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question of the day

What's Your Favorite Van Of All Time?

Though we'll probably never have a "Maximum Van Day," yesterday's hard-living QOTD got us thinking about vans and vanning. Though the idea mostly died out in the 1970's in this country, the spirit of the van has lived on in Japan and in the hearts of anyone that owned a Supervan 2 matchbox car. Whether it's something small like the Mitsubishi Town Box, the gigantic and world-destroying A-Team GMC or Julie Nimoy's Silhouette, vans are rad. More »

11:40 AM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Matt Hardigree
3,182 views, 130 comments

news: racing

Supervan 2 to Get Disembowled, Jalopnik Unhappy

Cripes. We're about to march across the United States, ford the North Atlantic, and roll heads over at Ford Europe. Some numbskull has decided that the stillborn C100 racer chassis underneath the Supervan 2 is somehow more important than the coolest van this side of B.A.'s GMC. As such, the Transit bodyshell will be removed and the vehicle will be restored to its original form for vintage competition. But who gives a flying toss about a Group C car that never turned a wheel in anger? We have a freaking Supervan Matchbox car. We beg of you, Ford, do not do this. Do so, and we will cut you. You've been warned, wrongheaded dummkopfs. You've been warned. – Davey G. Johnson More »

10:30 PM on Wed Oct 25 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
1,709 views, 8 comments

Latest by Drive-thru: perhaps this destruction needs to happen, this may another one of those acts that bring our long denied love of vans to a boil. I will alwyas have issues with the modern "conversion van" driven by a specific deomgraphic... But more »