The joke goes: How do you double the value of a Yugo? Fill up the gas tank! True enough. And yet, nearly 800,000 of them were made and did you know that they were manufactured all the way through 2008? The Yugo was last sold in the US back in 1992, but it continued to […]
Taking the Time to Make a Luxury Car
The most exclusive and most expensive watches aren’t digital. They are meticulously hand-assembled mechanical things, with intricate wheels and mechanisms–the workings usually partially visible, so you can see and admire the workings and the workmanship. People pay huge money for them–in some cases, more than $50,000–even though they don’t keep time any better than a $5 Dollar […]
The Old Car Experience
If you’ve never driven an old car as opposed to a used car, you have probably never experienced certain things that were once part of the experience of driving a car. Like turning on the AC—assuming the car had AC. Many did not before AC became a given thing in the ’90s. You could feel the engine stagger under the load. It was […]
The Teenaged Car
Cars aren’t just in short supply; they are getting older all the time. IHS Markit, which keeps track of such things, reported that the average age of a currently in-service car is 12.1 years. Almost a teenager! This trend has been ongoing for some time and has nothing to do with the COVID-19 crisis and the […]
The 2021 Ram TRX vs. the ’76 Trans-Am
The ’21 Ram TRX I test-drove recently has more than three times as much horsepower (702) as the 455 V8 in my ’76 Trans-Am made when it was new (200). It also weighs nearly twice as much, 6,396 pounds vs. about 3,800 pounds, and still runs the quarter-mile three full seconds faster than my Trans Am did […]
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