We will one day look back fondly on the days just before Corona Fever hit as a golden era of vehicle design. Or at least, a golden age of horsepower. New cars come with a lot of it. Four-cylinder engines in family cars routinely produce more of it than most V8s in muscle cars did as […]
A Car Story
Today is a good time for a car story to take our minds off the other story. This story relates to a recent post called An Update for an Old Car, in which I detailed upgrading the out-of-date factory-installed CD-playing (but no Bluetooth-playing) stereo in my ’02 Nissan Frontier with a newer system. Well, I just attempted […]
The Corona Special
There actually is a Corona—not the virus, the car. Toyota sold it as recently as 2001, in Japan and before Corona acquired other connotations. It was slightly larger and nicer than the more well-known Corolla, which Toyota still sells everywhere. You have probably seen third-gen Coronas (1964-1970) in ’60s Godzilla movies. Well, models of Coronas being stomped on by a […]
The Anti-Corona
It’s hard to sustain a state of panic, a sense of imminent doom, when the sun is shining, the breeze is warm — and you’re getting your classic car ready for spring. This necessary therapy is indeed, an annual ritual. Like the first green shoots and buds on the trees, it marks the end of […]
The Fun of Driving Slow, Fast
There is much to be said about driving a slow car, fast—even a slow-by-today’s-standards car. I have more fun in the Orange Barchetta, my 1976 Trans-Am, than I have in the new performance cars I get to test drive, many of which have twice or even three times the performance capability. The reason—their capability is […]
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