National Motorists Association Blog

The NMA Foundation presents Eric Peter’s Car Review, a weekly Saturday feature on the NMA blog.  *  *  * The ’17 VW GTI may not look much like a Corvette, but in several ways, it reminds me of one. Well, not a new one. My high school buddy’s 1978 L-82 coupe. Wait. Give me a minute. […]

The NMA Foundation presents Eric Peter’s Car Review, a weekly Saturday feature on the NMA blog.  *  *  * You make the rules, we’ll find new ways around them. That could be AMG’s motto and maybe is . . . unofficially. The Rhinoceros Thing you see before you is somehow fully compliant with every government reg; […]

The NMA Foundation presents Eric Peter’s Car Review, a weekly Saturday feature on the NMA blog.  *  *  * The latest Mini is bigger — and slightly smaller engined. Usually, that’s a recipe for slower — and drinks more gas. Would you believe (best Maxwell Smart voice) this one also goes faster — and uses less […]

The NMA Foundation presents Eric Peter’s Car Review, a weekly Saturday feature on the NMA blog.  *  *  * If you miss reasonable-sized trucks — what 1500 series trucks used to be before Codpiece Fever overtook the country — you might want to have a look at a “mid-sized” truck like the 2017 Tacoma. Would you […]

The NMA Foundation presents Eric Peter’s Car Review, a weekly Saturday feature on the NMA blog.  *  *  * Size no longer matters. Well, size can be deceiving. Sometimes, a smaller-on-the-outside vehicle has more room inside than a larger-on-the-outside vehicle. The BMW X1, for instance. It is BMW’s smallest crossover SUV but it has about the […]