The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This one now resides in the same San Jose Pick-n-Pull as three Renault Dauphines (including a Gordini ). What was the last year in which you could buy a new car in the United States with a manual choke lever from the factory? It couldn't have been much later than the early 1970s. That was money left on the table!

Volvo 86

Volvo San Jose California Vermont 86

Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

San Jose, Calif., Cheap pays off Although the Adobe group made some key technical breakthroughs, three other components were necessary to make PostScript a runaway success not just in low-volume professional publishing but in the high-volume office environment. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer.

Design 107

Design Engine Standards San Francisco 107

Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. In a recent review of the Summer Games, an Epyx sports game for the C-64, the San Jose, Calif. It’s only sand.”

Engine 120

Engine Design Personal Production 120

Plugs and Cars

JULY 9, 2007

As I read in the San Jose Mercury News about California's flex-fuel fleet fiasco. a near silent electric trolley bus passes by my window on Haight St in San Francisco, an old technology tried, true, and spurned by the environmental "experts" of the present and recent past. It's cheap to make a car flex-fuel.

Fuel 100

Fuel Gasoline San Jose San Francisco 100