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Weekend Edition: Giving Up the Ghost / Mongrel Meets His Maker
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The new year is off to a good start. My little Volkswagen Polo has become a running, driveable car instead of a 60 euro paperweight, and with the newfound will to sort out all the loose ends, I’ve now sold my Ford Sierra that has hung around my neck. It’s another tale of a project…
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Weekend Edition: The Mk3.5 Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet
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Much like the Ford P100 pickup truck seen in the earlier Weekend Edition post, the Mk3.5 Golf Cabriolet is something wearing the face of something else. The hardware and the hard points, along with the rest of the car from the A-pillars backwards, mean that you’re still getting the same Golf that debuted in 1993,…
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Weekend Edition: On the Ford P100 "Euromaster"
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Some of the things I dislike on my Ford Sierra are the trucklike handling, slow steering, long-throw gearshift and unrefined engine, along with the utilitarian controls. These are ill-fitted on a passenger car such as the humble Sierra of yours truly, but on a truck they fit the picture, as expected. What, then, a more…
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Weekend Edition: On the Chrysler Neon
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It’s not only the Lumina and Cavalier I’ve had on my mind recently. Unlike the Cavalier, the Chrysler Neon was sold here officially, and as a result the low end of the Finnish used car market is plentiful, if not flooded with cheap Neons. They are worth nothing here, which means you can pick up…
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Weekend Edition: Risky Business – 1982 Porsche 928 for sale
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Sometimes you come upon a bad idea so obvious it’s visible from space. Last night, out on the town with the Peugeot, I did a double take not entirely dissimilar to the scene in Christine where Arnie first sees the decrepit Fury hulk. Parked across the street from a used car dealer, there was an…
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Weekend Edition: On 1997 Chevrolets
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For the past weeks, I’ve been scratching an itch that doesn’t go away until I get to experience something. For the life of me, I can’t wrap my head around why I would really like to drive a Chevrolet Cavalier or a Lumina for the coming winter, to get behind those somewhat horribly shaped steering…
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Weekend Edition: 1981 Opel Tech-1 Concept
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The 1981 Tech-1 concept, displayed at the IAA, dictated how Opel’s design direction would look like in the 1980s. It’s not difficult to see the 1986 Omega saloon in the Tech-1, and there are hints of other future models in it. If the GT2 concept was aerodynamic, the Tech-1 was even more so: a drag coefficient…
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Weekend Edition: 1975 Opel GT2 Concept
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Opel’s 1975 GT-2 concept was a very sleek affair. Displayed at the Frankfurt IAA auto show, the GT2 was designed to be as aerodynamic as possible, and it showed what the possible successor for the Opel GT could have looked like, had one been produced. Based on the contemporary Manta and Ascona, and powered by…
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Weekend Edition: 1982 Opel Corsa Spider Concept
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How would a weekend edition garnished with forgotten 1970s and 1980s Opel concept cars sound to you? I’m a sucker to all such things, concocted by taking elements of production cars and detailing them to look otherworldly and innovative. One such thing was Opel’s Corsa Spider concept from the 1982 Geneva Auto Show. You couldn’t…
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Weekend Edition Last Call: On Promotional Material Yellow
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Thinking back on the cars posted, dissected and discussed this weekend, it dawned on me that perhaps flat-out cynicism isn’t always the best way to treat a car sprayed in a radiant shade of yellow. Some time in the past, maybe in a simpler time like the 1970s, a yellow served the car the best,…
