julkinen
Antti Kautonen
julkinen
Automotive writer based in Finland. Never paid more than two grand for a car. Currently drives a manual turbodiesel wagon.

I finished the book during a ferry ride on a long road trip, around the time of the Deadspin awards. Fast forward to Monday and all I got on Deadspin was bad news about Drew. I really couldn’t stop thinking about the book for two weeks. Read more

You can slide the ashtray around.

I do the usual four-five-hour stew out of seared lumps of pork in beer and tomato-based sauce in a glass pot. It’s my hearty go-to cooking, partially based on a Deadspin recipe I read years ago. Read more

“Giving you a clutch pump you’ve never seen before!” Read more

Only the 4x4 had real plastic cladding on the sides. The ribbed stuff on the FWD cars is painted metal because it was cheaper than plastic cladding! Read more

It always sours the mood when a roadtrip turns into nursing a sickly car home. But you have to be aware of noises and smells, no matter if it feels like paranoia. There are just different levels of “It’ll be fine” – most of that is risk assessment. Read more

Erm, do you have an url for those Pandas being offloaded? Read more

Re: optimistic speedo: I’d like to state I’ve gotten my 999cc Panda to 100mph on a downhill section of the German Autobahn. That does have 11 horsepower more. Read more

The E28 M5, ready for its Mission Impossible close-ups.

If you think that’s wild, look at 75% of commenters here writing the car’s name as “Infinity”. Read more