Archive for February 2006

Okay. Today’s is a column where readers from other parts of the country and the rest of the world get to feel all smug and superior. The subject is our typically good driving conditions in Southern California, and how we sometimes seem to take them for granted. It has never ceased to amaze me how…

This issue of AutoMatters & More is about a personal mobility device. The Zappy3 is a three-wheeled, electric scooter. The electric motor is in the front wheel hub. I don’t know if they all come this way but mine arrived in two boxes – one large, 70 pound box which contained a partially assembled Zappy3, and…

I don’t think that I have ever written back-to-back auto reviews before but after Pioneer Centres in San Diego (www.pioneerporsche.com) offered me an opportunity to drive their newest model of Porsche for a day, I felt compelled to tell you about the experience as soon as possible. The beautiful 2006 Porsche Cayman S is a…

The subject of today’s column is one of my “Real World Road Tests” of a car, but it begs for some discussion of a broader subject: cars as Point A to Point B transportation devices versus cars that also target the joy of driving. For many years and through all of its generations, Toyota’s Camry…