Having owned an Opel in my youth, I can easily tell you that this car is NOT a great daily driver. Opels are prone to all kinds of mechanical and electrical problems. However, it is a beautiful little car and certainly should hold some collectible value. It’ll certainly turn heads at a local cars & coffee meetup. If…

Last year my trusty old 2005 Civic finally hit the point of no return. Exhaust gasses were leaking into the coolant, causing the car to overheat on any drive over 20 miles. A local Honda/Acura engine repair shop owner told me over the phone that although he could definitely fix it, the cost of repair would be far in…

Don’t own a Tesla and probably never will due to the cost. However, even if I had the money, I doubt I would buy one. It’s not that I don’t think electric cars are the future, since they most definitely are. It’s that I absolutely love to drive. I got my license to drive over 40 years ago and I’ve never lost my love…

I agree, this man does not deserve a century in prison, but as a truck driver, he royally screwed up. However the real villains of this crime, are the trucking company that employed him and the driving school he trained at. Sadly, those are often both one and the same. Allow me to explain.

“If you tape a show Friday night, it means you still have a show.” Did anyone tell the writers of this Amazon movie that TV shows of the early 50's were not recorded on videotape? TV shows of that era were aired live and were only occasionally ‘recorded’ via an archaic system known as Kinescope. Essentially it was a…

In high school, back in the late 70's, I drove a 74 Nova SS. Back then, the Nova’s 350 V8 power was completely sapped by the heavy handed emissions controls, making it an anemic gas guzzler. While seeing this old Malaise era car brings back memories, I kinda agree the market for something like this is kinda marginal.…

I think a big part of that box office was from the hand full of drive-in movies that still operate in this country. Drive-in theaters have experienced a major resurgence since the start of the pandemic, but have been starved for fresh movies to exhibit. I watched TENET last weekend, from the safe confines of my car,…

My 2005 Civic EX runs just fine. Someday if I have the money, I might get something newer, like a 2014-15 model.

I went to JCPenney headquarters last year for an interview for a photo-retouching position. The place was massive and palatial, and in massive denial that the American shopping mall culture and department store industry in general was already dead and never coming back.

I have a 15 year old Honda Civic EX coupe with over 200K miles that I could give equal praise to. It’s so plain by today’s standards that it’s practically invisible to thieves or police for that matter. It’s also invisible in parking lots and traffic, but that’s another matter. It’s as reliable as a sunrise, and…

1917 a hollow exorcise? Hardly. While I agree that the whole one-long-take thing can be a little contrived, in this case it’s in service of a simple quest-against-time survival story. While similar in premise to 1999's Saving Private Ryan (another war film that subverted the standard genre with it’s hellish depiction…

Overall I liked the series a lot, although the reveal took so long that the season finale almost felt rushed. However in the end you realize that this was Dr. Manhattan’s story all along and its a love story at that.

This movie is far too self pretentious too realize how silly it is, much like Battlefield Earth. And like Battlefield Earth, I found myself laughing out loud through most it. Perhaps because it’s is very loosely based on the Joseph Conrad novel, Heart of Darkness, the writers want us to believe they’ve crafted a…

I saw the movie last night and you’ll be glad to know, you’re not alone in your assessment. I winced through half the movie.

It’s as if Dr. Suess and the designers of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile decided to join forces and create a luxury sedan.

A previously owned Audi A4 would easily fit in with the private jet crowd, and could easily be found for under 30K. European luxury for the cost of a new VW.

I honestly keep waiting for Trump to bring back leaded gasoline. Seriously.

Oldsmobile dramatically redesigned and scaled down the Cutlass for the 1978 model, just in time for the 1979 gas crisis. It went through another refreshing in 1981 with flush plastic bumpers that matched the body color. It remained hugely popular through the mid 80's. It was Avis Car Rental’s most popular car back in…

New cars are becoming far too expensive, often overloaded with extra electronic features that become burdensome to update and repair down the line. Simpler is almost always better when it comes to used cars, especially when they were well engineered to begin with. My 2005 Civic EX gets me by just fine, despite being a…

That isn’t how car insurance works. She might be completely at fault, but there are limits to the damages her insurance company is liable for. The rest will be paid by his own coverage. She is not responsible for the fact he chose to drive a million dollar car on busy NY streets.