It doesn’t get much better than this. Manual transmission. Toffee brown paint. Wagon. Diesel. Turbo. The only thing that could make this better is if it wasn’t a VW/Audi group product from the era of questionable reliability, but with the diesel engine (and manual) it might surprise you. Find this 2014 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Wagon […]
When you see a Beetle with a giant engine cover sticking out the back, you have to assume it is covering some made V8 or a turbocharged 4-cylinder engine taken from a hot hatch…but you wouldn’t expect a power downgrade. NO. Nobody would expect an industrial diesel from a piece of farm equipment with 39 […]
The W124 (1986-1996) generation Mercedes-Benz E-Class is in an interesting place in the automotive lifecycle. They are firmly between desirable classic and used car that a normal person might drive…but that shouldn’t stop you from considering one as a daily driver. They come from the early era of fuel injection and the early gasoline powered […]
This next car gives me a warm feeling of nostalgia because I owned a similar vintage W115 way back in the day. It wasn’t nearly as nice as this next car, and it would belch black smoke if you had the audacity to ask it to drive up hills, but elegance is not for the […]
A custom stretch limousine (like the ones that use the Lincoln Towncar as the chassis) are a dodgy proposal once they get 100k miles and 30 years on the frame. The workmanship of a custom car manufacturer isn’t horrible, but it is not the same as an OEM built classic. So if you want an […]
I’m somewhat surprised that a Mercury Lynx (rebadged Ford Escort) would have survived the years of enthalpy, entropy, teenagers, grandparents, and cash-for-clunkers in any shape…much less the pristine condition of the one we see today. Wow. Staggering, for such a miserable penalty box of an automobile. I’m not saying that the Lynx (in DIESEL!) would […]
If you ever open the radiator cap on your car and see something the color of coffee with milk, you know you are in trouble. If you haven’t seen that, consider yourself lucky, but lemme tell ya, that is the last thing you want to see inside your engine. HOWEVER, if you see the outside […]
This next car comes as a tip from Rock On who writes: Just in case the Mercury Lynx Diesel from last week wasn’t slow enough! Wow. Let’s compare. The Lynx came with a 2.0 liter Mazda RF diesel that put out a blistering 52 horsepower into a chassis that hit the scales at 2300 lbs, […]
The other day, it was announced that California is banning the sale of new internal combustion powered passenger cars after the 2035 model year and I wish I could say that I was upset or going to protests and try and save the V8 with manual gearbox. But I don’t buy new cars, so I […]
