Car and Drivers Editor-In-Chief, Csaba Csere, hits the nail on the head: Now I have a laundry list of problems with Senator Obama, but one of my biggest is that he has repeatedly shown that he has absolutely zero knowledge on many policy issues. Ranging from taxes to health care, defense to trade and of course, energy. When I heard that he slammed Senator McCain for wanting to drill ...

On the radio right now is Blink 182's 'Dammit' (I Guess This Is Growing Up). Damn what a great song. Released in 1997 on the Dude Ranch CD it takes me back to high school and my fling with bad punk and early Emo. I thought that I might take a moment to list off some of those guilty pleasures that I still occasionally pull off my file ...

Last night my wife and I decided that we wanted to catch a late showing of The Dark Knight. I've been pumped for this movie since Batman Begins came out a couple years ago. That was the finest comic book adaptation I had ever seen. It was well scripted, flawlessly acted (except for Katie Holmes) with brilliant cinematography and direction. All around, it was nearly a perfect movie. ...

Several people have asked what the status of the Mural Project is. So here is a quick update. Pictures have been taken but the film has yet to be processed. The reasons for this are plenty, one is that I've been busy, two is that I've been sick and three is that I've been lazy. Not a very promising update, but there we have it. I'll be heading up ...

The other day my wife and I began doing some redecorating of our home. We added some mirrors over the dining room table, moved some photos and bought some house plants. In our dining room we have a little serving bar that we've had some framed vinyl records hanging over for the better part of the past two years. Taking those down made me inspired to do something ...

I wanted to inform all of you, the loyal readers of OverDrive Blog, that things are going to be changing around here. OverDrive Blog was started with the intention to bring fun and exciting automotive news to the masses. I'm not going to say that we failed, but we certainly didn't succeed. With one of the collaborators going off to law school, another with multiple blog related commitments ...

I just read in the Detroit News that several states and Canada are offering cash to trade in older, 'less clean' vehicles for new, 'cleaner' vehicles. Now, these vehicles have to fail an emissions test, be ten years old or older and must be owned by lower income families. Additionally, they can only be traded towards those environmental travesties called hybrids or vehicles under $25,000. The aim of ...

No, this was something colloquially referred to as 'rockcrawling'. Rock ledges and narrow, steep paths many people would scoff at were easily conquered by the vehicles ahead of us on the trail. I was amazed. But I wasn't so sure about our little Samurai. The other vehicles on the trail, Jeeps and Toyotas with big lifts and large tires sure, but our little Suzuki? To say I ...

It was January of 1993 and my Dad made his intentions clear, he and I were going to this 'Jeep Safari' in April. As the date approached my Dad put some larger (215 vs. 205) all season tires on the Samurai and made sure the little SUV was in tip top shape. When the departure date arrived, my Dad and I loaded up the Samurai with our coolers and ...

My Dad's green Renault blew its engine. It was shocking. The car that had sadly taken my father away to work in the mornings and that I had eagerly awaited for his return in the evenings was gone. I was quite literally in tears. To me the Renault somehow represented my father, and with its passing how could I ever recognize my fathers comings and goings? My little ...