Category Archives: Drive

Announcing Mini Cockpit Reviews!
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Announcing Mini Cockpit Reviews!

  Two of your Boomerguys Editors, Will and George Avgerakis, are members of the International Motorsports Press Association or IMPA.  IMPA sponsors various events throughout the years where representatives of automotive products (like cars), demonstrate their goods and, well, we gen a chance to drive some. Now, the experience of getting behind the wheel of […]

Hell of a Cat!
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Hell of a Cat!

Track Review: Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Named after the iconic WWII Grumman F6F fighter plane, the Dodge version drove up before me in the parking lot of the Monticello Motor Club producing as much anticipation as I might imagine getting if the real “ace-maker” fighter had appeared.  Although I’ve not yet flown a 2,000 hp […]

Downshifting Into Humility
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Downshifting Into Humility

On my 40th birthday, my wife took me out for dinner. It was an amazing meal at David Bouley’s restaurant in New York City, which, if you have not been there, is “to die for.” About halfway through, my wife said she wanted to give me my birthday present, but that I would have to guess what it was. […]

How To Legally Break 110 MPH
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How To Legally Break 110 MPH

If you like going fast but are tired of getting speeding tickets and risking a serious accident, there is a way that is legal, relatively safe and lots of fun. If you own a fast exotic car, like a Corvette, Ferrari or Lamborgini, you probably already know that you can take your car to a […]

Why Not Single-Payer Auto Insurance?
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Why Not Single-Payer Auto Insurance?

Many boomer-age Americans believe that the time is ripe for automobile insurance “reform.”  Current liability and collision coverage policies are built around the most costly, inefficient model – that is, multiple commercial insurances that drive wasteful complexity and high administrative costs. Commercial multi-payer auto insurances rely on public subsidies to preserve private insurance profits. The private […]

Can Ya Get a Ten-Foot 2×4 in a GM SUV?
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Can Ya Get a Ten-Foot 2×4 in a GM SUV?

I recently got the full engineering lecture on the new GMC Terrain from Vehicle Chief Engineer for Global Compact SUVs at General Motors, Mark Cieslak, and you tech nerds will love what I found out.  And yes, because the front seat now folds down flat like all the back seats, you can slide a 10’ […]