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THESE GUYS!!! HOLY SHIT!!! THIS IS WHAT TGUSA SHOULD’VE BEEN!!!

Good luck with that thing. I've thankfully never owned a VW product (outside of an air-cooled dune buggy), but I have yet to see a recent VW/Audi ownership experience end well. Chronic electrical problems. Catastrophic transmission problems. Catastrophic engine problems. Lying dealers. Inept service techs. I honestly

The fastest/scariest boat I’ve ever been on was an old aluminum flat-bottom fishing boat (dinghy?) that my friend owned. He actually traded a crappy Sony stereo amp for it, but that’s not the story here. See, it came with a shitty little 7.5 hp outboard, which was fine for tooling around the lake sedately.

Man... between this, the State Fair, and the Rangers ballpark, DFW has some ridiculously over-the-top awesome concession food. My god, last time I went to a Rangers game, I sat downwind of the place making garlic-parmesan fries. I got up to the go to the bathroom, and returned with said fries, plus a giant beer, and a

CarFax info cannot be trusted. I've seen this crap before. I don't how they go about acquiring their "data" but I assume it's a combination of public records and info that they have to purchase from insurance companies. You can go back and compare reports where this has happened and see common dates where info just

Is this the factory?

I dunno. Whenever I eat a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches, I get Cheese Beard and have a lot of naps...

Wait. What? What did I just watch twice? I need to break this down further...

I’ve always wanted one of these ridiculous things. Hell, I had the Tamiya RC car back in the day. About $5K sounds reasonable for a clean, rust-free example with low miles. The last one I looked at was a doo-doo brown pile of rust with 150K miles. They were asking $3800, and I’m not gonna lie... I thought about it

Don't buy a car with a giant hole in the roof. My first project was a 1981 RX-7 that had a Pep Boys sunroof at some point - the glass was gone long before I got the thing. I got clever and had a piece of Lexan cut to fit in the hole, then just glued it in with silicone. And it was perfect until the first time I drove

Huh... I didn't realize the 3.2 V6 in the TT was a VR6.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't into cars. My dad was/is a car nut, so he got me started early with Hot Wheels and slot cars. Then it morphed into "dad and lad" stuff like a LaTrax (predecessor to Traxxas) R/C Corvette when I was in 1st or 2nd grade. Jesus, I remember sitting in his lap, steering the car down

"Drive" was HANDS-DOWN the worst movie I've seen in the last five years. It wasn't even enjoyably bad. It was just I-want-to-throw-a-shoe-at-the-TV bad. Just... just... terrible.

My (mostly) foolproof trick for nasty-ass carpet is to take it out, run it down to the car wash and spray it with hot, soapy, high pressure. Rinse, repeat, then set it out in the sunny driveway to dry for a day. It pretty much has to be summer. And it helps to have a truck (although I have laid the soaking wet carpet

I like what they're doing with the Soccer Mom crossovers, and the MKZ is still kind of a looker, but I get the sense that they're trying to take down Big Luxury with a fleet of Buicks. Is Lincoln going to be the new Mercury? I'd really like to see them get down on the mat with Cadillac and bring back something like

Love this old brick! There's an old 242 coupe near me with a similar stance and the same mesh wheels. It's just plain badass looking...

Look, I don't condone this kind of crazy, but the generally shitty behavior of the NYPD (and their complete lack of accountability) might have pushed some of these batshit crazies to the forefront. If I lived up there, I'd do everything I could to avoid any kind of contact with the good ol' NYPD. In fact, I'd probably

Holy shit that looks TERRIBLE!!! It's just as awful as the current "Camaro" - which is to say, pretty fucking awful. Where the Mustang has happily evolved into a kickass-looking modern musclecar, the Camaro is still clinging to some really bad retro styling cues. At least they could've harked back to the last truly

Welp, it looks just about as bland as shitty as the current Camaro...

Screw Greenpeace. Screw PETA. Screw MADD. Screw every other "cause" that's nothing but a thinly-veiled marketing money machine.