Beer cans, twizzler wrappers and tinsel litter the floor of the Daily Turismo headquarters and bath house. Yesterday was DT’s second birthday and what a party it was — 26 cars featured from A-to-Z, a veritable alphabet of awesome.
“Z is for DeLorean? What are you guys high on?” Whatever it is, it isn’t as good as the suitcase full of cocaine that Federal agents allegedly used to entrap John Z. with drug trafficking charges. However, with the power of the PRV V6 behind your back and the promise of open roads ahead, the […]
Y is for Yugoslavian, a household term synonymous with high manufacturing standards and reliability. Indeed, following Yugo’s lauded introduction to the U.S. Market in 1986, the sales success of Yugoslavian imports put pressure on the Big Three domestic automakers to increase their build quality and fuel efficiency. And now, an all-original example can be yours […]
Having plumbed the depths of the K-Car and now nearing the end of the alphabet its only appropriate that we head straight for the nadir of the auto industry. The 1980’s X cars from GM. X is for xactly what the doctor didn’t order, which is what the X-Body cars of the 1980’s were from […]
The English word wanderlust is combination of borrowed German words wandern (to hike) and lust (desire). Wanderlust was first used to describe a feeling of the need to travel, explore and see new things in the early 20th century, but is now used frequently to describe the urge to go on a walkabout. I feel […]
V is for vicious. V is for viagra, V10 and vindication — it is not for Wagner, so why would you pose a ballet dancer in front of your Viper? These two things are just about as polar opposite as you can get — the brutish and curvaceous Viper versus the lithe and flexible dancer. […]
What can be said about the Unimog that hasn’t already been crushed into the earth under its huge skinny tires? Back when Dr. Ferdinand Unimog had his original idea for a short-wheelbase cabover 4×4 after WWII, it was already unstoppable. After being absorbed by Mercedes-Benz the ‘mog proliferated into basically the most ultimate agricultural / […]
T isn’t for tuetonic tank, no…T is for a tea sipping topless tourer for two. Triumph introduced the TR6 in 1969 to replace the TR5/TR250 which was really just a slight change to the TR4…you could probably trace the roots of most British sports cars back to Roman chariots, but that is a diatribe for […]
The year is 1984. A cyborg materializes from the future to terminate the Scirocco because its light, lithe road behavior and durability would one day serve as the blueprint for a new breed of resistance warriors against the crossover overlords: the hot hatch. The Terminator was subdued so the John Connor of cars (Corrado, GTI) […]
Baby Got Back. That’s all I can think of whenever I see the last big Buick wagon, the final version built from 1992 to 1996 (and its Chevy Caprice cousin). Is it a coincidence that Sir Mix-a-Lot released his immortal hit the same year the GM dropped this big-booty bomb on the world? It would […]