2025 Kia Sorento
A couple of months ago, I reviewed the plug-in hybrid version of the Kia Sorento crossover and compared it with its Hyundai-badged fraternal twin,...
2025 Nissan Rogue
The Nissan Rogue is an unassuming small crossover that is also Nissan's best-selling model. More finely, Nissan sells so many of these unassuming small...
2025 Ram 1500 (Again)
When something is replaced by a new thing, it is assumed the new thing is an improved or otherwise better thing. A good way...
2025 Volvo XC60 T8 Polestar
There's a Volvo you might be very interested in if you're looking for something like a Porsche Macan GTS that looks like a Volvo.
A...
2025 Lexus UX300h
Economical is not usually what you get when you buy a luxury-brand car but there are some that are. Perhaps the most famous example...
2025 VW Jetta GLI
Remember when what was once commonly referred to as a standard - that is, a manual - transmission - was . . . commonly...
2025 Honda Prologue
The Honda Prologue isn't really a Honda - in that it's based on the Chevy Blazer EV - but it is different in a...
2025 Mazda CX-90
It's not easy to pick a crossover from among all the other crossovers because so many of them are more or less the same.
One...
Classic Cars
When Turbos Were Power Adders
If you watched the Super Bowl, you probably saw the 1987 Buick Regal Grand National that was part of the show. This car was...
Post Peak Cars
There's not much else that can be done to make new vehicles better - given government constraints.
They cannot, for instance, be made lighter -...
The $33,000 Chevette
Would you pay $33,000 for a 1987 Chevy Chevette? Apparently, someone just did. It's got low miles - just 47 - so it's basically a...
Heater Core Part III
I finally got the leaking heater core out of my old Nissan Frontier ('02 model year, so now 23 years old) and found a...
Rockford’s Car
TV (and movie) cars are often remembered more fondly - and for longer - than the actors who drove them in those shows (and...
Dirty Laundry
I rarely - I don't think I ever have - aired issues I've had with a business I'd dealt with. But I have never...
Collapsing Collector Car Market?
It may soon be a good time to buy that classic car you've always wanted to own - but couldn't afford to buy. The...
Measuring Our Impoverishment (Again)
It is important to remember the way things were - as a way to measure how things are - now. It is especially important...
Motorcycles
Some Therapy
One of the things we can do to mitigate the stress of everything feeling like it's spiraling out of control is to take on...
The Disposable Bike
A riding buddy of mine urges me to buy a disposable bike - though of course he does not call it that. He means...
Missing Two Strokes
There's only one kind of gas-burning engine we're allowed to have, which is a shame for reasons that go beyond the obnoxious effrontery of...
When There’s no Room Left in the Garage
Getting another bike is never a problem; it's all-too-easy to get another bike. They sometimes seem to just show up, like a stray cat...
Have Bike Will Travel
If you were to distill mechanized transportation down to its core essentials, you'd end up with something like the dirt bike - or its...
Insurance Incongruity
Having to buy car insurance - motorcycle insurance, in the case at hand - is bad enough. No one ought to be forced to...
Anecdotal but Interesting
To use - or not to use - synthetic oil in engines made decades before synthetic oils were in common use . . ....
Helmet Laws
If you ride a motorcycle, "the law" - that is to say, busybody people who write them - probably requires that you wear a...
The Enserfment Picks up Speed
How much longer will we be able to pay the mafias?
It is one thing to grumble about being made to hand over money to...
The Lugenpresse
This article is about a picture that tells us a story. The story accompanying the picture is headlined, "Trump maneuvers to outflank California over...
Congestion Pricing is Working!
That's according to CNN, of course.
Of course, "working" means one thing to CNN - and something else to the working and middle-class people who...
Latest Radio: Tom Mullen Show 02/14/2025
Here's the audio (and video) of my talk the other day with Tom Mullen!
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If you like what you've found here please consider...
Who Owns Your Car?
You may have heard about what are styled right to repair laws. The term is a measure of just how owned we've become.
You buy...
Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show/KMED FM 02/13/2025
Here's the audio of this week's Wheels up! segment with Bill Meyer over at KMED FM in Medford, Oregon.
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If you like what...
Trump 2028 . . .
It's a little early yet - but if the changes that appear to be on deck as regards the regulations pertaining to "emissions" of...
Cycles
The Last Thing Anyone Who Rides Needs
Would you believe - say it like Don Adams from Get Smart - that they are beginning to make hybrid motorcycles? Kawasaki, specifically. It...
When One is None
Every now and then you have to relearn a hard lesson. Such as always having at least one spare key for your old bike....
The Disposable Bike
A riding buddy of mine urges me to buy a disposable bike - though of course he does not call it that. He means...
Why Helmet Laws are Silly and Tyrannical
I wanted to remember what it was like to live in a free country - remember when people used to say that? - so...
When There’s no Room Left in the Garage
Getting another bike is never a problem; it's all-too-easy to get another bike. They sometimes seem to just show up, like a stray cat...
Have Bike Will Travel
If you were to distill mechanized transportation down to its core essentials, you'd end up with something like the dirt bike - or its...
Insurance Incongruity
Having to buy car insurance - motorcycle insurance, in the case at hand - is bad enough. No one ought to be forced to...
Mad Max on Two Wheels
I am often asked what I think is the best kind of car to own if things get really bad. I think the best...
New Car Reviews
2025 Kia Sorento
A couple of months ago, I reviewed the plug-in hybrid version of the Kia Sorento crossover and compared it with its Hyundai-badged fraternal twin,...
2025 Nissan Rogue
The Nissan Rogue is an unassuming small crossover that is also Nissan's best-selling model. More finely, Nissan sells so many of these unassuming small...
2025 Ram 1500 (Again)
When something is replaced by a new thing, it is assumed the new thing is an improved or otherwise better thing. A good way...
2025 Volvo XC60 T8 Polestar
There's a Volvo you might be very interested in if you're looking for something like a Porsche Macan GTS that looks like a Volvo.
A...
2025 Lexus UX300h
Economical is not usually what you get when you buy a luxury-brand car but there are some that are. Perhaps the most famous example...
2025 VW Jetta GLI
Remember when what was once commonly referred to as a standard - that is, a manual - transmission - was . . . commonly...
2025 Honda Prologue
The Honda Prologue isn't really a Honda - in that it's based on the Chevy Blazer EV - but it is different in a...
2025 Mazda CX-90
It's not easy to pick a crossover from among all the other crossovers because so many of them are more or less the same.
One...
2025 Kia Sorento
A couple of months ago, I reviewed the plug-in hybrid version of the Kia Sorento crossover and compared it with its Hyundai-badged fraternal twin,...
The Enserfment Picks up Speed
How much longer will we be able to pay the mafias?
It is one thing to grumble about being made to hand over money to...
The Lugenpresse
This article is about a picture that tells us a story. The story accompanying the picture is headlined, "Trump maneuvers to outflank California over...