Retro-Review: Ford Maverick Grabber, 1970-’75

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist There is an interesting species of near muscle car that came into being and briefly existed for a handful of years, beginning in the early 1970s -- just as the high tide of the real muscle ...

Fizzle

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist If electric cars are The Future, why are so many automakers -- quietly -- backing away from them? GM has decided against mass production of its Adam electric city-car. Audi has kiboshed the Tesla-esque electric R8 that ...

Driving News Roundup: April 26, 2013

This is a weekly feature on the NMA Blog, running each Friday, where we highlight seven of the most interesting driving news stories of the week. Texas: Woodlands red-light cameras terminated After almost six years of operations, the Montgomery County Precinct 3 ...

Does it Ever Make Sense to Buy a New Car?

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist I'll probably get in trouble. After all, I write new car reviews. Advising people not to buy new cars is not what you'd probably expect. But, here's the fulsome scurvy truth: I -- and every car ...

2015 Mustang… Probe Revisited?

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Mustang people will recall the hollow point bullet that was dodged back in the early '90s when Ford almost ruined the iconic RWD American pony car. By turning it into an import-style FWD car. That car, ...

Driving News Roundup: April 5, 2013

This is a weekly feature on the NMA Blog, running each Friday, where we highlight seven of the most interesting driving news stories of the week. NHTSA looking for power to fast-track "noncontroversial" auto laws When it comes to any new regulation ...

Priusization of the Nation: How Toyota Changed the World

By The Car Family It started fairly innocuously with Toyota's introduction of the Prius in 2000. It was ugly, underpowered and cramped, but the technology and fuel mileage were stunning for the price. The word was that Toyota was losing money ...

Diesel Dilemma

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Summer's coming -- and so (probably) are higher gas prices. There has already been a nationwide uptick of about 40 cents a gallon over the past few months -- and we're still a few weeks away ...

New Enough

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist There's a sweet spot I'd like to tell you about. It's not a great place to eat -- or the RPM at which an engine really starts to sing. I'm talking about the sweet spot that ...

Retro Review: De Tomaso Pantera, 1971-1993

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Say Pantera -- and many people think '70s. Maybe '80s. Not 1993. But that was in fact the final year you could buy a brand-new Pantera (the very limited-run Pantera SI; of which only about 40 examples ever ...