Tesla Model S Is “Car of the Year”
Nice to see the Tesla Model S win Motor Trend’s “Car of the Year.” It’s the first time in the magazine’s 64-year history that the prize hasn’t gone to an automobile with an internal combustion engine. Writing for Motor Trend, editor-at-large Angus MacKenzie sums it up: “It drives like a sports car, eager and agile and instantly responsive. But it’s also as smoothly effortless as a Rolls-Royce, can carry almost as much stuff as a Chevy Equinox, and is more efficient than a Toyota Prius.”
I want one!
I was lucky enough to see Hal Holbrook deliver his one-man show “Mark Twain Tonight!” on Saturday evening. Holbrook’s opening night was in 1954 (the year before I was born) since which there have been over 2000 performances. Let’s just make an understatement: he’s seriously good at this.
Yes, the audience is transported, but perhaps the most remarkable thing about the content of the performance is how little change there has been in our perception of the incompetence and corruption in government, which, of course, was the fodder for so many of Twain’s pithy remarks during his life.
It’s becoming increasingly important to find cars and driving habits that will reduce our dependence on traditional fuel, while limiting the amount of CO2 and other emissions produced by vehicles. Guilt-free motoring, both in terms of what our cars produce, and how much strain on our bank accounts it produces, is probably not going to happen anytime soon. However, hybrids represent one way of lowering your individual debt by investing in cars with dual electric motors and batteries. Hybrids are now a commonplace option for drivers, with all major car manufacturers producing them. 
