Posts by Chris Haak
Product Review: Drop Stop
They say that you often don't know what you had until it's gone. Such is the case with Drop Stop, a simple device that we were asked to...
Could the UAW’s “Southern Strategy”...
Bob King, the current president of the large-but-shrinking United Auto Workers (UAW) union, has said repeatedly that his union needs to...
Ford Shows How Expensive It Is To Close a Plant In Europe
Popular wisdom in the car business is that it's impossible to close underutilized assembly plants in Europe. Dozens of plants were closed...
Product Review: Passport 8500 X50 Radar/Laser Detector With...
You may not believe this about a guy who runs a website about cars, but I have been pulled over from time to time for exceeding the posted...
Japan Wants To Join TPP Free-Trade Talks, Some Don’t...
As expected, Japan's new prime minister Shinzo Abe announced today that his country will be joining the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership...
Renault Pledges To Boost France Output
French automaker Renault has come up with an interesting way of dealing with its overcapacity in Europe. It will boost output and produce...
Don’t Rear-End a Tractor Trailer, Or You Will Die
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the insurance industry-funded research organization (which, due to its nature, has an obvious...
Volkswagen Plans Ten New Plants By 2018
Volkswagen plans to be the world's largest automaker - a title that has been surprisingly in flux for the past several years, after three...
Pope Francis I Inherits Benedict XVI’s Popemobile
As most of the world now knows, the 115 cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church elected a new pope yesterday, who took the name of Francis I...