Discovery Channel is set to celebrate its 31st annual Shark Week later this month. I don’t really need a better excuse than that to post one of the most bizarrely awesome Porsche production cars of all time, so here’s a 928. As the inimitable Tracy Jordan once said, “Live every week like it’s Shark Week.”
Anything shaped like an old Porsche is bound to grab my attention, but when it’s powered by electricity I’m cutting…
That, as you may or may not know, is a callback to the Defenders and off-roaders of yesteryear.
Yeah, now that I don’t have it anymore (fell as collateral damage when the car parked next to it burned) I really recall all the shiploads of fun I had with my beloved Puma 1.7 ; the handling was incredibly playful without being twitchy or dangerous, and the motor energetic and rev-happy without catapulting you in…
I remember when these came out and wished we got them here in the US—they looked like a blast and the reviews all said so. Test drove a Mercury Cougar hoping that it would sort of be a larger Puma, but that was just meh.
“Rifleman’s Creed,” which was created in 1942 by Marine Brigadier General William H. Rupertus, the then-Commanding General of Marine Corps Base San Diego, after he (Rupertus) had decided that his men must be made to understand, “...that the only weapon which stands between them and Death is the rifle...they must…
Well, mine is massaged. It’s a 1987 Peugeot 205 CTi. It could easily hit 88 mph with the stock (1.6L NA) drive train as it weighs well below a ton. Top speed, 200 kmh or so? That’s 120-130 in legacy units? But currently there’s a 2.0L turbo engine in there from a mid 90s Lancia. The numbers aren’t overly impressive…
I could tow a classic Fiat 500 behind my subcompact 1987 convertible and still hit 88 mph with ease.
I had a French Sergeant named Cedric who worked for me in Sarajevo who took pictures of these as “Art”. We would stop at places in Bosnia and he would break out the medium format film camera and go to town. I would stand at the side of the road and say watch out for mines.
Top trivia: The Dutch army bought about 2,000 Mungas to replace their Jeeps. In the event they found the Mungas unsatisfactory and retired them, replacing them with their old Jeeps which had been in storage. They kept using the Jeeps for (presumably very light) duty for the next twenty years before replacing them…
I’ve recently become obsessed with the DKW Munga, the little 980cc four-wheel drive off-road machine that was the grandfather of the legendary Audi Quattro rally car. The Munga was also the basis for the equally-as-cool VW Iltis military SUV.
Last week, I spotted this Munga for sale in Germany, and now I can’t stop…
This was a nod to Rolls and Bentley describing engine power as “adequate” years ago. They’re more forthcoming with it now.
Before the Camargue was built the majority of its design was used for a coachbuilt one-off Mercedes-Benz W109 6.3 Coupe.
Yes, it fit with Corniche, named after the cliff roads around Monaco.
As you rightly presume, it is named after that bit of France, one day I will have another one, and a Fiat 130 coupe, just so as to photograph them together
How the heck do you pronounce, “Carmargue”? Looking at it, maybe similar to the sound a cat makes coughing up a hairball?
Listen: this is very important. Do not drive a Honda Beat, ever, because it will ruin you for other cars and you…
In order to make profit they have to think in the short term, in order to maintain “the brand’s” credibility and image they need to think long term.
The Range Rover’s designer expressed regret that its popularity expanded much beyond that niche market, too, regarding it as an absurd choice for those who primarily drive in the city (though I’d imagine that was the only way they could sell enough of the things at a competitive price to keep them on the market).
