If this is the “Little Dent on the Tank” just how “flawless” should we really expect this to be mechanically?

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As the only person I know who owns a scandalized Volkswagen TDI, I’ve been following the news non-stop and even assessing current market conditions on trade-ins.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, Appian Way, and Paramount Pictures have secured the rights to a book proposal about the Volkswagen dieselgate scandal. The book will be written by Jack Ewing, an economics correspondent for the New York Times who has been following the controversy far more eloquently than I have.

If you’ve read any of my 2-3 other posts, you’d know that I went out and leased a 2014 VW Jetta SportWagen TDi about a year ago in an attempt to merge the practicality of my beloved 4Runner and my I-like-it-but-I-don’t-have-room-for-three-cars Scion FR-S into a single, fun car that according to my salesman- achieves…

Really bummed I’m sitting in my office all day instead of attending the Jalopnik Film Festival a few miles away.

Guys. What is happening. I don’t know if I can fit in an Eggplant Purple?

This past Sunday on route 78 in New Brunswick, NJ, a man identified only as MrLegolize (by his YouTube account) recorded a very near miss by a tractor-trailer caused by some black ice. MrLegolize (ok, let's just call him Troy from here on...) was stopped on I-78 as the black ice had caused another tractor trailer…

The Datsun 510 is at the top of my “Someday When I Have Time/Money: Project Cars Edition” list. It is some how equal parts boxy and beautiful. Quite often, the two are mutually exclusive. I was thinking about this car on the drive into work this morning, and as I searched for an SR20 swapped version to show my friend,…

Not only do I need to worry about squeezing into an itty, bitty spot between two Geländewagens in the LAX parking garage... but now I have to make sure I'm not MURDERED by my parking anxiety?! Well, this extremely convincing ad below arrived in my inbox a few days ago and it sure brought this issue to my attention. I…

I just returned from an incredibly relaxing family vacation in Emerald Isle, NC. Located just south of the Outer Banks and a 20-minute drive from Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base, Emerald Isle is south facing beach where you can see the sun rise AND set over the same ocean at certain times of year- or so I'm told. I…

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I took a bunch of pictures at the local Marinafest - Father's Day Classic Car Show here in Oxnard. Just wanted to share some pics. There was a whole lot more than what's pictured below, but due to the foot traffic I couldn't get all the pictures I wanted. Enjoy!