The best-kept secret about new cars is how little you have to spend to get a luxurious car. The car industry doesn’t want you to know this, of course — so it has shifted the definition of luxury in order to get you to spend luxury car money. The definition of luxurious used to mean […]
Not a Four Wheeled Indenture
The more I work on the ’72 Beetle — aka Sexual Chocolate, the car I am helping my teenage protégé learn to work on — the more I realize why most teenagers have lost interest in cars. It’s the money, mostly. The Beetle is not just easy to work on, it is very cheap to […]
Chocolate Rain – The Joy of Fixing Old Car Engines
Old cars are full of surprises. When I pulled out the rear seat of the ’64 Chevy Corvair project car I bought in the mid ’90s, I found a mini-bar from the ’70s — complete with cheesy disco-era decanters and shot glasses. The bar was made of wood — which had been cut to fit […]
Automated = Slow
How fast will automated cars go? Will it take you longer — or less — to get where you want to go? The answer to those questions can be discovered by taking a ride on a city bus or any other government-run public conveyance. They all operate at Least Common Denominator Speed — which will […]
2018 BMW K 1600 B Motorcycle Review
The NMA Foundation presents Eric Peter’s Car Review, a weekly Saturday feature on the NMA blog. * * * Motorcycles aren’t subject to Uncle’s fuel-efficiency fatwas. Not yet. Which explains why BMW is putting its sixes in its bikes . . . while removing them from its cars. Including even mid-sized cars like the 5 Series […]
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