Ah, that’s not gone well for the Volkswagen. I’ll admit, I could totally see myself in the Cabrio, top-down, bouncing along my merry little way. However, old Toyotas rarely seem to die from anything that isn’t related to rust or suddenly arriving at a standstill, so the Paseo is likely the better daily driver. Anyway, enough with the reasonable cars, let’s get a bit more daring. 2009 Saab 9-3 2....
Interesting. I figured the BMW would win, but I didn’t expect it to be quite that lopsided. But then, rust is scary. Now, before we get started today, I want to give you all a peek under the hood of the inner workings of Shitbox Showdown, and share with you something frustrating that has happened to me a few times over the last few months, but three times in the past two weeks alone....
Pricing in the UK for the base Eletre starts at £89,500 which actually seems reasonable. Subtract VAT and convert to American dollars, and that ends up in the ballpark of $85,000. Still a lot of money, but nowhere near Mercedes-Benz EQS territory. It’s not slow either, 600 horsepower and zero-to-62 mph in 4.5 seconds should make for a reasonably rapid base model. Oh, and it includes tons of kit, such as a 1,380-watt stereo, air suspension, four-zone climate control, 12-way electric front seats, and deployable LIDAR....
The CX was perhaps the height of Citroën’s spaceship-iness, being introduced in 1974 as a replacement for the iconic DS, a car quite spaceshippy in its own right. The CX was the last Citroën designed and built before their bankruptcy and merger/takeover with Peugeot in 1976, and as a result the CX retains all of the strange, wonderful pure Citroën DNA from cars like the DS: hydropneumatic suspension, dramatically streamlined bodies that were like cybernetic speed-tortoises, odd but glamorous control decisions, sofa-on-a-lake-of-pudding-like comfort goals, the whole baguette....
[Full disclosure: Genesis Canada let me borrow this GV60 Performance for a whole week so long as I returned it brimming with charge and wrote a review of it.] What Makes It Tick? As with the blockbuster Hyundai Ioniq 5, the Genesis GV60 rides on Hyundai’s E-GMP platform, a dedicated architecture for electric vehicles that looks very different underneath than most gasoline-powered cars. Because there’s no need to package a combustion engine between the strut towers, the front frame rails are quite far inboard, maximizing tire clearance to enhance turning radius....
I still remember the first time that I saw this thing. I was in high school in 2010 and back then, pretty much all of my time on the internet was spent looking at cars. My favorite sites were places like America’s Smart forum, the old lighting site, and eventually, I’d become a part of the awesome Opposite-Lock community. I can’t quite place my finger on when or where, but I remember seeing a picture of a baffling camper shared....
Welcome to The Morning Dump, bite-sized stories corralled into a single article for your morning perusal. If your morning coffee’s working a little too well, pull up a throne and have a gander at the best of the rest of yesterday. Our Cars Are Getting Old As Hell Much to the surprise of absolutely nobody, the average age of a car in America has trickled slightly upward over last year’s figures....
The 2023 Florida RV SuperShow isn’t just for camper manufacturers to show off the best that they have, but also for suppliers to display their latest tech. Many of the suppliers in the event’s two stadiums offer stuff like e-bikes, wooden plaques, and massage chairs that look like adult-size baby car seats. Some have more practical stuff like solar panels and water purifiers. One person is even selling lipstick made to match your RV’s paint job....
Back in the 1990s, a small company acquired all manner of new old stock bits for DMC DeLorean cars, subsequently finding out that certain DMC trademarks had expired. It swooped in, re-registered those trademarks for its own use, and became the DeLorean Motor Company. [Ed note: Fun fact, the company that they acquired it from was called Consolidated International, aka Big Lots, who themselves bought the stuff from the bankrupt DeLorean Motor Company – MH] Fast forwards two decades, and the new DeLorean Motor Company unveiled a car called the Alpha 5, a four-seat gullwing grand touring EV....
You’ve probably figured out what it is already: a radio! If I recall other Celicas of the era, the radio would have been fitted into the (was it double-DIN in 1980? No, looks like that standard, also called ISO 7736, didn’t get standardized until 1984) hole in that little cubby thing behind the shifter. If you were too cheap for a radio, you just got that little cubby, perfect for storing cassette tapes that you could not play in the radio you didn’t have!...
Back in 2021–I know, it feels like a decade ago–Audi announced the end of the Audi R8 as we know it. First gracing the world in 2006 for the 2007 model year, the German supercar is a mix of futuristic touches while also managing to stay pretty conservative. It’s a car that looks like it could have been built in 2002 or 2022, especially the first-generation. The R8 launched with a 4....
What do you think about the Chevy Tracker? How good will it be off-road? I’ve been anxiously waiting months to find that out, because I suspect that it may be the best off-road bargain in America. It’s body-on-frame, it’s got skid-plates, it’s got low-range, it’s got a manual transmission and great gearing in the differentials — it has what it takes. I am a little concerned about geometry, as the bottoms of the bumpers and the rocker panels hang a bit low, but they’re not bad....
Last week I found myself behind the wheels of a trio of cars that relatively few people will ever get to touch, let alone drive. I had no idea what to expect when I buckled myself into Acura’s triplet of NSX, but what I got was an unforgettable experience that even changed how I see speed. I first drove the earliest known Acura NSX in America, and it was a car that didn’t just put a smile on my face, but was a relentless assault on my senses....
This is a Porsche 911 “Signature” from UK-based EV conversion firm Everrati, which is a fancy way of saying it’s a 964-generation 911 widebody given a very serious gasoline-free upgrade. Think something along the lines of Icon, or maybe even Singer, but in this case, it’s all batteries, all the time. And this particular “Mexico Blue” model is notable because it’s Everrati’s first U.S.-spec 911, designed to meet what the company calls “surging demand” in its cars....
Huh. Well, you’re wrong, of course. But then, I already have a British sports car, and wouldn’t mind a personal luxury coupe to commute in. But you’re still wrong; the answer is never TR7. Maybe TR8 is sometimes the answer. You know what’s strange? I’ve owned 32 cars, and regularly driven maybe 20 others owned by significant others, and not one of them has ever been a proper station wagon....
Stellantis has come right out and said that the Avenger is too small for the American market, and then explained this further with a silly word (emphasis mine): Rightsized. Hmm. Goofy marketing words or not, Stellantis isn’t wrong, because the Avenger is a size of vehicle that makes a ton of sense for Europe, where vehicles of this size class are sold by the metric bushel. The size also makes sense for Japan and South Korea, where the Avenger will be sold as well....
First, some bad news. That glorious mustard color seen on the global model won’t make it to America for 2023. It’s a shame, it would save taxi companies the cost of a respray at the very minimum. Still, there’s plenty exciting about the new Prius that a lack of yellow paint will seem quite minor. Since the Prius has always been about fuel economy, fans will love to learn that the new car should be capable of 57 mpg combined, a strong figure for a series parallel hybrid....
Now, Level 2 chargers aren’t exactly the handiest things on the world when you’re on the road. They’re great for overnight charging, or if you’re spending a few hours at a location, or if you just need a few miles of range to make it to a fast charger, but they won’t do for a quick and proper recharge. However, there are more than 3,000 of these Level 2 Tesla chargers showing on Tesla’s map, destinations like hotels may have Tesla-specific Level 2 charging, and for around $150 to $250, just about any PHEV or EV can use them....
Hills. San Francisco has all of them. The location of Frank Bullitt’s apartment is 1155 Taylor Street, smack in the middle of the Nob (heh) Hill district — one of the hilliest parts of a very hilly city. The Mustang wheezed its way up and down them for a few days, alternately extending my spine and then smashing it to powder. If Bullitt were remade now [gives Spielberg the side eye], what you’d want would be a Mustang with an abundance of both power and suspension travel....
Of course, some of us lack the scratch necessary to participate so let’s assume, as a thought exercise, that your Aunt Milty handed you $300,000 on the condition that you had to spend it at Pebble Beach. You see, your Aunt Milty was a helluva gal, but she earned all that money tending to her haberdashery in Mamaroneck and never got to enjoy it. She doesn’t want you to make the same mistake....
