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Mondern Art Monday: A Day at the Museum
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Saturday morning dawned bright and cool in Salt Lake City. To the west, the Bonneville Salt Flats sat quiet and empty, waiting for the focus of Hoons to turn its way come September. But for now, car enthusiasts’ focus lay squarely on the Utah Museum of Fine Art on the campus of the University of…
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(Space) Wagon Wednesday – Design Review: 2007 Kia Rondo
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Whither the tall wagon, space wagon, or whatever your chosen moniker is – the key point being that these supremely useful, if nerdy-looking vehicles are all but extinct. The Mistsubishi Expo/Colt/Vista/etc./etc. variants all died away in the early 90s. Other casualties included the Nissan Stanza and the Honda Civic Wagovan. Killed off by the ever…
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Truck Thursday: Walking Dead Edition: Two Jeeps and a Pinzgauer
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Perhaps due to the return of actual zombies in the recent The Walking Dead season finale, or 2012 jitters, it appears that some residents of Salt Lake City have taken the opportunity to outfit themselves with an appropriate escape vehicle. While on a jaunt through the Avenues neighborhood near downtown, I spotted a number of…
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Fastback Friday: The Golden Age of Hatchbacks
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Over at Hatchtopia, I’ve ruminated a number of times on an idea that I have – that there used to be a far greater selection of hatchback vehicles than there are today. I don’t have any numerical evidence to back that theory, but I know it to be true. It used to be that a…
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Fastback Friday: Hatchback Camping
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In the Pantheon of bad automotive ideas, the one that has the most floorspace must certainly be the Pontiac Aztek. Justifiably derided for its appearance, the Aztek regularly appears on page-count-multiplying Top 10, 50 and 100 lists in all corners of the internet. However, if you can get over the looks of the Aztek, you’ll…
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Wagon Wednesday: Dash to Your Nearest Computer and Buy This!
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So I don’t have to. I’ll admit up front – I’ve been a Volkswagen fanboi since long before some idiot decided boy should be intentionally spelled incorrectly in this context. The year was 1979 and my parents had just purchased a new Rabbit – Alpine White over baby blue (vinyl of course). There were a…
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The Transformance of a Dodge Caliber
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Many basic and boring cars throughout history have been the lucky recipients of a new engine, improved suspension and brakes. The resulting increase in performance usually results in a pretty big transformation. A transformance, if you will. Trans-form-ance (verb) 1. the act of transformation by an infusion of performance see also Performation Everyone probably has…
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Why do they all have to be Automatics?
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Please welcome the second of a few new contributors, Ray Lindenburg. Ray comes to us from his own website, hatchtopia.com, which is, surprisingly, about hatchbacks. Please make Ray feel equally welcome and awkward at the same time, as you did Scott. -KK I saw my high school dream car on eBay last night. It was exactly as I…
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Two-Wheel Tuesday – Design Review: Vespa GT200
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You may have heard of them – scooters. Seen them in the local grocery store or big box… NO. What you’re thinking of is a mobility scooter. Nor is a scooter a moped or a child’s toy. How many times DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN… Sorry. I’m not bitter. Just perturbed. I’ve been roundly…
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Is It So Bad To Grow Up?
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Like many young adults, I had rock-n-roll dreams. Dreams that involved touring the country while playing loud, obnoxious music that my parents wouldn’t like. Meeting girls, sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, the whole cliche. But the fact was that I had no musical talent. No desire to practice either, really. And to be perfectly honest, I hadn’t…
