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If you're anything like us, you've invested hours and hours and hours of your life flipping through the pages of your local Auto & RV. The offering printed with cheap ink and even cheaper recycled paper leaves you stained both physically and mentally. Within its pages you can find both deals and rip-offs, treasures and tragedies, but you always find something you want. As such, we picked a random page in our favorite section — Collectibles and Classics (though Under $4,000 is pretty great too) and snapped an image. Now you tell us what you'd be tempted to take home and why. More »
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Always wanted an "Aero Wars" muscle car from the early '70s like the Plymouth Roadrunner Superbird, or the Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II, but have never been able to afford one? Well, if you desire an attainable NASCAR homologation special, how about one of these GM G-body specials from the '80s? What we have here is an '86 Pontiac Grand Prix Aerocoupe and an '87 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupe, each for sale on eBay. Now, these may not be the most desirable cars right now, but give 'em 20 years and who knows how much they'll be worth. More »
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If only we knew what we were doing when we starting handing out gold stars to the commentariat. Though we may have given the impression that there was some sort of incredible genius behind our decisions, it was sort of a crap shoot. There are lots of deserving commenters out there who will, if they stop pleading, get one of the awesome stars. Yes, the same ones that convey magical powers. Instead of making a diligent effort to get stars into the right commenter accounts, we decided to ask you what to call these special individuals. What we, in our dictatorial-totalitarian-undemocratic rage, deemed the ten best below, with a poll. More »
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We had a late surge of votes for the best post-apocalytpic vehicle contest, though it didn't change the score that much. It turns out our readers love the flexibility, mobility and amphibious nature of the Finnish Sisu XA-185 (and other Sisu XA derivatives). With the Sisu getting first place with 28.7% of the vote and the Buffalo Force Protection Vehicle coming in second with 16.6%, it's clear that in the radioactive zombie-infected future you all prefer brute force to creature comforts. More »
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With the Malaisetastic '80 Plymouth Fire Arrow that we saw yesterday on my mind, I got to thinking about the meaning of the Malaise Era, specifically about the American-built vehicles sold during that period. Not captive imports like the Fire Arrow or quasi-domestics like the Capri, but real Detroit (or Kenosha) machinery. And, yes, I know that Jimmy Carter never actually uttered the word "Malaise" in his so-called Crisis of Confidence speech in 1979; what started as a joke term for the cars of the 1973-1983 period has now hardwired itself into my brain). Then I realized that I've forgotten the quasi-tradition of having a Friday poll for the readers to vote on their favorite DOTS machine of the week, so I owe you some DOTS poll action. That means it's time to jump like the late-70s inflation rate to pick your favorite of Alameda's Malaisewagons!
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With today's Down On The Street car a mid-1980s Japanese immigrant- and having burned through most of my stockpile of BDRE (Before Datsun Rebranding Era, i.e., 1982) Japanese DOTS photos in honor of our Japan Week festivities- the time has come for us to decide just how old a Japanese car must be to make it in the series. Here in Alameda, early ADRE Japanese cars are so common that I don't really notice most of them, but maybe they've all turned to red dust in the rest of the country... More »
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Of all the facts in a New York Times More »
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Lately, we've been rather consumed with the Silver Jews' "Punks in the Beerlight," a song that drops a totally sensical nonsensical non-sequitur in the form of diminutive French painter and poster artist Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec. Considering he died in 1901, there wasn't a vast vehicular choice available to him. But were the man alive today, loaded with the cash that's changed hands over his art since his demise, what would dear Henri drive? – Davey G. Johnson More »
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Although a merger of unequals between the Goliath-like General and the futzing-around FoMoCo won't be happening, it doesn't mean bloggers can't dream. Tonight, we'll go to sleep with mergers and acquisitions of automakers dancing in our heads, with Alan Mulally courting Rick Wagoner with sugar plums on a candyland-like people mover, flowing on an elevated chocolate river (just like the original Detroit People Mover was designed to do). Ok, really...that's more of a nightmare, but whatevs. Anyway, help us dream a dream of a mega-merger: More »
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Since GM got off pretty easy, beating analyst expectations and only dropping 19.5%, there's a clear winner when it comes to Big Three sales figures. But...both DaimlerChrysler and FoMoCo had some pretty piss-poor sales numbers in July — both down 34% in overall sales for the month. With that type of a photo finish, we need a poll to settle this fair and square...like a game of rock, paper and scissors...but less scientific. More »
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So the Detroit Free Press (and local TV station, WDIV) polled 800 Michigan residents about what kind of cars they own. The results were that 45 percent own GM products, 39 percent own a Ford, 22 percent own something from Chrysler, and 15 percent own a foreign car. Yeah, that's 111 121 percent. Here's the explanation behind the fuzzy math — the poll didn't account for multiple cars in the same household. So it actually tells us almost nothing while falsely suggesting some kind of domestic market dominance. Of course, they could have done something like tally up the percentages of vehicle registrations, but that would almost be too easy. More »
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The pollsters never quit. Anytime we've been metricked to death, they come up with another metric to measure us by. This time around, it's buzzworthiness. And since we could care less about Gen Y (sorry, Ray), and the boomers annoy us to no end (sorry, Farago), we're gonna focus on Generation X, whom, as our friend Lew once succinctly put it, was "raised by rockstars." More »
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