Aw damn! I love reading your stories of your own insanity but this is one where I could have helped! I live in frickin Stanwood and I have entirely furnished, 1,100 square foot unoccupied two bedroom apartment in my basement complete with kitchen, 75 inch TV, Xbox One, and a friendly dipshit dog where you could have…

Driving a technically illegal vehicle on the street is like a car guy rite of passage. 

Time for the big motor swap.

RZ 350s should be yellow and black dammit!

This is really well executed. Now bring back the 2-smokes!

There’s THIS....and then there’s the rest of Jalopnik. Hard to believe this is on the same site. Thanks for the awesome posts Mr. Tracy. One of the only reasons I keep coming back.

Good luck with the fix; you seem painfully overqualified to get it done.

8th gen Civic Si. Decently quick, perfect shifter, 8,000 rpm, neutral to the very ragged edge in the corners, and will go 300,000 miles without breaking a sweat. But it’s not a turbocharged “numbers car” so it gets little love.

The Subaru RX. Not WRX, but the WRX’s grandfather.

Fiat X-1/9: Cheap to run, easy to maintain, parts shared with more lowly 128, body structure designed to a higher crush standard than the Spyder’s, FUN to drive, huge frunk and useful trunk, targa top and AC that worked. Save all your Fix It Again Tony jokes because I daily drove it for two years. Fixed a bad…

The Mitsubishi Starion / Chrysler Conquest, especially the later wide-body models. There were plenty of Japanese 3door hatches back in the 80s but the Supra, Rx-7, and 300ZX got all the notoriety. Mitz turned that around a little bit in the 90s with the 3G/DSMs but the 80s Starions were completely overlooked, despite…

Honda Prelude was a good car that was completely overshadowed by the Civic and Integra.

Lest we forget the SC/360

That ain’t a Hornet. This is a Hornet:

In this case “group b” is the unborn because Italy has a national debt of $3.1 Trillion dollars and growing. Less than 10 years ago Italy was having a national debt crisis. But maybe the Germans will bail them out like they did the Greeks. I fear the USA is on deck for a debt crisis in the next ~20yrs. 

Who better to represent automotive culture than someone who lives in a city where nobody drives?

It’s really strange to me how people equate size with value. Of course, it’s the same thing with “super-sizing” a fast food meal — it’s all about total profit margin for a slightly larger product.

If VW is doing so well, can they bring us back the golf and sportwagen? Maybe the id3? And give those cars physical climate controls? You know, all these things they are doing supposedly because they can’t afford to?

“Sure, you can joke that all of the big cruisers are too heavy, too expensive, and too old-fashioned, aimed at a dying market”

Well, they don’t like them, anymore.