By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist I miss glass headlights. They didn’t yellow and haze over like a 90- year-old man’s rheumy eyes — like modern plastic headlight “assemblies” always do after just three or four years. Then your car looks old, too. While it’s true the modern plastic “assemblies” are brighter when new, when old, […]
2012 Hyundai Accent Review
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist If you go test-drive a new economy compact — any new economy compact — you will discover something the car industry would probably prefer to keep quiet: There are no latter-day Chevettes or Pintos. There’s nothing embarrassing about any of them. You might want to spend more to get a […]
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: April 25, 2012
Each Wednesday, we’ll publish quick summaries of the articles from the last week on TheNewspaper.com. We’re doing this because these articles are often strongly connected to the issues that National Motorists Association members are interested in. Wednesday, April 25, 2012 South Dakota Supreme Court: Avoiding Nighttime Roadblock is Suspicious Avoiding a roadblock is, in effect, […]
A Permanent Temporary Source of Funding
By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” — Rahm Emanuel A reporter found the next manufactured crisis that will allow Massachusetts to keep collecting Turnpike tolls more than 30 years after the road was supposed to become free. Like many toll roads, the Massachusetts Turnpike was built in […]
“Your” Car Won’t Be After 2015
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist After a certain point, it’s not paranoia. The latest brick in the wall is the predictably named “Moving Ahead For Progress in the 21st Century Act,” also known as Senate Bill 1813. (See here for the full text of the bill itself; the relevant section is 31406.) This legislation — […]
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