I like the practice of manufacturers resurrecting dead nameplates.... however, often times they bring back a storied name and attach it to a lackluster vehicle (blazer anyone?). As the American manufacturers have all but abandoned sedans and coupes (well, dodge still sells some), the Koreans smelled blood in the water…

Ashamed to admit that i owned a buICK rendezPOO, it did have a tire inflator in the rear of the vehicle in addition to the actual spare tire.  that car was the biggest POS i ever owned.

I had the 3-door with the 5-speed.  can confirm.

How I miss my old ‘96 geo metro - 3 doors, 3 cylinders and 63 horsepower. power nothing. if they made them again, let’s add one more cylinder, and a turbo bigger than the engine itself, add a drive shaft to the back to correct its wrong-wheel-drive condition... other than needing to add some extra airbags and a…

Glade Plug-in by Yugo

baby got an atom bomb.  (players of the original get the reference here)

Okay, so I live in Fort Wayne and last October I went to the Parkview ER because I had symptoms of appendicitis one night. They confirmed it with some labs and a CT scan... I was sent into surgery almost immediately for a very routine endoscopic appendectomy. Was out the door and back home in about 9 hours. While my…

i wouldn’t be too upset if the USA adopted kei car regulations like japan. just think of all the kawaii kei-dozers tooling around town with 63hp under the hood and giant truck nuts hanging out back. the new ford F-1.50 (yes, the decimal point IS intentional there) doesn’t have an optional hello kitty vinyl decal…

So “We Will Always Love You” by The Avalanches didn’t make the list? That seems like a severe oversight. Not having “On The Take” by Love Hustler, while still a pretty heinous sin, is almost forgivable if not for the fact that they are still WAY under everyone’s radar. LH’s song “OMW (2U)“ pretty much seals the deal.

TIL that stoned battery yeeting is apparently now a “Thing™”  just wait until this phenomenon goes viral on all the tik toks, followed by utterly stunned and shocked suburban parents facebooking every media outlet in outrage because they failed to parent their kid well enough despite blessing them with an electric car…

There will be a certain subset of buyers of this model that will have convinced themselves, “THIS IS GOD’S JEEP - I CAN DRIVE TO PORTUGAL BITCHES!!!” and then follow through on that threat while winning a well deserved darwin award in the process.  Also, I wonder how well this handles the “moose test” towards the end…

No drive on snek!

This is not a Porsche, nor is it even a driftable Dajiban... turbo and a stick do not always a great car make.  This is like calling a big mac with an errant tomato slice on it the holy grail of burgers.

So I have that 1ZZ in my ‘06 corolla. Granted, the engine is in the wrong spot in my car, and the wrong wheels are driven by a transmission without the most relevant pedal, but aside from that, it revs high, has 190K miles on it and has had no mechanical issues aside form standard maintenance. For a car that old, the…

I’m seriously starting to think that Boomhauer is the guy that comes up with the vehicle names at VW’s marketing department.  At least he found gainful employment after his TV show was canceled.

Don’t forget about the VW Tayron, Touraeg, Touran to keep the happy company with the Taigun and Tiguan twins. Also, Routan and Touran used the same exact set of lettters like T-twins. This is not their first rodeo of “back bumper alphabet soup”

Where’s the Elgrands and the Alphards/LM’s?  Those are the vans we want.  Odyssey isn’t bad, but I’d really like to see those nissans and ‘yota/lexii twins stateside.  Who wants a dustbuster, when you can have a decepticon?

If you’re an auto manufacturer, and you don’t make the transmissions that you sell in your vehicles, and the vendors who do make them with whom you do business do not have one available, its unlikely that the costs of engineering a new one are favorable. I say this because the cars that us jalops want them on are the…

Am I the only one that always pronounced the Ford C-Max as “Ford Smacks”?

one week to charge up so you can drive 5 miles.  awesome!  keep killing it GM!