National Motorists Association Blog

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist 2014 is the final year for the “Luca Brasi” version of the Chrysler 300 sedan. Next year — this fall, actually — Chrysler will debut a redesigned 300 that will be (if spy photos are accurate) curvy and slinky rather than barrel chested and beefy. It looks like the RWD-based […]

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist The first mass-production car — Ford’s Model T — had many virtues, but variety wasn’t one of them. Not even when it came to color (Henry Ford allegedly decreed buyers could have any color they liked, so long as it was black). Henry Sr. got away with that for awhile, […]

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Some small cars are bigger than others. Sexier and roomier — and quicker — too. One of them also gets better gas mileage than its rivals. Which small car, specifically?

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist You may have heard this story: Back in the mid ’60s, that wild and crazy guy John Z. DeLorean — father of the GTO — almost fathered a Pontiac rival to Chevy’s Corvette. It was a slick two-seater called Banshee (internally, XP-833) that got disappeared as soon as GM upper […]

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist The name’s awful. Let’s get that out of the way first. It’s hard to pronounce — it’s hard to spell. A neologistic concatenation of “Tiger” and “Iguana.” Yes, seriously.