CAFE Is A Farce

The CAFE rules (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) are a farce. I like to post on this subject, so this isn't the first and won't be th...

Ford Charity Auction on EBay

The Big 3 have had a close relationship with the United Way charity organization for some time, so close that they have used high-pressure t...

Jeremy Clarkson (Heh!)

I realize that I am late to the game, but thanks to MyFordDreams , I have discovered that Jeremy Clarkson (of the BBC's Top Gear auto sh...

Eye Pollution

A quick message to the guy who was driving in front of me on the way to work, the one in the black Ford 500 with huge chrome wheels, chrome ...

Send Robots, Save Money, Save Lives

Not entirely an automotive post, but sort of an engineering post. I recently read about NASA's plans to send astronauts back to the moo...

Wanted: In-Car Bluetooth MP3 Interfaces

I would like to see automakers and their electronics suppliers join with the MP3 makers and the Bluetooth consortium to develop a standardiz...

VW Irrelevant?

Pete DeLorenzo at Auto Extremist says that VW has become irrelevant in the U.S. market. I agree with him. VW has poor quality, high prices,...