AUTOMOTIVE BRAKING 101
CABLES ACTUATED THE EARLIEST CAR BRAKES. Indeed Ford continued with them until 1939. As you might imagine, maintaining equal actuation at all four wheels was a non-trivial matter. Replacing cables … Continue reading
EV VERSUS GASOLINE—IFS, ANDS, BUTS PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, MICHAEL J. COREN began cogent analyses of EV versus gasoline costs, as first appearing in “Is It Cheaper to Refuel your EV Battery or Gas Tank? … Continue reading
EV VERSUS GASOLINE—IFS, ANDS, BUTS PART 1
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I feel like the prototypical EV guy: I’m environmentally hep. I don’t travel much in retirement so considerations of EV range are no big deal. Updating … Continue reading
CALIFORNIA: AN AV LUDDITE OR JUST CAUTIOUS?
MY HOME STATE IS OFTEN criticized for being overly progressive (about things like human rights, y’know). But lately California has adopted less than enthusiasm for AVs, Autonomous Vehicles. Despite being … Continue reading
LISTEN UP! BUT TO WHAT? AND HOW?
THERE’S CONTROVERSY GALORE about old fashioned AM radio these days. At first thought, I would have said this is akin to arguing the merits of floppy discs or BetaMax or … Continue reading
AN EXCEPTIONAL CAR, SORTA
AFTER 33 YEARS OF DRIVING the world’s most exotic cars, my current car continues to be exceptional, by several measures at least. This 2012 Honda Crosstour is some 2.6 years … Continue reading
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS TIDBITS PART 2
YESTERDAY, I GLEANED TIDBITS FROM Automotive News concerning BEV repairability and FCEV Class 8 trucking. Today, this authoritative journal changes pace to discuss Formula 1 research, Britain’s aging car parks, … Continue reading
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS TIDBITS PART 1
THESE DAYS, MORE THAN A DECADE INTO MY blissful retirement fun of SimanaitisSays and GMax time gobbling, I look to the authoritative Automotive News for tidbits, not for incremental details … Continue reading
HURRAH FOR BUTTONS!
I TAKE ERASMUS-LIKE SATISFACTION in reading David Zipper’s “The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature” in Slate, April 26, 2023. Indeed, it was way back on August 31, 2012, … Continue reading
THE LIMOS’ DEMISE, BUT….
“ONCE THE SYMBOL OF AFFLUENCE, the stretch limo has largely fallen out of favor…,” writes Jesus Jiménez in “The Long Demise of the Stretch Limo,” The New York Times, April … Continue reading
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