AAA recently projected that an unprecedented 72.2 million Americans would travel within the country during the Independence Day holiday weekend. Of that total, 61.6 million were expected to travel by car at least 50 miles […]
When I moved to Ohio many years ago to enter a doctoral program, I camped out for a few days until I found a place to rent. When I mentioned that to a fellow student […]
Do you ever wonder why American automotive history can have such a dumbed-down quality? I would argue that a big reason why is that the subject has never gained much traction in the scholarly realm. […]
American car-buff media tend to talk down to their readers to the point where I sometimes wonder whether editors — or at least their overseers on the business side — think we’re just a bunch […]
(UPDATED FROM 8/22/2023) This BMW reminded me of how rarely automobiles in the United States display customized paint schemes (or vinyl wraps). Note that I am talking about mass-market vehicles rather than custom jobs for […]
I would imagine that a goodly number of people who drive over the Mores Creek bridge in southwest Idaho are anticipating a happy time at the nearby Lucky Peak State Park. However, when trying to […]
Our pictured truck may be unusually beefy, but jacked-up big pickups are quite common in rural parts of Washington state. As I was taking pictures of this recent-model Ram, I wondered: How would someone from […]
Daniel Knowles, the midwest correspondent for The Economist, grew up in the United Kingdom and as a reporter has traveled extensively around the world. So when he recently wrote a book about the automobile, he […]
(UPDATED FROM 11/13/2020) It makes sense that parents — both of kids and pets — would stick with PG-rated bumper stickers. But why are they so dorky? The obsessiveness of pet parents is amply displayed in […]
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