2 Wheels Maybe

[Imaginary Fossil Free Friday bonus points for anyone who visits all six clickable links.] Do you ever feel like you're looking in the wrong direction? Maybe you're walking along looking at a bug in the grass while not noticing the alligator walking down the street ? I do that sort of thing a lot. Every day I find my nose pointed in the wrong direction to see what everyone else is gawking at. Snagit Kia! I want the little blue beast! Kia put out a new electric car ad this week. And it made me happy until the plot turned and I realized I had been looking at the bug in the grass while they had the (really cool) alligator parked in the  garage. See the video here I saw the little blue car and immediately started having Logan's Run fantasies - I've had a lot more of those since visiting the fountains in Fort Worth . But I saw the wedge front end and was thrilled to see a modern incarnation of my beloved Citicar . And I saw the digital readouts i...

It's a good thing I'm not independently wealthy; otherwise, this announcement might have started a whole new obsession or at least cost my family a whole lot of time and money! (No worries, Honey, I keep chanting my "No new projects!" mantra.) Yes, I know I'm an eco-dork. I fully realized it a few years back when I started wanting an electric car - a very specific electric car - the Vanguard Citicar. Until the Tesla came around, the Citicar was the most successful electric car created on American soil. (It's not as impressive as it sounds - we Norte Americanos have had little love for electric cars.) To this day, I get excited when that distinctive wedge shape pops up in any media. Recently, the little-car-that-barely-could popped up on Jalopnik in an article about the 24 Hrs of Lemons . So I clicked on it immediately. There was a little disappointment when I realized that there was no actual Citicar in the article, but I was still excited to see the...