National Motorists Association Blog

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Here’s an example of the importance of cross-shopping: The 2012 Infiniti G37 coupe — rear-wheel-drive, standard 330 hp V-6, seven-speed transmission and 0-60 in 5.6 seconds — starts at $37,800. For about the same money you could buy a Mercedes C250 ($37,220) and take home four cylinders, 201 hp and […]

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist The car of the future — or the future of the car — is here a few years ahead of schedule. In the form of the 2012 Scion iQ.

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Jaguar is going BMW. And both are going four — under duress from Uncle. BMW has already brought out a new turbocharged four-cylinder engine as the standard powerplant in both the 3 Series and the 5 Series — which formerly came standard with sixes.

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Cars are by most objective measures better appliances than they’ve ever been. But as reliable as they are, as durable as they are, as safe as they are — many are devoid of, well, soul. As the little ditty from the first season of HBO’s Weeds had it: . . […]