I don’t even see millennials being interested in an electric cruiser motorcycle...or any cruiser, really. An electric scooter would likely be more appealing to millennials as a whole. Millennials who want gasoline-powered bikes (the ones that I’ve known, anyway) gravitate toward sport bikes. Cruisers tend to appeal to…

If I lived in Europe, I’d drink copious amounts of German beer. However, I’m not sure if my beloved bourbon-barrel stouts could be brewed in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot.

This was the first time I’d heard of Alta motorcycles, so some research was in order. For the price of an Alta Redshift EX, one could buy a Honda XR650L...and almost have enough money for a second XR650L. The Alta bikes would seem to mostly appeal to techno-dweebs, and techno-dweebs who want two-wheeled transport…

Finding a much bigger piece of land, and then building a decent house on it, would cost far less. And the bigger lot would allow me to build a big garage and/or my own ORV park. Paying that kind of money for a house that’s larger than anyone needs it to be is an exercise in gratuitous and wasteful.

Those Fridolins (a nickname for the VW Type 147) are so cool.

A 300-amp fuse for a battery pack? And “Jim limited the output of his electrical system to 1,200 amps and 400 volts out of safety concerns?” That just gives me one more reason to distrust electric vehicles. The main breaker for my house is a 100-amp, for fuck’s sake!

I’d take the Jeep...right into a paint shop so it could be coated in a proper, sedate green.

I vote for a heavy-duty tailboard on logging trailers. Perhaps somebody will come up with a design that allows for some adjustability if hauling slightly longer logs, but is strong enough to halt a log hell-bent on jumping ship. I’ve also thought for a while that flat-bedders should strap their cargo longitudinally as…

Rust and insurance companies are pretty much the only things that can kill an old-school Toyota pickup. Being that this one is rust-free and rare, if there are no major mechanical issues, I’d call it well-bought!

I used to have a 1995 Dakota. The 1987-1996 Dakotas are decent trucks, provided you avoid slushboxes and the gutless 4-cylinder.

Regarding freeways, you are absolutely correct. I-15 through most of Arizona, though, is a notable exception. Highways are a quite different matter. Some of the rural highways in California (43 and 152 spring readily to mind) are packed full of semi-trucks, farm equipment, and drivers who never go any faster than five…

Would I buy a new truck over a lightly used truck? Hell, no. I like my trucks to have a regular cab and a manual transmission. The only new truck I can get so equipped is a Ram...and to get the manual, I’d have to spend about $8,000 on the Diesel. Even lightly used trucks equipped the way I like are hard to find. I’d…

In a word: no. I have never had a long item fly out of the bed of a pickup truck. That is because I know how to use a ratchet strap and tie a secure knot. Some jurisdictions (California being one) also require a conspicuous warning flag to be attached to any item that extends a specified distance beyond the rearmost…

This six-way tailgate strikes me as unnecessarily complicated, especially since it lacks a manual handle. Has the average American really become so lazy that lifting the handle, guiding thetailgate down by hand, and then shutting it by hand is an insufferable burden?

He has updated the ad, implying that the car is on eBay with no reserve. It will doubtless bring less than his Crack Pipe asking price.

The 2019 Sierra’s front end reminds me of a pouty vampire. Worse yet, its base price will probably be close to $30,000. No, thank you! I’d rather spend a tenth of that price on a 1988-1998 GMC.

A few thoughts:

I’ve never bought into any sort of investment, other than a savings account, precisely because they’re not guaranteed to give me a positive return. And, if the bit about not letting a prospective buyer purchase a special-model Ferrari unless that buyer is a “loyal customer” is true, that’s a questionable business…

I certainly wouldn’t pay $175,000 for a new Dodge. For me to want to pay that kind of money for a Dodge, it would have to be real 1971 Hemi/4-speed Super Bee (total of nine built), or some other real and equally rare vintage muscle car. Dodge can make as many new Demons as they want, but they’ll never be building…

The notion of buying a Ferrari as an investment doesn’t make much sense to me. There are maintenance and insurance costs associated with it. It almost certainly loses a substantial chunk of its worth the second the ink on the sales contract is dry. And there’s absolutely no guarantee that a seller would be able to…