The Solo DL is one of the latest Data Acquisition (DAQ) systems from AiM. What is a DAQ? Simply put, DAQ systems record lap times and vehicle data for analysis that can be used to improve driver performance. Calling this a lap timer would be missing the plot and is likely to get you scratched [...]

M: Where are we going? Bond: Back in time. In Skyfall, the third James Bond film since the 2006 series reboot, Casino Royale, Bond does go back in time, but not in the way you might think. The title Skyfall evokes images of the world’s satellites crashing down at the hands of Quantum, hell bent [...]

I am a huge fan of Gordon Ramsay and his popular TV show Kitchen Nightmares, in which he travels to restaurants on the verge of failure and tries to turn them around in less than a week. Chef Ramsay (sometimes) accomplishes this using his expertise in the industry, very high standards, and tough brutal love. [...]

My 2012 Boss 302 had barely cooled-off from its first drive home, when I made the first modification – opening-up the exhaust by removing the sound attenuation discs that were clogging the side pipes. I have had the car for two months now and have made a few other modifications, most of them just general [...]

From the opening riff, lifted straight from the 1982 songTrue to Life (and surely a wink and nod to the fans), this is Roxy Music’s first album in 28 years. Bryan Ferry has said that he considered making Olympia an official Roxy record, but felt the material was more suited for a solo album. Perhaps, [...]

Note: Car and Driver has just published their first issue of 2010, with a new Editor, a new look, and a new vision. This is a repost from an earlier version of my blog. I have made a minimal number of edits. Since I was five years old, one of the greatest pleasures of my [...]

Happy Halloween! As a way of celebrating (lame excuse), I have decided to review one of my favorite breakfast cereals from my childhood – Franken Berry. I say from my childhood because like many middle-aged people, I have long graduated from colorful, sugary kid cereals to sober, unsweetened mixtures of granola, whole grains, and tree [...]

We have all been there. We want need a computer, gadget, phone, camera, car, or girlfriend that is/has/does “this, this, this, and that”, but we won’t can’t wait and we just jump-in, even though the option available to us might only offer “this, this, and that” (and maybe even the that isn’t so great). It [...]