4Runner with a V6 - and without...

2024 Cadillac Escalade

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Is a Cadillac Escalade worth $20k more than a GMC Yukon? Is a GMC Yukon worth $4k more than a Chevy Tahoe? All three are...

2024 Chrysler Pacifica

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Remember when practically every car company was selling minivans? Today, that's all Chrysler still sells. It's also a nearly $62k minivan - in top-of-the-line Pinnacle...

2024 Chevy Colorado

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It’s a weird thing. As trucks have gotten bigger, their engines have gotten smaller. Also fewer - as in the case of the 2024 Chevrolet...

Classic Cars

Why Manuals Matter

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The manual transmission has become something of a rarity, even in vehicles that used to commonly come standard - play on words intended -...

How Times Have Changed

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Not only did cars used to have ashtrays - they often had several. My '76 Pontiac Trans-Am has three. One up front for the...

Are Old Cars Practical As Daily Drivers?

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This is an addendum to the Precious Metals story the other day; I thought it was worth going into the subject more deeply because...

Precious Metal Investing

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Lots of people buy precious metals - gold and silver - to retain the value their paper dollars would otherwise be losing by not...

What Most of Us Don’t Do Anymore

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The other day, I started up my old muscle car. This involves something more than pushing the "start" button - which is how you...

The Decontented Car

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Everyone has heard about muscle cars - but how many remember decontented cars? Often, such cars were both. Examples include the "5.0" liter iterations of...

A Lift That Works

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If you like to work on cars you probably hate crawling around underneath one, trying to get at things you can't easily reach -...

Ford Mustang: 1964-2028?

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We already know that the first will be the last - again. Ford's Mustang didn't just precede the Chevy Camaro and the Dodge Challenger. It...

Motorcycles

Anecdotal but Interesting

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To use - or not to use - synthetic oil in engines made decades before synthetic oils were in common use . . ....

Helmet Laws

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If you ride a motorcycle, "the law" - that is to say, busybody people who write them  - probably requires that you wear a...

Motorcycle Clovers

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Regular readers of this column already know what a Clover is. It is someone who - among other things - refuses to move over...

My Bike is Like an EV

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I was out riding my motorcycle the other day and it occurred to me - as I glanced at the odometer, which you do...

The Air Bag You Wear

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People ride motorcycles because they aren't cars - and this goes much deeper than the obvious. Motorcycles are free of almost all of the crap...

Some Therapy

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Sometimes brakes stop you - from going. It happens when the brake calipers clamp onto the rotors and don't let go. This happens, typically, because...

Hardly Able

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People who ride motorcycles still care about motorcycles - as opposed to all-too-many-drivers, who view cars as appliances. Who have been conditioned to view...

Waiting for Spring

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When the priests sealed the door on King Tut's tomb, the Pharaoh was left to sleep for the next 3,000 years. Spring often feels...

Elections Matter

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Yes, I know. This dirty business of elections is just what Bismarck meant when he spoke of sausage making and how you'll never want...

The Return of Badge Engineering

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Why did GM retire its Pontiac and Oldsmobile brands? It was because they'd stopped engineering cars. They had become marketing divisions for the same...

Latest Radio: Bryan Hyde Show 03/26/2024

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Here's the audio of this week's talk with my friend Bryan Hyde, host of the Bryan Hyde Show in Utah! We talked about the...

Diaper Report: 03/26/2024

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Something interesting - and revelatory - to report: The actor Forrie Smith was apparently kicked off a commercial flight recently, after he refused to...

Unintended Consequences

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Unintended consequences can be beautiful things - when they are contrary to the intentions of malicious people. A good example being the unintended consequences...

Empty Houses

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During the early months of what was marketed as the "pandemic," I noticed that people weren't dying. At least not obviously - as you'd...

Would You Still Want to Drive . . .

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What if you had to obey - to the letter - every single traffic law, from no-right-on red to no-passing if the pass requires...

The Hybrid Trap

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Don't be fooled. They are still coming after your car. More accurately, they are still determined to use the regulations that are forcing electric...

Cycles

Mad Max on Two Wheels

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I am often asked what I think is the best kind of car to own if things get really bad. I think the best...

Anecdotal but Interesting

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To use - or not to use - synthetic oil in engines made decades before synthetic oils were in common use . . ....

They’re Coming for Bikes Next . . .

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Most people who ride motorcycles do it because they want to. A motorcycle is - usually - not the primary instrument of transportation. It...

A Casualty of Revenue Collecting

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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...

Helmet Laws

123
If you ride a motorcycle, "the law" - that is to say, busybody people who write them  - probably requires that you wear a...

Motorcycle Clovers

82
Regular readers of this column already know what a Clover is. It is someone who - among other things - refuses to move over...

My Bike is Like an EV

29
I was out riding my motorcycle the other day and it occurred to me - as I glanced at the odometer, which you do...

Sorry, it Isn’t . . .

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It's important to be clear about what we're talking about - whether it's men and women or motorcycles and scooters. The other day I read...

New Car Reviews

2024 Audi A5 Coupe

7
There used to be a kind of car called the personal luxury coupe. These were mid-sized two doors with four usable seats and a...

2024 Mazda CX-5

4
Sometimes, a new model is sold alongside the model it was meant to replace - chiefly because the old model is still selling well....

2024 Hyundai Venue

28
You have probably read that the average price paid for a new vehicle approaches $50,000. How about one that costs less than half as...

2024 VW Atlas

12
VW's largest-ever vehicle - the three row/seven-passenger Atlas - is powered by an engine not much larger than the one that powered the old...

2024 Toyota 4Runner

24
In the department of get it while you can, you might want to get a '24 Toyota 4Runner with a V6 - and without...

2024 Cadillac Escalade

40
Is a Cadillac Escalade worth $20k more than a GMC Yukon? Is a GMC Yukon worth $4k more than a Chevy Tahoe? All three are...

2024 Chrysler Pacifica

15
Remember when practically every car company was selling minivans? Today, that's all Chrysler still sells. It's also a nearly $62k minivan - in top-of-the-line Pinnacle...

2024 Chevy Colorado

16
It’s a weird thing. As trucks have gotten bigger, their engines have gotten smaller. Also fewer - as in the case of the 2024 Chevrolet...

Elections Matter

0
Yes, I know. This dirty business of elections is just what Bismarck meant when he spoke of sausage making and how you'll never want...

The Return of Badge Engineering

91
Why did GM retire its Pontiac and Oldsmobile brands? It was because they'd stopped engineering cars. They had become marketing divisions for the same...

2024 Audi A5 Coupe

7
There used to be a kind of car called the personal luxury coupe. These were mid-sized two doors with four usable seats and a...
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