This next feature comes as words and a tip from Scott T: OK, so our first contender is this solid roofed rabbit that someone has mounted a 1.8t motor into and started wiring it up and got far enough to try turning the key and getting no joy. Pictures show it partially assembled, the most […]
Volkswagen went a bit off the rails with their B5.5 generation Passat. For some reason (dreams of unfulfilled world domination, perhaps?) the Germans decided that they wouldn’t split the market with different models (like everybody else in the car world) and instead offered 1.8T powered Passats starting in the low $20k range, Buick-esque mid range […]
This next car comes as a seller submission from Chris who writes: if you decide that you must berate, belittle or badger me, i would ask that you please choose badger as i cant even remember the last time i had a good badgering. Find this 2003 Audi A4 Avant with 1.8T and slushbox tiptronic […]
A look at DT’s own cars, past and present… Not actually DT cars…but who doesn’t like E30s and E34s? Continuing our 3rd Birthday Celebration from Friday, we turn the focus inward for a minute to reflect on our own cars and experiences with them. In no particular or discernible order, let’s get to it! 1984 […]
Time to switch gears and offer something for our celebration of Syncro de Mayo with an Audi badge on it — this time from the VW group PQ34 platform. The first generation Audi TT was designed by J Mays and Freeman Thomas and features a modern take on the Bauhaus school of design. The […]
Kicking our Syncro de Mayo party up a notch, we’ve got this next 4Motion equipped late model, the perfect low buck daily driver for a cheapskate. It might not impress the neighbors like buying a new M5, but it’ll comfortably seat 5 adults, return decent fuel economy, and it has a 5-speed gearbox putting down […]
Audi never built that many of the Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Avant, so finding one in good shape for a decent price is unusual, so I didn’t expect to see another so soon after the example posted here in Dec of 2014. The C3 body style Audi 200 was built starting in 1982, but it […]
In 2008 Volkswagen introduced a reskinned 4-door fastback version of their high volume mid sized Passat family sedan. It was called the CC, and I haven’t the foggiest what CC means, but I can say that it doesn’t mean Crappy Car. On the used market the CC offers a surprisingly Audi-like driving experience for Kia-esq […]
Launched in 1984, AMC’s XJ generation Jeep Cherokee set the standard for a new era of compact sport utility vehicles (SUVs). Other manufacturers raced to copy the fast selling unibody off-roader and only caught up when Chrysler dropped the ball on continuous improvement. It may have been whoa in 1984, but by Y2k it was […]
Imagine that you are a pre-med straight A student at a major university and you aren’t doing so well in your organic chemistry class. You will certainly pass, but probably get a B+ instead of another A and the deadline to drop is tomorrow. You decide to buckle down and try to ace the final […]