Go ahead. Say "wrong-wheel drive" again…
Associating the terms “performance car” and “front-wheel drive” may seem as contradictory as “deep-fried” and “tofu” (surely there’s at least one county fair that has already thought of that). And many of us have had the term “wrong-wheel drive” ingrained in our minds for so long that copping to [...]
El Crewmino? Si!
If you’ve been reading the ol’ ‘Verse for anything more than a week or two, you know that hot rod shows filled with surf music piped over the P.A. system and gaggles of graying, rounding Boomers shuffling around proclaiming, “I used to have one just like that” to their friends/hot daughters kids/spouses/etc. [...]
The button press heard 'round the (crapheap racing) world…
At Casa_de_Science, the beast so ridiculous fearsome other LeMons teams dare not speak its name is roused from its slumber. Sights and (garbled) sounds of this momentous occasion after the jump.
Freude am Floatin'
It wasn’t all that long ago that Americans bought full-size, rear-drive, body on frame passenger cars in numbers large enough to more than justify producing them. However, sales of coupe versions of these leviathans tanked before the bottom fell out of the entire segment. But the market for big sedan-based two-doors still [...]
Tomsk, on March 24th, 2010
The good: The cops won't know what it is. The bad: They'll have no trouble keeping up with you.
Ask the average hoon to name a European full-size (by Continental standards, anyhow) sedan from the waning years of the Malaise Era, and chances are he or she will drop the name of the W126 Mercedes-Benz [...]
Tomsk, on March 19th, 2010
Unlike Chrysler's interpretation, this Sebring is full of win.
Pssst! Hey, you! Yeah, the one sitting at the computer! You like racing that turns right as well as left? How about the days when society dictated that men belonged in the garage tinkering with British sports cars and women belonged in the kitchen? [...]