The bloom is off the rose so to speak. By Wallace Wyss - I'm talking about the latest pie-in-the-sky panacea foisted upon us: driverless taxis. San Francisco has been experimenting with it. Caroline Graham described the ensuing chaos in The … [Read more...]
Steve Wozniak Gives Elon Musk and Tesla an Earful
May 8, 2023 By Leave a Comment
A Way Out for Elon... by Wallace Wyss - An editorial on a site called Futurism.com quotes another wunderkind of the Silicon Valley Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. This website quotes Wozniak arguing that "the Elon Musk-led company's … [Read more...]
Barn Finds: The Postman’s Ferrari 250 GTO
May 1, 2023 By 6 Comments
Hey, your occupation might not matter if you’re first in line with the cash... by Wallace Wyss - What if you were a postman and somebody offered you a tatty old racecar? You would think, well, that could be expensive to repair, but what the … [Read more...]
All the World’s a Stage
April 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment
by Wallace Wyss - One of my favorite lines from an auto writer is when Ron Wakefield once wrote in Road & Track "I have seen the future and it's no longer such a long way off." I recently wrote about Ford planning to offer as an option … [Read more...]
Editorial: The Coming Death (and Re-Birth) of Varoom
April 23, 2023 By 6 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Back when I was a wet behind the ears copywriter on the Chevrolet account, in the Sixties, one headline I wrote was selected for an ad. Not sure if it was for a Camaro or Corvette but the key word was the one word headline … [Read more...]
A Unique Car Show Just For British Cars
April 22, 2023 By 1 Comment
Scheduled for Los Angeles April 23, 2023... by Wallace Wyss - Now mostly yours truly goes to concours d'elegance where the cars are grouped by make and only right and proper restored apply and judges go about, brows furrowed, fretting … [Read more...]
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