There are fun tuner cars, exciting tuner cars, ridiculous tuner cars, and cars that manage to be all of above. They exist where insanity meets opportunity. What's your favorite ridiculous tuner car?
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The premise of Dodge's Super Bowl ad was being a man means making sacrifices... so you can drive a Charger. Does your car interfere with your love life?
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Beer-soaked burnouts in the Circle K parking lot while Slayer cranks on the Kraco. Yeah, it's the real American Dream in full effect, but what kind of car fits the headbangin' lifestyle the best?
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My Canadian friends were treating the launch of the Formula One season this week as an actual important sporting event — like the Super Bowl — but few Americans seem to care. Why is Formula One so unpopular here?
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With all the talk of brake problem this and recall that, we figured it was time to talk about cars without problems. What's the most trouble-free car that you've owned? (Answers with the word "Toyota" in them don't count.)
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Yesterday's post on the eye-poppingly hideous Heynsdyk 2500SF prompted an in-house discussion about reskinned cars. Some of us are for them, some against. Nevertheless, we had to wonder — which old car needs to be reskinned?
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Some may not know I worked for Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm. Tomorrow night's a reunion of sorts and I'm driving from NYC to Michigan to attend. Forget high school reunions — what would you drive to your Governor's Office reunion?
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When we're not working we're on Craigslist or eBay looking for the mint DSM in the rough. The hidden deal. We know you are, too. What's your fantasy Craigslist find?
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A pretty good case could be made for the Chevrolet Vega as The Worst Car GM Ever Made. The maddening thing? The Vega could have been a Toyota-killer, just when The General most needed one.
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With the news that Corvettes have finally entered LeMons, the floodgates are likely to open for other semi-exotic hardware. The 'Vette was probably legit, but cheaters have almost certainly won LeMons before. What would you try?
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History tells us that Henry Leland founded both of America's major luxury brands, and there were times in the Seventies when the deVille and Continental were fundamentally identical. CTS and MKZ? Not so much. Who's got the better mousetrap?
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Some cars are born wagons, some achieve wagonhood, and some have bad-ass wagonhood thrust upon them. The Jalop in the street knows that wagons beat sedans nearly every time, but which wagon improved the most over its donor car?
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To mis-paraphrase Henry Ford: The original Corvette came in any performance variant you wanted, as long as it was slow. No longer. There are at least three different "performance" Vettes, none of which really sell worth a damn. Why?
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"On any given weekend, there's more Mazdas on the road-race tracks of America than any other brand of vehicle." So Mr. Dempsey tells us in the oft-repeated Mazda commercial. It sounds good and may be true. But is it relevant?
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Now before you all die from brain bubbles because one of the Greatest Symbols Of The American Way Of Life is a-gittin' blasphemed, take a deep breath and hear me out. Cool as the '64 Goat was, it poisoned GM.
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Cars are complex machines and the great advantage they have over, say, cribbage, is it would take a lifetime to amass every mechanical, cosmetic and driving skill. We are all students. What automotive skill do you most want to learn?
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Conan pulled a fast one on NBC with his Bugatti Veyron Mouse sketch but, of course, you don't need a million dollars to have fun at someone's expense. What's your favorite car prank?
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Rumors of Chrysler merging into Lancia is a sad reminder of where the company is right now. Let's get happy and remember a better time. What's your favorite pre-Fiat Mopar?
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The photos of six generations of 5 Series Bimmers was a sad reminder that not every car maintains greatness through multiple generations. Some do. What's the most consistently awesome car?
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Although normally we wouldn't care about navel-gazing media gossip, the late-night war between Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien brings up an important question on your automotive collecting philosophy: Leno's garage or Conan's SHO?
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Which is more frustrating for the hopeless car geek: a car company that once ruled the universe brought to its knees by decades of bad decisions, or a car company that sold its soul in order to build better appliances?More »
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