<![CDATA[Jalopnik: 2002]]> http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: 2002]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/2002 http://jalopnik.com/tag/2002 <![CDATA[How new does a car have to be for you to consider it a "new car"?]]> What qualifies as a "new car" varies greatly depending on who you ask. Some people think a car becomes "old" as soon as it is no longer showroom fresh. A former co-worker of mine who restored Model-Ts used to tell me he didn't care much for "newer cars" like my 54 year old Plymouth Belvedere. This weekend we want to know about your definition. How new does a car have to be for you to consider it a "new car"? More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5834233&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[When Argentina ruled the Nürburgring]]> There are two great moments in Argentine motoring history centered around the Nürburgring and then there’s a third, a fourth-place finish at a race you’ve never heard of. Of course it’s the latter that’s the pride and joy of Argentine car enthusiasts: the story of the Torinos at the 1969 Nürburgring 84 Hours. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5827242&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Jeepvette is what happens when Jeep and Corvette combine]]> We aren't exactly sure what inspires someone to put a Jeep CJ-7 body and the chassis of a 1984 Corvette, but this is what the mostly finished result looks like. This odd combination is currently on Ebay waiting for someone else who wants a Corvette that looks like a Jeep badly enough to finish up this bizarre project. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5824207&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Watch the story of one man's bond with a BMW 2002]]> The fifth installment of Josh Clason's excellent Depth of Speed series tells one man's story of a lifetime spent lusting after BMW 2002's. Featured in this video is the beautiful Inka Orange round taillight vintage BMW that belongs to 2002 devotee Sky Lund. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5824199&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1976 BMW 2002]]> Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. I've been passing this car by for a few months, because I mistook it for this 2002Tii. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5506059&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The 2002 Chevy Avalanche: Begging For a Knuckle Sandwich!]]> Like, there's this weasely-looking little guy, ya know, and he wants change for a dollar. So, like, I changed my SUV into a truck and took his money! Yeah, I totally made him my bitch! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5481698&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Video Peek Inside BMW's Secret Motorsport Warehouse]]> One week ago, I rediscovered pictures I took inside BMW's closed-to-the-public motorsport museum. Those images were four years old, however, and their pron was limited. Now someone has YouTubed an off-the-cuff video tour of the same building. McLaren overload, anyone? More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5480267&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1971 BMW 2002]]> Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. I believe Alameda has more 2002s than E21s. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5474035&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Finally, A Place to Put Those Sisal Mats — for $11,750!]]> It's hard to believe, but there was a time when BMW wasn't the aspirational ride of douchebags mid-level executives everywhere. Nice Price or Crack Pipe remembers, and today has the car that turned all that around. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5452123&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[LeMons Torture Test Results: BMW 2002]]> What's the best-performing LeMons BMW? The E30 does all right, but the lighter, simpler 2002 is a better bet if you want to keep racing all weekend. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5450075&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Junkyard Jackpot: BMW 2002, Corolla GT-S, Triumph Spitfire]]> Just yards away from the now-much-picked-over junked Volvo Amazon, I stumbled across this incredible trifecta of junkyardy goodness at my local self-service yard. Three cars that each deserve the full Jalopnik Stamp-O-Approval™! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5317460&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1976 BMW 2002]]> Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. 2002s everywhere on the island, so let's see another!
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5158092&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1976 BMW 2002]]> Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Ready for yet another street-driven BMW 2002?
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5122837&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1972 BMW 2002]]> Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. BMW 2002s are plentiful on the island (we've seen a beater '72, a '73 2002Tii, and a massive-bumpered slushbox '75 so far), though technically this one isn't on the island. I've ventured over to Bay Farm Island (which was once literally an island but is now attached to the mainland at the Oakland Airport, just as the island part of Alameda was once a peninsula), which is part of Alameda but lacks sufficient garage-less housing to make for happy DOTS hunting. However, it's still possible to find interesting machinery where Jack London once went oyster pirating, and I've found this clean round-taillight 2002 there.
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5073125&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PCH, Financiapocalypse Moonshine Runner Edition: Mercury Marauder or BMW 850i?]]> Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! With the Dow taking it in the shorts today, we're all thinking about how we'll keep afloat during the hard times that seem to be looming, if not already here. Naturally, federal, state, and local governments are thinking the same thing, and that means they're going to jack up the taxes on booze! Which, as students of Southern United States history know, that means opportunity for enterprising gearheads willing to assist the makers of fine lead-and-glycol-enhanced alcoholic beverages in getting their products to thirsty, unemployment-maddened consumers who won't have the wheelbarrows full of hyperinflated cash necessary to pay the revenoors' bite. Yes, you'll need to convert a big, fast car into a white-liquor-haulin' moonshine runner!
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5061316&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1975 BMW 2002, With Bonus 1975 Poll]]> Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. BMW 2002s aren't hard to find on the island, and we've seen this '72, this '73, and this '75 so far. I've built up a mini-stockpile of 2002 shots, so let's check out another '75 Bavario-Alamedan today.
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5057725&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1972 BMW 2002]]> Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Today we're going to look at a fairly rough BMW 2002- a total beater, in fact- that still sees daily-driver duty for its owner. This car parks on one of the busiest streets on the island (quite close to the '77 Olds Custom Cruiser), looks like hell, yet gets the transportation job done just as well as any boring 5-year-old Sentra. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=399562&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Bavaria In The Rockies: A Trio Of Colorado BMW Survivors]]> This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than Island That Rust Forgot. I've got quite the stockpile of photographs from Denver, thanks to Kitt, EJacobs, and my own bimonthly visits to the Mile High City. Today we're going to have another 3-Fer-1 Colorado-palooza, with one BMW from each of us! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=398988&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[You Can't Buy Jenna Jameson, But You Can Buy Her Car!]]> Missed out on Lindsay Lohan's Mercedes? Not to worry! If you've got a spare $182,900 rattling around in your piggy bank, you can buy Jenna Jameson's 2002 Lamborghini Murcielago! This little Italian cream puff has less than 12K miles on the clock- no doubt just to church on Sundays- and owning it will tell the world... well, we're not quite sure what message you're sending out when you're driving the Queen of Porn's former ride. But owning this car in 50 years will be like having Mickey Cohen's armored Cadillac today, so you figure it's a good "notorious celebrity" investment! [eBay Motors] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=375779&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Rust Didn't Kill This 2002, But The Crusher Surely Will]]> After seeing a Jeep Gladiator and a Peugeot 504 in East Bay junkyards so far this week, we should probably take a look at an old BMW giving its life that other 2002s might live. It looks like something heavy was dropped on this car's roof at some point (evidence of a rollover collision seems absent), but otherwise this car is fairly solid. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=370021&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[1975 BMW 2002]]> Now, I used to think the infamous "black-bumper" MGBs of the Early Malaise Era had to most horrible incarnations of the monstrous 5MPH crash bumpers of the period. After seeing this '75 2002, however, I may have to revise my opinion. This car's bumpers are hideous! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=359970&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Project Car Hell, Richmond Edition: 2002 or 300ZX?]]> The Neon trounced the Protege in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll, which is something of a surprise given that a Protege won the Thunderhill race and would be more hellish to set up as a race car due to the automatic transmission. But no matter- today we're going to see which of two radically different cars will trounce the other like Robert E. Lee trounced the Yankees at Chancellorsville, because we're heading to former Confederate States of America capitol Richmond Virginia (thanks- and a Project Car Hell Tipster T-shirt- to tipster Josh). More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=339881&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mazda Protegechero!]]> If you've got an '02 Mazda Protege, is it enough to add turbocharging and nitrous? No? How about a lurid green-and-orange paint job? Sorry, but you need to have a truck bed on your turbocharged, nitrous-enhanced Protege before you've earned any bragging rights. Fortunately, such a vehicle is available right now on eBay Motors, with a Buy It Now price just under 20 grand. We figure this truckcar should be called a Protegechero rather than a Protegamino due to Mazda's long relationship with Ford, but we're willing to listen to arguments from the pro-Protegamino faction. Let's hope LeMons-winning Team Red Meat and Poontang takes the hint and adds a truck bed to their race car ASAP! [eBay Motors] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=339364&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PCH, Italian Stallion Edition: Ferrari Mondial or Maserati Coupe?]]> It's been a few days since our last Choose Your Eternity Poll (in which the overwhelming majority of voters opted for Hopped-Up Crown Victoria Hell), but the series returns today with a vengeance! We've been spending a lot of time in British Car Hell lately, but we mustn't forget England's perennial rival for the Hell Project Crown: Italy. And we're not talking Fiats or Lancias or even Bianchis this time around... nope, get ready to dive into the real inferno! More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338383&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Akl Shows Off 1974 BMW 2000Tii Touring]]> Earlier we introduced you to Akl's garage, now we're going to show you Akl's daily driver. Parked right in front of that bitching treasure chest is a 1974 BMW 2000Tii Touring. That's right the BMW boys built a touring model of the uber-tossable little sedan - sort of the German version of a shooting brake. While there are probably only about a hundred of these in all of Germany, Akl puts twenty thousand clicks on his, thumbing his nose at the namby pamby preservationist sissies. Putting on all those K's would seem like a tedious business given the stop-go and heavy truck traffic of the modern, EU border crossing free Autobahn. That's were Akl has a clever little trick up his sleeve. He has equipped it a 1600E Becker Mexico vintage modern stereo system. Yep, the one that looks old, but hides the CF and SD reader built into it. We can't help but wonder if this was the inspiration for that M Coupe that's perrenially on our list to Santa. Dig that copper paint job. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338054&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[More German Garage Pr0n]]> Alexander "Akl" Z. is a man living what many of us would consider "the dream." He has a nice big house in the German countryside, not one, but two, two lift garages, a positive pressure paint booth, and more automotive treasures than you can shake a schweinebraten at. Keeping messy garages full of cool cars must be a German national pastime. Under the vintage black Mercedes is a competition ready BMW 2002 set up for hill climb racing. Against the back wall is an E21 set up for cup racing. Under the mint condition BMW 3.0 CSi is an old Escort destined for rally time. Another something sits in the middle of it all after a fresh paint job. It looks French, but that's highly doubtful in Germany, anybody know what that is? We especially dig the palm trees littering the garage, it makes things feel so exotic. We're used to the girly posters and smelly old dogs, but this works too. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338028&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Look What Parked In Front Of My House: 1976 BMW 2002]]> You can't escape BMW Week, you can only hope to contain it. When people ask me if I liked living in San Francisco I say, "No." When pressed, I will admit that I miss the burritos (El Farolito and Cancun FTW!). When pressed even more, I'll cop to loving that there were more BMW 2002s on the streets than there were krusty, homeless, single-issue, performance artists. Kidding on that last bit, but there were an awful lot of two ought-ought twos to be ogled. No big surprise that when I walked out to get my morning... whatever it is I get on Saturdays, I was STOKED to see this gray-skinned beauty. Even better, she belongs to my neighbor and he let me open her up and shoot away. It's a project car that he doesn't have time for (his insanely great sounding, blue-printed 1966 Mustang 289 is quite demanding) so he's had the little Bimmer in storage for the last few years. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=305197&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Have You Ever Stayed In A Relationship Because Of A Car?]]> Even when it's not, it is still somehow BMW Week. The Postfather has deemed this weekend's question "brilliant," and I as his loyal, sniveling lackey concur. From the Jalopnik commenter who calls himself TeacherSnake:
Earlier this week, my recently X girlfriend came by my apartment for the awkward post relationship stuff exchange. And she was driving a 1973 Cherry Red BMW 2002, that her parents had bought for her just after the breakup. Talk about a way to get your mind off your troubles. As the little Bimmer drove away, I couldn't help but quote a magician named Gob and say, "I've made a huge mistake." So my question is, have you ever stayed in a relationship because of a car?
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=305183&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Project Car Hell: KA24DE 510 or Turbo 2002?]]> After the decrepit Crosley wagon just barely edged out the parts-nightmare DAF in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll, we figured it was time to put up a couple of projects that would give you plenty of Insane Hoonage Potential for the money (while still driving you completely berserk with frustration and sucking flurries of Benjamins out of your wallet, of course). And, inspired by today's DOTS car, we're going to let you debate the merits of the combatants in the never-ending BMW 2002-Datsun 510 rivalry. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=289588&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[BMW 2002tii]]> After being a year off on yesterday's DOTS car, I'm not going out on a limb with this BMW; I think it's a '73, but those damn Huns didn't change the tii's design much, it's not in the state's smog history database, and I'm too damn lazy to walk four blocks and look at the dashboard VIN plate (if it even has one). So, BMW fanatics, here's your chance to kick your Bayerische Motoren Werke kuh-nowledge by telling us all the year of this Alameda East End Beemer. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=289585&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Breathing New Life: BMW E30 M3 Four in a 2002]]> The thing about transplants is you have to make sure the body doesn't reject the foreign organ. That's not the case with this 1974 BMW 2002 built by A1 Imports Autoworks in California. They replaced the original 1990 cc with the 2.5-liter S14 from an E30 M3. Not just any S14, but the S14 EVO, a limited-edition 1989 variant. Stroker kit, check. Hoonage potential, off the charts. Call it a DIY 135i. [Thanks to John for the tip.] – Mike Spinelli More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=273520&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[US-Bound BMW 1-Series to Be Antidote to 3-Series?]]> As well engineered as the BMW 3-Series is, there's no denying it's become quite a bloat float in the past 25 years. If the entry-level (in the US) Bimmer suffers from anything these days, it's a lack of economy, a tendency toward porkage and an Emmitt Smith approach to the dance. I've had countless conversations with car nuts — some of whom would catch a grenade in their teeth for BMW — that ended in, "Of course, if only they would do a new take on the '71 2002, all would be right with the world." According to Automotive News, the new 1-Series coupe on the way to the US is that car — the one to "lure enthusiasts back into the fold." "The 1 series," Rich Brekus, general manager of product planning and strategy at BMW of North America told AN's Rick Kranz, "is the purest BMW we have." And a return to purity is an enthusiast's greatest hope. Right? – Mike Spinelli More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=265791&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Megasquirted 2002 on the Streets of San Francisco]]> Last night, we popped by the 500 Club in San Francisco with Friend o' tha Jalop Melissa. The place was reasonably packed, so we asked a couple of guys if we could share their booth. We got to chitchatting about jobs and whatnot (In SF, introductions are more often than not followed by the inevitable "So, what do you do?"); we explained that we are one of the people that exist in the form of Jalopnik.com, and John mentioned that he had a 2002. We asked if he'd seen Finkbuilt Steve's Megasquirt conversion. Turns out, he was fully aware of it, and what's more, had done a Megasquirt conversion of his own. More impressively, the 2002 is his first project; he'd never really turned a wrench in anger before starting work on the '73 Bimmer. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=225255&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[DIY EFI Finkbuilt Bimmer Project Done!]]> As we seem to comment every time we post on something that Finkbuilt Steve has put up, we simply don't check his site often enough. A half-year ago or so, we noted that he was putting together an open-source Megasquirt- controlled EFI system for his BMW 2002. Well, now he's done, but for tweaks here and there to the software, and as he notes, "Finally, my once high-tech sports sedan can keep up with today's econo-box hybrids." – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=224511&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Punched In The Fun Bags: DaimlerChrysler Recalls 2006 Dodge Ram 1500 Pickups Over Air Bags]]> The 'merican side of the German-American hybrid today announced it was recalling 145,000 '06 Dodge Ram 1500 pickups to replace the "passenger air bag pack" and reprogram the 'puter telling it how to deploy. While it's in the shop, they're gonna just go ahead and also replace the "front passenger seat assembly" because there's a chance it may not allow certain child restraint systems to be properly secured. Oof, flying babies — not a good thing. In a totally unrelated recall... More »
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