Nine Speeds, Ten Speeds: All To Keep Up With CAFE

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist 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.). This ...

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, ...

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 ...

Some Myths Just Won’t Die

Every few months or so someone (usually a non-member) sends us an email that goes something like this: How can your organization support 65 mph speed limits or even higher? Don’t you know that there’s only so much oil in the ...

Driving News Roundup: January 25, 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. Iowa: Traffic camera ban, restrictions on the table in Iowa Legislature Opponents of traffic enforcement cameras ...

TheNewspaper.com Roundup: January 16, 2013

Each Wednesday, we'll publish quick summaries of the articles from the last week on TheNewspaper.com. We're doing this because these articles are often strongly connected to the issues that National Motorists Association members are interested in. Wednesday, January 16, 2013 South ...

Avoiding The Ethanol Blues

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Ethanol-laced "gas" (10 percent ethanol today, 15 percent soon) isn't all bad. Just mostly bad.

Driving News Roundup: December 14, 2012

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. Ohio: Hundreds of speeding tickets thrown out in Elmwood Place Village workers said nearly 1,000 tickets ...