The Wasp

$200K? Give me a 3D printer and a slow afternoon and you’ll be up and going for $39.95.

$200K? Give me a 3D printer and a slow afternoon and you’ll be up and going for $39.95.

Gads, those wheels. The thing would present better if parked on cinder blocks.

Rampage movie? Based on the video game from the 80's?

Harmonicas. Enough said.

I’m most impressed with the Golf making max torque at 1,800 rpm. That’s pretty impressive for a turbo 4, and most likely what I would notice if I was comparing these in day to day driving. Sure the Si has the highest top speed, but where the hell would I be able to take advantage of that? Most tracks don’t even…

“You can read my full First Drive test of the car later today[.]”

Hate the description, but $60K for a fairly low-mileage S54 MC is about market price now. I’ve seen a few sell for even more. If I had $60K burning a hole in my pocket I could think of worse places to park it.

Sort of. The Japanese sailors referred to it as the Hotel Yamato as it spent the majority of its time out of harm’s way. Its fate was to be used in a naval kamikaze attack, rather than to be sunk in port.

While the Tirpitz was a bit of a white elephant, it did serve to tie up a tremendous amount of attention, and resources, of England. The simple threat that the Tirpitz posed to shipping in the north Atlantic (and to the Soviet Union, in particular) did take pressure off of other segments of the Kreigsmarine.

Mercedes 190E. I always (even in the 80's) thought they were Mercedes’ take on a Ford Escort so they never appealed o me. Fast forward to ‘01 and my ‘89 Civic Si is crushed when an uninsured drunk driver crams it under an SUV I’m parked behind. Car-less, and pretty much penniless, I start asking around and a friend’s…

Yep, came here to post this. If the driver claimed he had hit a moose I’d say BS, but I don’t know about deer impact. I grew up in Maine and saw the results of more than one car vs. moose encounter. In those encounters the moose gets their legs taken out and the body of the moose crashes into, onto and through the…

I’m kinda’ smitten by the Kei cars that are finally showing up on these shores. Honda Beats and Suzuki Cappuccinos are starting to pop-up regularly state-side, but be prepared to travel to get it. I seldom see them priced over $10K.

I was thinking Chevy Impala Sam & Dean edition

I’ve lived in Maine, NH, Ohio (Cleveland), NY (Manhattan and White Plains), and now in MA. You did not experience an anomaly - - there’s absolutely a higher level of senseless aggression here than in any place else I’ve lived. By senseless, I mean people here just do things because they can, not because they need to…

Detroit Iron or you’ll wish you had. How about something like an ‘08 GTO?

the single thing i did that made the biggest difference on my Miata was installing a Hard Dog double diagonal rollbar. The turbo, etc. worked as expected, but it had never ending teething problems. Suspension modifications were great and worked as I expected them to. But that rollbar fixed the flex issues in the…

“smoke stacks of doom”

i know exactly where that is. I happens all the time here and I am so glad to see someone get busted for this.