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Leap of Faith: The Stormtrooper 4Runner Canadian Retrieval Mission
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Sometimes you do crazy things when the juice looks like it will be worth the squeeze. Six months ago my best friend and I drove to the Great White North to buy a twelve-year-old Toyota. It was one of our best adventures yet. This is the story. Off-roading has been a constant in my life.…
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S197 vs S550: How well does the prior-gen Mustang GT hold up, and how much better is the current model?
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Driving subsequent generations of any particular vehicle is always an interesting experience. You get to experience and feel for yourself the work an automaker did to improve upon the prior model, and at the same time you have a chance to evaluate the more modern example to see if their efforts were successful. I’ve had…
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War, revisited: Camaro SS vs Mustang GT test-drive comparo
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It’s been referred to as war, a heated half-century long battle with roots deeper than those of just about any automotive fight out there. It’s Mustang vs Camaro once again and here it’s not about numbers, but rather a non-professional opinion, the impressions and take-aways of a normal enthusiast after driving the prominent pony-turned-sports cars…
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Friday Fun: Four-by-four, by four
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In last week’s Friday Fun we explored the Forbidden Fruits that taunt our wildest automotive dreams, exploring the parts of our imagination where the cars unavailable to us become accessible at the touch of our fingertips. And since all of my choices were street-oriented, this week we’re going to look at the exact opposite end of…
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Quick Spin: 2014 Nissan 370Z – long in the tooth but surprisingly great
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People talk a lot of shit about the Nissan 370Z. It relies on an antiquated powertrain, doesn’t boast any of the tech that do the current crop of offerings, and it sits on a platform that’s going on a decade old. Not that it ever lit the world on fire when it was new, the…
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Friday Fun: Forbidden Fruit edition
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It’s been a while since we’ve done a Friday Fun. Let’s make it a good one, shall we? Ah, the forbidden fruit. It lingers and teases the mind of every car enthusiast who knows well enough that not all of the best cars in the world make it to their own homeland. But that’s not the…
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Dear automakers: bring back the sports trucks!
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SVT Lightning. Syclone. 454SS. Ram SRT-10. X-Runner. Xtreme. The street-oriented “sports truck,” a factory-modified pickup that could simultaneously pull off practicality and pleasure, is a sorely missed niche vehicle that would be a fun territory for automakers to explore today. Sports trucks were the antithesis to the supercar: they could put a big ‘ol smile…
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Sampling 2004 Pontiac GTO: Is my Australian dream car any good?
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The Pontiac GTO was the unloved bastard child of the muscle car resurgence of the 2000s. You don’t have to be an automotive designer to know the styling pushed the wrong buttons, leaving the LS1 engine to write checks the Holden-derived body couldn’t cash. That didn’t stop me from wanting one though. For reasons I’ll…
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Used Car Review: 1995 Land Rover Discovery V8 5-speed
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This morning we revealed that of the more than 120 cars that Hooniverse writers have owned, a Land Rover Discovery wasn’t one. While we can’t rectify that by just randomly buying one, Ross did take a quick spin in one. -KK There’s something inherently charming about a two-decade-old big British four-by-four with a V8 and a…
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This is how the Borla S-Type Exhaust sounds on the Subaru WRX
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There’s a lot to love about the current generation of Subaru WRX. It’s quick, practical, gets decent gas mileage, handles quite well, and is easy to live with every day. But even the best of cars have downfalls, and for the FA-powered engine that powers today’s WRX that downfall comes with how the car sounds. It’s…
