National Motorists Association Blog

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Is bland bad? How many gallons of vanilla ice cream get sold in a given year? How many Toyota Camrys? For the past 12 years, it’s been the best-selling mid-size/family car in America.

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Back in the Pleistocene — you know, before the ’90s — a “quick” Beetle (the original air-cooled model designed by Dr. Porsche) was a 12 second car. Not in the quarter mile. Zero to 60.

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Who says badge engineering can’t work? GM (and Ford, too) got heckled for years . . . for doing it wrong. For taking, say, a Chevy Cavalier, adding some chrome here, a wreath and crest there — and calling the unholy result a Cadillac Cimarron. The problem, of course, was […]

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist It is getting hard to find a real SUV — especially one that’s not too damn big. In the mid-sized segment, there are oodles of FWD car-based crossovers. But how about one that’s based on a RWD, truck-style layout? With a standard V-6 (and optional V-8) engine mounted front to […]