Dan Roth

"Being close" matters with horseshoes, hand grenades and misguided arithmetic. In past years, the Infiniti G sedan has been close, but compared to the Kaiser of the Klasse, BMW's 3 Series, the G35 was near the stake, but not a ringer. "Almost as good," we'd all nod, "but its biggest strength is that it's a bargain." When the G37 arrived, our initial thought was it was simply an amplified G35, a ca...

On a long, uninteresting stretch of highway, one can go a little batty. There's not much to see out the window, you're stuck in a trough between radio stations and the engine has been humming at 2200 rpm for the last 90 miles. A driver might start pondering cosmic riddles like "Why are we here?, Which came first, the chicken or the egg?, or What would happen if I shifted from "D" to "R" right now?...

Letting someone else deal with the day to day expenses of maintaining an automobile (and just paying for what you use) seems to be a novel idea. Joining a "car share," such as the popular Zipcar car sharing service, is gaining in popularity as consumers look to other ways to save money. By using a car share, you're not only shedding monthly car payments, taxes, insurance and upkeep, but you can le...

There's already been a silent technology explosion in automobiles over the last ten years. Command and control has become largely a computerized affair. With high and low speed data buses throughout the automobile, your car is basically a network. It used to be that you'd press the power window switch and current would flow to a motor, or it would trigger a relay. It was simple to execute in the d...

I wanted to hate this thing. Toyota? Taking on the last bastion of red blooded American pickups? Yeah, right! The domestic manufacturers have kept cranking up quality, capability and refinement levels -- who's this upstart think it is, anyway? Not only has the Tundra garnered a metric crapload of commentary, it's ugly. Okay, not to everyone, but it reminds me of that time I got sand in my eyelids....