Toyota
Are Gadgets Ruining Cars?
Gadget blog Gizmodo had a post yesterday entitled, "The Gadgetization of Cars is Kind of Ruining Them." As a lover of both cars and gadgets, as well as cars with gadgets, I took...
Review: 2011 Chevrolet Suburban LTZ 4×4
By Chris Haak I was in Boy Scouts when I was a kid. We had our meetings each Tuesday night at a local gun club, since they were my troop's sponsoring organization. Aside from...
Do Ford’s High Fleet Sales Make the Tundra Look Bad?
Last Friday, I received a note on our article that asked "What happened to the Tundra?" from Jason Lancaster, administrator of TundraHeadquarters.com that prompted me to take a...
What Happened to the Tundra?
By Chris Haak Way back in the 2007 model year, you may recall that things looked quite different in the auto industry. Neither GM nor Chrysler had declared bankruptcy; GM was...
GM Could Regain “World’s Largest Automaker” Title in 2011
By Chris Haak It's not easy being number one. And, if you listened to GM executives after their company lost the global sales crown in 2008, being the biggest doesn't matter,...
Why Insurgents Love The Toyota Hilux
On the occasion of the death of Osama bin Laden, we thought we'd revisit the relationship between Toyota's Hilux pickup and varoius insurgencies around the world. We originally...
Not All New Cars are Better Than Their Old Models
By Chris Haak A typical pattern in the life cycle of products in a competitive market is that a new product will be introduced, and it will be incrementally better than the one...
Feds Find No Defects in Toyota’s Electronic Throttles
By Chris Haak So, it was about the floormats and pedals after all. More than a year after Toyota's reputation for quality and safety was damaged by a tsunami of recalls (18...
Review: 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid
The Lincoln MKZ is, of course, a Ford Fusion in drag. But just as the Fusion had a substantial update for the 2010 model year, with a new interior, new powertrains,...