National Motorists Association Blog

It was once a kind of automotive axiom that if you liked to drive, you aspired to own a BMW. They were, after all, the ultimate driving machines, and that wasn’t advertising hype. It was a behind-the-wheel fact. BMW was among the first to make four doors and fun driving not mutually exclusive. They did it […]

The best car is one that comes more than just one way. Honda’s Civic comes three ways—two doors, four doors or five doors—and with your pick of four different engines, paired with your choice of two different transmissions. A Honda Civic can fit almost anyone’s needs, which makes the 2020 model very appealing! What It Is The […]

Many car companies have given up on sedans altogether because buyers have been giving up on sedans. Ford and GM, for instance, have stopped making most of the ones they used to make. Because buyers weren’t buying them. Someone maybe ought to ask why. Maybe it’s because so many of them are so boring. So, of course, are […]

A lot has changed recently and not just because of Corona. The market for half-ton trucks is changing, too. And just as dramatically. For the first time in decades, the number-one best-seller, Ford’s F-150, is threatened by the truck that for decades had been the third-best-seller, the Ram 1500. The 1500 had already supplanted the […]

When you can’t get a manual transmission in a small sporty car anymore, you know it’s close to The End for manual transmissions. And possibly sporty small cars, too. Like the BMW Mini Cooper, which is the smallest sporty new car you can buy and which you can no longer buy with a manual transmission […]