I’d argue for taking the Mustang II off the list of perennial punching bags, as well. Yes, yes, we get it. It was a slower, smaller, less well-put-together version of America’s first pony car, and it doesn’t live up to the legend established by the highest-performing models of yore — your GT500s, your BOSS’ 302s,…

I’m really, really glad I got my Ram R/T this year — the regular cab trucks are all built and assembled in Mexico, while the four-door models are built here. It’s likely, given the relatively small volume of overall Ram sales made up by regular cab pickups, that they will simply cease to sell those in the U.S, much…

I love the GMC Sierra HD3500 SRW Crew-Cab. Because I had one when I was a kid, it was a hand-me-down from my dad (who jumped ship to Dodge), and I have great memories of it. Mine had a big, loud 454, which wasn’t fast, but made lots of noise. I used to take it “drifting” by kicking the enormous back-end out on gravel…

Hmm, yes, I see, very interesting. And now, I must ask — purely for informative, professional reasons, you see, all above board (ha ha, that’s a little boat pun for you, “above board”) — if one were — again, purely for scientific reasons — interested in, for the sake of argument, a sundeck covered (or, indeed, simply…

I’m afraid I’m not familiar with the term “mid-mounted turbocharger”. Does that indicate that the turbos are mounted in the valley of the V-6 engine, being in the “middle” between the two cylinder heads? Or is there something more exotic happening here?

Huh... This one strikes a note with me. I, too, had a 1991 Saab 9000 Turbo some time ago, and like this seller, I was immensely reluctant to part with it.

Don’t let this ruin your dream. I drove a GMT400 K3500 GMC Sierra for years, and I miss that truck more than any other vehicle I’ve owned. It wasn’t fast, and it didn’t handle super-great (mine being a long-bed, four-door example), but it weathered everything a Montana winter could throw at it for years and never…

I’ve been driving manual transmissions for 15 years now, and I, like most non-track-driving automotive enthusiasts, still practice 3-2 heel-and-toe downshifts on occasional mountain roads. I’ve gotten pretty good at it now, or at least, I like to think so, though I’d never claim to be reliable enough to be considered…

I realize I’m in the minority here, but I don’t actually think an SV650 or Bonnie are very good first bikes, even used, unless a rider is moving to street bikes from a history of riding off-road motorcycles. A brand new rider is better off sticking to something 300ccs or smaller. I know, you’ll outgrow it, but that’s…

Me, too... I went through three different Bullitt helmets at my extremely patient local dealer trying to find the right size/cheek-pad combo for me, and I eventually just had to give up and understand that my weird head isn’t made for cool-people helmets. I thought it would just look so cool when I was riding my old…

Ah, yes, well, that’s the thing... My commute to work is about an hour, one-way, all freeway, and I probably end up putting 500-600 miles a week on my bike. If I lived closer to work, I would consider something more spartan, but if that were the case, I’d have just probably stuck with supersports.

Had one! Rode a 1984 Ninja GPz900R for several years. I ended up selling it recently since parts were becoming extremely hard to find, and it was costing me quite a bit of money to keep up for how much I got to ride it. The Concours is more comfortable and usable for long distance, but nowhere near as nimble.

I don’t know, man, the seat is kind of hard...

So, I was sitting outside of a Chipotle the other day, enjoying my tasty burrito bowl, when two blue-collar dudebros pulled up on a CBR600RR and a GSX-R600. The first thing I noticed was that the Honda wore a sticker, emblazoned proudly across its windshield, of two racing-leather-clad bikers urinating on the GSX-R…

I’d like to know how well this bike would actually perform for a true, first-time rider. I see bikes like the SV650 get recommended to lots of never-been-on-a-bikers, and I think that’s a bit too much for someone with no experience whatsoever. Is it in the Ninja 300/CBR300 beginner bike range, or is it closer to the…

Enthusiast: “I really want a brown, manual-transmission, rear-wheel-drive, two-door station wagon with a built-in roll-cage and crank-windows! I am willing to pay the princely sum of $20,000 for this vehicle!”

Ohhhh, that VFR800, I have been sorely tempted by that. Especially the newest ones, I hear they’ve really cleaned up the VTEC issues that made some of the older ones a love/hate kind of bike. They’re just so pricey! Not that I don’t think they’re actually worth it, but, well, twelve or thirteen grand for an 800cc…

I’m totally a convert, and I never thought I would be. I used to be all about the sportiest of sport bikes, but about two years ago, I did a long-distance ride from Phoenix, AZ to Telluride, CO via New Mexico. About 9 hours non-stop in the saddle each way, and I did this all on a ZX-6R strapped up with soft luggage.…

This is kind of off-topic, but I really wish the VFR1200 had done better! I think it’s a very striking design, a cool, powerful SPORT-tourer, and it’s an excellent showcase of Honda’s design prowess (the fit and finish is second to none). The only thing I think it really fell flat on is absolutely abysmal range.

You know, I used to be a hard-core supersport/sportbike kind of rider, and I’ve recently switched over to sport-touring bikes, which are the Way and the Light. But when I say sport-touring, I don’t mean GS’s and V-Stroms, I mean, like, Concours (Concourses?), FJRs, K- and R-series BMWs, and Sprints or Trophies and…