Genesis and Ferrari, Design in 7 Days

Posted on Oct 26, 2022 in Antique | Comments Off on Genesis and Ferrari, Design in 7 Days

According to the bible, it took God just seven days to create the world as we know it. Unfortunately, God doesn’t design cars, because the average time to develop a new car can be as long as four years. With computers and high tech design systems, the time can be shortened, but the process is still massive, costing an automaker billions of dollars. Even a...

First Look: Escort Max 360 Laser & Radar Detector

Posted on Oct 22, 2022 in Technology | 1 comment

While you are on the road, there are many ways police can catch you for speeding violations. Some of them include radar and laser guns, red light cameras, air patrol, and photo radars, commonly known as speed cameras. According to the National Motorist Association, an estimated 1/3 of all speed enforcement citations are erroneous. Erroneous traffic tickets can...

Toyota Prius: Most Stolen Car in America?

Posted on Oct 19, 2022 in Safety | 2 comments

Imagine the movie “Gone in 60 Seconds” with a Prius in place of the Shelby GT500. Not very exciting, is it? Car theft has been romanticized in movies and video games, but the reality is far less exciting. Cars are stolen every day in this country, and it happens in plain site at grocery stores, in home driveways, and in mass-transit parking lots. Instead of...

The Start/Stop Button: A Silent Killer?

Posted on Oct 17, 2022 in Safety | 3 comments

A huge lawsuit against ten of the world’s largest automakers was quietly filed last summer. The suit claims at least 13 people have died due to a major safety defect in automobiles made by BMW/MINI, Mercedes-Benz, FIAT/Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda/Acura, Hyundai/Kia, Nissan/Infiniti, Toyota/Lexus, and Volkswagen/Bentley. The issue has nothing to do...

Autonomous Vehicles, Malicious Drivers

Posted on Oct 5, 2022 in Editorials | 1 comment

You’ve probably heard the news: An autonomous Google-Lexus brushed a city bus at about 2 miles-per-hour. There’s been plenty of discussion on the incident, some of it oddly hysterical, but most of it has centered on the idea of the future capabilities of autonomous traffic to operate in traffic as it exists today. In other words, from everything I’ve read, the...

Does this weathervane look familiar?

Posted on Oct 1, 2022 in Featured | 2 comments

If you began reading Hemmings in the 1950s or ’60s, there’s no doubt you’d recognize what car this interesting piece of sculpture represents. But as the hobby has shifted from the Ford Model T and Model A and what the AACA terms “Full Classics” into ’50s cruisers and muscle machines, some of the early history has become a bit obscure even to the most dedicated...