This Coffee Brake brings a challenge to readers seeking maximum explosion per monetary input, as the popular saying goes. Our fellow cost-conscious gear head, Rod, writes: “My question is for DTers is: what car can the everyman acquire and maintain that offers most of the 911 experience but without burning your life savings?” With the […]
Rallicross got is start in the UK as a way to bring the best elements of stage rally to the masses without the need to trek into the countryside to catch the action. In the US it was a niche of a niche until 2009 when a rallicross was added to the X-games. Out of […]
The middle of an active Navy base might seem like the worst place to drive a car with 800 horsepower in an angry pack of other like minded lunatics, but that is exactly what has happened every September since 1997. This weekend, Sept 17, 18 is the 2016 Coronado Speed Festival, hosted by the SVRA, […]
DT E-i-C Vince: Let’s face it, you can have the best blog idea in the world, but without regular meaningful content, the idea is worthless. With that in mind, a while back I put out a call for new writers to help fill these pages with interesting, fun, and well priced classic cars — and […]
If you read the Coffee Brake from a few weeks ago, you will likely come to one of two conclusions; the first is that I am an idiot and will probably spend most of my days hitchhiking (why isn’t there an app for that…one part hitching, one part uber. Free rides? A way for psychopaths […]
Video game manufacturers have figured out that not only can they sell you a game at $60 a pop, they can further “monetize” you with paid downloadable content (DLC). The Forza Motorsport franchise on Xbox has been doing this with it’s monthly car packs. A couple of notable sites on the inter-tubes such as Jalopnik […]
Last week’s Coffee Brake (Why I Will (Probably) Never Buy A New Car Again) was a natural extension of the DT Manifesto where I wrote at length about my own rules for driving on the cheap. Of course, the comments were filled with excellent suggestions and some really well thought out advice, but one thing […]
by DT Editor-in-Chief Vince: I guess at the heart of the matter, I might be cheapskate. It isn’t that I’m hoarding my cash with a plan to retire to Fiji when I’m 40. Not at all, I’d miss my wife and kids. My reasons for not wanting to buy a new car go beyond a […]
Coffee Brake: It might officially be Memorial Weekend here in the United States, but around the world it is better known as Motorsports (or is that Motorsport…or Motorsport’s?) Weekend because of the extraordinary variety of corporate sponsored advertisement wheeled competition that can be broadcast into your living room via the internet or television. First up […]
The 4th annual Carroll Shelby Tribute & Car Show 2016 is at the old Shelby International HQ in Gardena, CA this Saturday May 21st from 9AM to 3PM. I’ve been to this event in the past and it is a real gem of a car show. All things Shelby from pristine Cobra convertibles to Omni […]