The bad news just keeps on coming for Nissan. Their sales numbers for July 2019 were abysmal. Titan trucks could never compete with the Detroit Three. Toyota’s Tundra hasn’t been able to break that Ford-Ram-GM stranglehold on light and heavy-duty trucks and the Tundra has been around for over 20 years (if you include…

Let’s put this problem into perspective from a bigger picture. The Artic Ice and the Greenland Glaciers continue to melt. Some months back, a chunk of ice the size of Rhode Island broke of the Western Antartic Ice Shelf. Over 200 years of human industrial activity has spewed way too many greenhouse gases into our…

Look to VW to either buy or license the MEB platform. I would then begin to design an entirely new line of performance BMW vehicles given the instant torque and flexibility provided by an all-electric power train. Not to mention all the electronic gizmos one can throw into the car including self-driving automation…

In our family stable we have 4 vehicles. Only 1 vehicle was bought new and my wife and I regret having bought that, but it’s the first “new” vehicle my wife has ever owned. She deserves it even though I hate the payments. The other 3 were purchases as 2, 4 and 10 year old vehicles. The last, 10 year old, is more of a…

Wrong on all counts. Electric motors are more powerful, more efficient and much more reliable. They provide instant torque and unmatched acceleration. They have very few moving parts. The convert energy into motive power far more efficiently than an ICE. They require much less maintenance - no oil change, coolant,…

A couple of years back, I watched a documentary called “The Revenge of the Electric Car”. Since the mid-60s when I first saw the promise of electric vehicles I have been patiently waiting for a quieter, smoother and more efficient mode of transportation then something that uses tiny explosions to turn a crankshaft…

I’ve lived in Florida for 23.5 years. In that time I’ve owned 4 properties and sold 3. I bought my tiny “retirement” bungalow 2 years ago in SW Florida. I still work, but when I decide to quit working it’ll be there. In retirement I can tend to my plants and trees and split some time at the local pubs yapping with the…

It is most unfortunate that in this day and age, people post racist, bigoted and hateful messages and images, but still don’t understand the hurt they cause when performing such actions. In what universe is a dressed up chimpanzee in a top-hat not a racist slap-in-the-face of the young, royal couple and their day to…

I really believe that UCF should be paired with a Power 5 team in the playoffs. Let’s find out if they really are that good or as their strength of schedule suggests a Cinderella team. How about we pair them up with Alabama? With the audacity to proclaim themselves national champions, let’s let the tire meet the…

Very cool. I never knew about Ranger, although I remember Opel and Vauxhalls when living overseas as a child.

Very nice. I have 3 VWs including the Tiguan. This truck is a little underpowered with the 1.4 liter engine, but might do better with the 2.0 TDI, which met a grissly end in the US due to dieselgate - I know, we had a Jetta SportWagon with the 2.0 TDI and we gave it back. My Tiguan has the 2.0 Turbo gas, which is…

Very cool. I can’t wait to get my VW Microbus EV in 2022. Currently we are a 3 VW owning family: 2012 Golf, 2014 Tiguan and 2008 EOS. The EV Microbus will be the capstone vehicle as I enter retirement. I’ll be doing all my smoking in the backyard and not in the backseat. Peace.

Oh, pooh. It would have more fun if they really were DiGiorno pizzas instead of Little Caesars. I consider their own pizzas of extremely mediocre quality. 

It’s interesting, because I made a 900 mile trip from Florida to Maryland for my 40th class reunion 3 years ago. It was a straight shot up I-95 and every rest stop had EV charging stations. Furthermore, I am noticing them in public parking lots in the cities here in Florida. 

So, every 2 weeks I travel from East-Central Florida to my retirement/weekend home in South-West Florida. It’s around 200 miles and 3.5 hours non-stop on any given Friday evening. I would love to have a EV that could make that trip with just a little extra to spare. Once there I could plug it into the charger for the…

So, I watched the first Dolphins game in which they really looked good. I watched part of the Dolphins game against NE in which they got decimated. However, I was also watching another Florida pro-football team get decimated. Tampa Bay was annihilated by Chicago and Fitzmagic came to an end. This has been a weird…

So, I used to read Thor and the Avengers back in the 1960s. It was always Mjolnir. I stopped following Marvel Superheroes some time in the 1970s and I did not come back until the movies in the early 2000s. At what time, our time, did Mjolnir get replaced by Stormbreaker? Thanks.

It wasn’t alive any more.

Definitely a burden. As I have turned 60 this year, I can remember back fondly to my childhood, adolescence and early adulthood years. I recall mostly pleasant memories although I am sure there are plenty of not-so-pleasant things that occurred in the past. However, it is our ability of forget and the power of our…

Autobots, transform!