Are Gadgets Ruining Cars?
Gadget blog Gizmodo had a post yesterday entitled, "The Gadgetization of Cars is Kind of Ruining Them." As a lover of both cars and gadgets, as well as cars with gadgets, I took...
Review: 2011 Chevrolet Suburban LTZ 4×4
By Chris Haak I was in Boy Scouts when I was a kid. We had our meetings each Tuesday night at a local gun club, since they were my troop's sponsoring organization. Aside from...
Do Ford’s High Fleet Sales Make the Tundra Look Bad?
Last Friday, I received a note on our article that asked "What happened to the Tundra?" from Jason Lancaster, administrator of TundraHeadquarters.com that prompted me to take a...
IIHS Releases Vehicle Death Rates For 2006-2009
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recently released a major study regarding death rates from auto accidents, and while the results are not unexpected, they do...
Japanese Auto Manufacturers Demand Weaker Yen
By Chris Haak The Japanese Automobile Manufacturer's Association (JAMA) and the Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers’ Unions (CJAWU) released a joint statement yesterday...
Ford Expects to Increase Sales By 50 Percent By 2015
By Chris Haak Yesterday in New York, Ford Motor Company executives told reporters and investors that the company expected to increase its global sales by 50 percent by 2015 to...
Review: 2011 Buick Regal CXL Turbo
By Chris Haak In our recent review of the Audi A5, Kevin Miller talked about some of the "forbidden fruit" of European cars that aren't sold in the US, but coveted by gearheads...
What Happened to the Tundra?
By Chris Haak Way back in the 2007 model year, you may recall that things looked quite different in the auto industry. Neither GM nor Chrysler had declared bankruptcy; GM was...
Fiat Acquires a Majority Stake in Chrysler
By Chris Haak Last week, about two years after exiting bankruptcy protection, Chrysler Group LLC has repaid its outstanding government loans. Between a $5.9 billion...
Study Says Most Drivers Would Fail Written Driver Exams if Re-Tested
By Chris Haak If you're more than 32 years old, chance are that you've now been driving for more years than you have not been driving. I got my license at age 16, so I just...