TurboTap: High Flow Beer Dispenser

It is amazing what a bunch of fluid mechanics engineers can come up with when offered beer. The engineers at Laminar Technologies studied t...

Make Your Caravan A Viper!

The Vroombox is a digital audio player which is designed to make exciting car noises, like an engine revving or tires screeching. Says the...

Forbes' Turkey List

In time for Thanksgiving, Forbes has published its list of automotive turkeys: cars that are selling very poorly. These vehicles all have h...

Phaeton Finale

VW is going to stop importation into the U.S. of the Phaeton luxury sedan, according to Bloomberg News: Volkswagen will pull the Phaeton out...

Heh. [Politics]

Heh. From Dry Bones , a very good political cartoon from Israel.

Rep. Joe Schwarz, Selling Michigan Out

A Michigan Republican Congressman, Joe Schwarz, was a member of a group of "moderate" Republicans which managed to get the ANWR o...

PermaCap Revisited

I previously posted about my mishap with the Kleen Wheels PermaCap , a neat gadget (when it works) that replaces the fuel cap on some cars,...