Little known fact...for a couple of years you could get these with a stick. Not that it is that hard to transplant one (there are parts kits you can get), but having it already there is nice.

Yeah, I’m partial to the 2nd gen myself...mostly because I fit in it. Plus, the fuel injected motor was just sublime. Every bit as chuckable as the first gen, but with a little more to it so you didn’t feel like the wake of a truck would blow you off the road...

THIS is the modern day Suzuki Swift GT...at least it is the closest we can possibly come with today’s regs and laws. They are so tossable in the way that the first of the new MINIs were, but even moreso. Good choice!

Any gen-1 water-cooled VW is cool, but the Scirocco and 2-door Jetta take the crown for me. My brother had an 81 Jetta 2-door, and let’s just say he wasn’t ‘mechanically sympathetic’...frequently I would check the oil and there would be none. Still did 330k miles before he sold it to a friend. Another friend of his…

Methinks that needs a Huyabusa motor...or at least the engine from a 500 Abarth...

Suzuki Swift GT

Well, my car is fairly new...only 28k miles on a 2016 model...but I’m burning a quart of oil every 250 miles. The PCV valve is, apparently, shot, but they wanted 1800 bucks to fix it, so I was just going to do it myself (6 hour job, probably more since I’ve not done it before). That was months ago, and since then I’ve…

I grew up in a restaurant and have been going to fine dining restaurants literally my entire life...we’ve always made reservations, when we can. Too many restaurants won’t take reservations, or will only take them for parties of four or more (when, in reality, it’s quite often more critical for places to be able to…

A life-long New Jerseyan at 51, I can say that many of our roads do suck, and many that COULD be great suck because our fair state has more cops per capita than any other two states combined...however...

Very disappointed that the word ‘syzygy’ did not appear in this article. It’s an awesome word that is so specific that it is almost never used, and here was the perfect opportunity to use it and...nope, not even to point out that the ‘alignment’ visible this month is NOT an example of syzygy.

Huh...shame it wasn’t a ‘Signal 30' error. Even more gory, but far funnier...

“This maneuver takes a bit of coordination and a lot of practice.” It also takes properly placed pedals.

Still think Rock should have looked right at the rest of the Smiths and asked, “He do this shit to you, too?”

Screw binge-watching shows on Netflix, if I’d have had a garage, I’d have spent 2020 (let’s be honest, AND 2021) building a car, totally. Wonder how many 2021 sales were folks who decided to do just that...

It’s the lack of a UPS logo on the car...when UPS sponsors a race team, their fortunes decline, for some reason. Some weird karma thing, maybe. Same thing happened in NASCAR before F1, with Dale Jarrett’s team (I think).

This, like the Hawk they had in the early 2000s, is a bit of a disappointment. Yes, the Hawk was always a lower model than, say, the CB (later the CBRs or VFRs) or others...but in the late 80s, Honda NAILED IT with the Hawk GT (NT650, I believe). It had a single-sided swingarm, extruded aluminum frame, even a nifty…

I always wanted a Geo Metro Convertible as well...and a Suzuki Swift GT (called GTi outside the US) to transplant the motor and suspension from. I thought that would be a really fun summer runabout. Neither are very easy to find these days...

The 1979 Lincoln would actually go a touch below 110mph. In 1989, kid in my highschool had one that was bone stock and low miles, and he wanted to see how fast it would go...with an 85mph speedo he didn’t know. My 1976 Olds Vista Cruiser had a 120mph speedo, so we went out to the recently opened section of rt 78 by…

Yes! My GF makes something very similar to this, and it is great with crab cakes, smoked trout or salmon, or a myriad of dishes. However, she kicks a bit of umami into hers...she adds a dash or two of Maggi to it. There are a couple of other similar seasonings that might work as well, Liquid Aminos, perhaps...maybe a…

The Porsche press site has a very nice write-up of Quick Vic...