Damn...still no re-release of the Nike Challenge Court mid-tops. Bummer. And my brand-new-in-box ‘85 AJs are probably worth 1/10th what they were before this. Oh well.
Damn...still no re-release of the Nike Challenge Court mid-tops. Bummer. And my brand-new-in-box ‘85 AJs are…
The X-cars might have been ok, but the hype surrounding them (‘bring the fight to the Japanese cars’, etc.) was such that it had to be perfect to even be seen as mediocre...and they were far from perfect. They did manage to prove that GM needed to really change the way they did things if they were going to survive,…
I had a 2004 MINI Cooper S that I absolutely adored...it had more than enough space for my 6'3" frame and I never have passengers so the size was fine. But, as others have said, it was impractical because you couldn’t count on it. In the 26 months I owned it, it was back at the dealer 18 times, not counting scheduled m…
I got a bunch of those and sent them to friends...no signature or return address info. They still knew it was me, perhaps because a few years back I would randomly call their voicemails and leave a soundclip from Family Guy...
JD McPherson would disagree with you...
I got some great stuff..books and CDs, and a DragonFly Cobalt DAC...but the best thing I got was a JHM Motorsports Solid Short Shifter for my B8.5 Audi S5...now I just need a warmish day to install it with the solid stainless shift knob I already had!
I had an ‘86 Golf that was the ‘stripper’ model, with round headlights instead of the big, flush-mounted rectangular ones...the nose of this looks JUST like it. Weird.
Here in NJ people are driving even more recklessly than normal...and it seems like the cops are still only concentrating on speeders, but whatever. My dad came up with a theory that they are all in one of three camps: those who haven’t caught covid so think they are invincible, those who’ve already HAD covid and think…
Corinthian Leatherface has a pretty good take on one possibility...I have another. They purchased the car, on one of their first drives they scared the bejeezus out of themselves, then put it away...perhaps after mentioning to someone they were going to bring it back to the dealer or try to sell it and they were…
The exterior styling is truly wonderful...the interior seems fine except the horrid dashboard and silly screen. The thing I keep coming back to, though, is...would I buy an electric vehicle made by Alfa? Huh. Maaaaybe? I mean, their build quality is...I think ‘not great’ is about as nice as you can be. I just have…
One thing you all need to consider here is geographic location...yes, in a lease the depreciation is factored in. But in many areas it is totally factored into the value on a purchased vehicle as well...in NJ, for example, the dealers don’t use the Kelly Blue Book for trade-in valuation...they use the Screw-You GALVES…
Everyone’s situation is a little different, of course. I happen to like pricier cars, and was buying off-lease ‘certified’ preowned...then the dealer happened to have the exact car I wanted brand new. So I leased it with the plan to purchase at the end. My circumstances changed and I wound up driving a hell of a lot…
What’s the over/under on how many races it’ll be before he runs Max off the track? Or vice-versa, now that I think about it...
Chevy Chevette.
Hope they checked the trunks for bodies...I mean, this sounds like it’s taken right from a Law & Order plotline...
Honestly, I love my 2016 Audi S5 manual, but if I could have any car, just one single car for all time, it would be either a 2008 Audi RS4 Cabriolet (or a Bentley GTC as I’m getting older!). It’s ludicrously fast, comfortable, all-weather capable, has space for passengers (and luggage, if necessary), is a convertible,…
I was going to recommend an 80s water-cooled VW, but the prices of decent ones have just skyrocketed lately. But there are few better fairly modern cars to learn to wrench on.
That unholy shriek is...wow. This was just ONE car, plus it was through the TV. Nothing prepares you for an entire grid of these things. I was at Indy in 2000 and it was astounding. The weird thing was how different the McLarens sounded from the others...their banshee wail had a low note in it that made them sound…
No doubt about it, he was monster...especially in the wet. He had such innate ‘feel’ of the car, which leads me to believe he might have been good in earlier eras as well. But he also would never have gotten into a W196 and driven it at 100%, because he had knowledge of how thoroughly unsafe a machine it was. Stirling…
Hell is other drivers.
