Acura has what you might call a Lincoln Problem.
Just as Ford is trying to jump-start its dead-in-the-water lux division (Ford sells more Mustangs in a year than Lincoln sells cars) Acura is trying to become more than a purveyor of really nice ...
Some people are mad at GM (and Chrysler) over the bailout bucks. I'm not happy about that, either. But lately, I'm mad at Ford - which bequeathed unto us the idiot idea of pick-up truck bed walls so high you need a ladder to access what's in the ...
Back in the late '70s, engineers over at Chrysler came up with a way to help their existing engines - which had been designed back in the 1950s and '60s - stay compliant with emissions control requirements passed years later. It was called Lean ...
Minivans - traditional minivans - are becoming scarce. GM and Ford don't even make them anymore. That leaves Chrysler (Town & County - and its lower-rent Dodge sibling, the Caravan - which is also re-sold by VW as the Routan), the Honda Odyssey, ...
In a few years, six-speed transmissions will probably seem as dated as Powerglides or threes-on-the-tree do today. Several current model-year cars already have seven and even eight-speed transmissions (Porsche 911, Chrysler 300, BMW 5 Series, etc....
Not "buckling up for safety" can get you killed all right. By a cop.
That's what happened to Deland, Florida resident Marlon Brown about a week ago. Brown was killed - run over - by Deland Police Officer James Harris, who pursued him with his ...
