There are some who are quick to bark that “driving a minivan makes you less of a man”. Not only is that an inane notion, it also sheds a less than flattering light on those men who apparently must seek validation in the form an automobile, guys who, for whatever […]
Direct from NAIAS, here are the Top 6 New Mid-Life Crisis Cars from the Detroit Auto Show! The skeletal ceiling above the exhibit halls of Detroit’s Cobo Center is a rubix cube of jet black piping, vice grips and lighting rigs. Yet, as if an elaborate magic trick, there are somehow […]
Aside from the decision whether or not to plunk down, say, $1200 for a Sleep Number, Simmons, Serta or another brand of mattress invariably beginning with the letter ‘S’ after lying horizontal while fully clothed, sneakers on, for a period of time not greater than 23 seconds, is anything more […]
From the lofty heights of the continental divide some 12,000 feet into the Colorado Rocky Mountains, with snowcapped peaks piercing heavenly blue skies, to the dramatic depths and oppressive heat of Badwater Basin, a staggering 282 feet below sea level in Death Valley National Park in California; and then […]
I am a unashamed newb when it comes to the world of auto racing. Save for that time I drove a Ferrari very swiftly around a scorching hot Vegas track a few years back, I barely know my way around a race course. To further illustrate that point, I had […]
This post is about cars but it’s also about photos; those we have, those we don’t, and those we’ll see in our mind’s eye until the end of days. A photogenic memory isn’t something I could legitimately claim to have. I’d be found out the minute someone asked me to […]
Well this is an absurd and ridiculously disturbing report: “The most recent National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS) found that restraint use for children from birth to seven years old in 2013 dropped two percent compared to 2012, and child restraint use in the rear seats also decreased two percent during that time.” I mean, seriously? […]
A part of me — the rough and rugged part that doesn’t get much air time, the part of me that pines to call a woodshed home, the part of me that revels in the rare chance to work with my bare hands — still lusts for a Toyota truck. […]
