Bill Ford Says Car Networks Are Coming

Posted on Aug 26, 2017 in Safety | 2 comments

At a speech before the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Ford Motor Co.’s Executive Chairman Bill Ford (Henry’s great-grandson) made some notable remarks about how the future will need to accommodate 4 billion cars on the road by mid-century. (We already have about a billion.) While people around the world keep buying cars at a rapid pace, traffic jams are...

Personal Luxury Cars: The Cadillac Eldorado

Posted on Aug 12, 2017 in Antique | Comments Off on Personal Luxury Cars: The Cadillac Eldorado

For almost 50 years, the Cadillac Eldorado was the epitome of the personal luxury car. Originally built as a show car to mark the anniversary of Cadillac, the Eldorado morphed first into the ultimate Cadillac model, then into a caricature of the 1970’s, and finally into a soulless car that reminded us more of what we lost, than it did of personal luxury. In...

Hot Wheels presents a Darth Vader car

Posted on Aug 11, 2017 in Concept | Comments Off on Hot Wheels presents a Darth Vader car

As you well know, Hot Wheels mainly deals in toy cars, so when you hear they are presenting a Darth Vader car, nothing seems out of the ordinary, right? Wrong. It seems that this car is actually a full sized, fully functional vehicle, and it looks as bad as you might expect. Hot Wheels Darth Vader car The project was taken on by Hot Wheels in collaboration with...

GM’s Cobblepot: The Chevy Vega

Posted on Aug 10, 2017 in Technology | 2 comments

In the popular TV series, Gotham (it’s a prequel to the Batman story) there’s an episode called “Everyone Has His Cobblepot” — a reference to something embarrassing in one’s past. The Chevy Vega is GM’s Cobblepot. Like most failures, it wasn’t intentional. But it was — in retrospect predictable. Chiefly because then-GM President Ed Cole rushed the car’s...

Here Are the ‘Winners’ of the ‘TEXAS EDITION’ Badges

Posted on Aug 8, 2017 in Editorials | 2 comments

Last week I offered you, the man or woman in the street, a chance to own a “TEXAS EDITION” badge at my expense. I asked you to tell me what you’d do with such a badge. After an exhaustive selection process consisting of me having a couple shots of Ketel One Citroen and picking shit at random, I’ve come up with the “winners.” I’ll be contacting each one of you...