Remembering my friend Warbro I remember when the Volkswagen Touareg came out and my good friend, Warren Brown was mad as spit. Touareg is a group of nomadic people from the Saharan interior of North Africa, originally named Tuareg. It bothered Brown that Tuaregs were slave runners and there would be a car named after [...]
100 lives a day. Start every article with that. One hundred lives a day are taken, and this is the first tool in years that has addressed the problem with a solution. That was the request of Mark Rosekind, the former head of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). A man that looked [...]
I was sitting next to Tim, a seventeen-year young man, chatting about cars. I told him I was going to North Carolina to drive the new 2019 Volkswagen Jetta. Tim drives a midsize truck that he said gets nine miles per gallon. I didn't ask him how souped up it was, or how he drove [...]
The Atlas is the third VW named after a Greek Titan, the Eos and the Phaeton preceding the Atlas. In ancient mythology, Atlas was a leader in battle but lost. Big bad Zeus condemned him to eternally stand on the western side of Gaea (the earth) holding it up to the sky. Well before the [...]