A few years ago, a group of friends held a fishing tournament to honor a beloved cohort. Tony Montana was an exemplary North Carolinian, a Tar Heel so blue that he joked that his son Richard was named to have the initials “RAM.” Lung cancer caught him too early in life, but out of his […]
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Watch This Video. Using Your Phone While Driving Can Be Fatal
It’s heartbreaking. You can see the other car coming before the teenager can. You can’t warn them. You can’t save them. And neither could the researchers who had to watch these troublesome last seconds before impact. Watch this video. Share it with your kids. And your friends. Don’t forget to tell yourself that you need […]
Diesel Volkswagens Toast Old Wives Tales
Today’s adventure in “how to keep a straight face” comes to you courtesy of Volkswagen, diesel, and a couple of older ladies who have reached the point in their lives where they don’t appear to care about things like decorum or restraint. Why pick older ladies? Because diesel has come a long way since they […]
Horsepower vs. Torque: What’s the Brass Tacks Difference?
First of all, we’re not going to do any math. Or science. No math or science. This is a numbers-free space. We’re just not going to do it, and you can’t make us. We will apply a Seinfeldian linguistic analysis, however (don’t worry, it will only take a moment). Ahem: What is the deal with […]
New Video Shows Cross Coupe GTE, Future of VW SUVs
We last wrote about the Cross Coupe GTE concept last week when VW introduced it at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The Cross Coupe GTE is a mid-size SUV concept that hints at changes coming to the Tiguan and possibly a new crossover SUV one size below the Tiguan. It’s important because […]