GM is Not Made up of All Old White Men, Afterall.

After GM and Chrysler filed for bankruptcy last year, it was hard for a car geek like myself to give them much respect.  Visions of executive boardrooms with bloated, out-of-touch white men running the show,  filled my head. Late model American cars like the Sebring and Impala epitomize the worst thinking in automotive design today. And don’t even get me started on the PT Cruiser…… I figured the Volt was the one product at either... Read More

Traffic of the Future

Traffic of the Future, originally uploaded by veloopity. Another vintage futurist painting. This one is German. The cars are so sexy with fins…and the monorail jetting by in the background.  Read More

Test Drive

It was the kind of accosting that makes the hair on the back of your neck rise, and the uneasy tension able to sneak in.  Almost a drubbing, as if we had done a misdeed, and truly overstepped our bounds.  All of this, over a visit to test drive a Honda Accord. Trevor and I are real car geeks. Not motorheads or spark-plug-wingnuts, but enthusiasts on a practicality, design, and industry level.  We both subscribe to car magazines, inquisitively... Read More