Automobiles

  • Car Movies – Two Lane Blacktop

    The end of the year is full of holidays and consequently provides time to sit in from of a TV and watch a DVD.  Earlier this year I put together a list of “car movies” and gave Two Lane Blacktop… Continue reading

  • Emerging Markets – Its not just about the USA

    Today the global automobile market is about 65 million vehicles and by 2010 it is predicted to rise to 73 million.  This growth will be principally in four countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China.  All the car companies will be… Continue reading

  • Coming – Wedge Brakes

    Hydraulic brakes were a huge improvement over the mechanical brakes originally used in motor cars.  Disk brakes replaced drum brakes and braking capacity was further improved.  In the last thirty years ABS has gone from an option on exotic cars… Continue reading

  • The Salt Flats

    A few years back I picked up a Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX.  I spent a half a dozen years working to improve what was a fantastically fun car to the point that I had to bring it to a real road… Continue reading

  • Tools

    Key to maintaining the health and vitality of your car is being sure that you have useful and appropriate tools at hand. It is also important for your own safety and well being to make sure that you invest wisely in… Continue reading

  • Autumn and Your Car

    You’ve turned back your clock, changed out the batteries in your smoke alarms, what should you be doing with your car? How about checking the tires?  Taking a look at the tire pressures and making sure that they are what… Continue reading

  • What Makes a Road Great

    For some people it is a freshly paved stretch of asphalt that is straight as an arrow and flat as a pancake.  They look forward to the speed they can attain without the bother of slowing down for curves or fighting gravity’s… Continue reading

  • Garages Then and Now

    Long before the automobile there were garage-like structures known as barns.  Instead of service stations there were blacksmith shops.  The transportation choices were horses, carriages, and your feet. It was important to protect and maintain your transportation and for some… Continue reading

  • Stealth

    Spirited driving, speeding, scofflaw, or just “Sorry officer, I had no idea”.  How ever you want to describe it there are speed limits and there are drivers that exceed those limits.  Depending upon what road or highway you look at,… Continue reading

  • Diesel – Bonneville Record Holder

    We saw it LeMans this year and now the Bonneville salt flats.  A British experimental car using two JCB444 engines that normally would put out 150 hp apiece, were modified to produce 750 hp each.  The result was a world land speed… Continue reading