This GM bailout thing is outta hand

I wasn’t completely against forking over tax dollars in order to float GM a loan, but now they expect new car buyers to build their own engines… and fork over almost $6,000 for the privilege?
I always thought people bought new cars to avoid building their own engines?
As it turns out, this program is strictly voluntary […]

Has the Big Noise been silenced?

We don’t often do this, but when a legitimately historic vehicle goes missing, we often try and find it.  Here’s an example. When I was writing “Miller’s Time,” the book that tells the life story of longtime Roger Penske confidant Don Miller, he mentioned that he’d like to find the race car depicted in this […]

Ad of the Week: Were They Kidding?

When Pontiac started using the phrase “We build excitement,” I highly suspect that it was never intended to be used in conjunction with this pair from 1980.
Read it carefully (below): That 41 percent increase in mileage was the “highway” increase, and it was based on available powertrains (with an asterisk) versus the 1979 model. That […]