The most exclusive and most expensive watches aren’t digital. They are meticulously hand-assembled mechanical things, with intricate wheels and mechanisms–the workings usually partially visible, so you can see and admire the workings and the workmanship. People pay huge money for them–in some cases, more than $50,000–even though they don’t keep time any better than a $5 Dollar […]
The Old Car Experience
If you’ve never driven an old car as opposed to a used car, you have probably never experienced certain things that were once part of the experience of driving a car. Like turning on the AC—assuming the car had AC. Many did not before AC became a given thing in the ’90s. You could feel the engine stagger under the load. It was […]
The Teenaged Car
Cars aren’t just in short supply; they are getting older all the time. IHS Markit, which keeps track of such things, reported that the average age of a currently in-service car is 12.1 years. Almost a teenager! This trend has been ongoing for some time and has nothing to do with the COVID-19 crisis and the […]
The 2021 Ram TRX vs. the ’76 Trans-Am
The ’21 Ram TRX I test-drove recently has more than three times as much horsepower (702) as the 455 V8 in my ’76 Trans-Am made when it was new (200). It also weighs nearly twice as much, 6,396 pounds vs. about 3,800 pounds, and still runs the quarter-mile three full seconds faster than my Trans Am did […]
The Cars We Could Have Bought
The cars you’re allowed to buy today are the cars that the government allows to be manufactured. But what kinds of cars might we be able to buy if the government got out of the car business and left the designing of cars to the automakers and the buying of cars to customers? What if we could […]
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