Ricardo Montalban achieved cultural immortality not for being the genetically enhanced, jump-suited superman Khan on “Star Trek” – or the suave, white-suited Mr. Roark on “Fantasy Island” – but for explaining that his “needs” were completely met by the rich, Corinthian leather-swaddled Chrysler Cordoba. As for the Cordoba – it may have saved Chrysler,...
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Remember two years ago? In the year preceding the election of Obama, there was a massive and genuinely grassroots movement against both entrenched wings of the federal crime syndicate (as Lew Rockwell so perfectly describes the Republican and Democrat parties). Ron Paul and his Libertarian supporters dominated this movement, which was as vocal in...
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Gas prices seem to have stabilized – at least temporarily – at the New Normal of about $2.70 per gallon for regular unleaded. But I miss $4 per gallon gas. Don’t you? I mean, think about it… * There was less traffic out there – If you could still afford to drive, the drive...
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If you own a ’60s or ’70s-era muscle car, you’ve probably become aware of an ironic problem: It is virtually impossible to find high-performance tires for these high-performance beasts. The BF Goodrich Radial T/A (http://www.bfgoodrichtires.com/tire-…dial-t-a-tires) is about as good as it gets – and though it’s a good-looking tire, with handsome raised white lettering,...
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There are a dozen or more compact-sized SUVs on the market, but only a few have real (truck-type) four-wheel-drive – 4WD with Low range gearing. Suzuki’s Grand Vitara is one of these – and it’s got more going for it than just its off-road bona fides. WHAT IT IS The Grand Vitara is compact...
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Here is a fact that some will find hard to swallow: GM’s Oldsmobile division was once the number-three best-selling brand of car in the United States. Believe it or not. Given Oldsmobile’s consumptive decline and sad demise at the dawn of the 21st Century, it’s hard to imagine a time when Oldsmobiles not only...
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Supposed Libertarian Rand Paul is advocating increasing the age of eligibility to receive SS benefits (article follows below). In other words, screw over (again) the younger generation that has been paying (and will continue to pay) the highest SS taxes, for the benefit of the old febes drawing SS today – the febes who...
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The National Safety Council (one of those private but sounds-like-it’s-the government “interest groups”) wants to see cell phone use in cars banned. I hate sail fawns, too. They’re annoying and they’re over-used. Society got along perfectly well without them as recently as the ’90s. But banning their use in vehicles is the automotive equivalent...
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Naming cars, like naming kids, sometimes comes out all wrong. Striving to be cr8tive, some parents cripple their progeny with appellations guaranteed to result in a lifetime of abuse. It’s the same with cars – and the effect can be just as crippling. Check it out: * Ford Probe - In a single stroke,...
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Name any category of vehicle – compact cars, sport sedans, luxury SUVs, crossovers – and there are multiple choices; sometimes as many as a dozen in any single category But the Ford Transit Connect is literally in a class by itself – because no one else sells anything quite like it. WHAT IT IS...
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