What do you get when you combine a tossable luxury sedan chassis with America’s favorite V8? If you answered “the family perfect sedan”, you might be correct. What you get from handling from an E46 3-series chassis will be augmented by the power from the 6 liter Chevy V8, and the only question is; “why […]
Whenever someone asks me what late model convertible they should be driving, I tend to avoid the ubiquitous Miata and point them towards BMW’s gorgeous Z4, but maybe there is another German car they should consider. Most late models from Mercedes-Benz have lame self-shifting automatics (even the mighty SLR McLaren was slushbox shifted), but for […]
The E39 generation BMW 5-series was one of the last designs from BMW to not be Banglized and overly complicated. Complicated…yes…but not overly so. It will have some needs, but they won’t need to be solved with a fancy computer talking to other computers. Some of the plastic pieces under the hood are going to […]
I’ve never owned an E30 generation BMW 3-series, but I’ve wanted one since about 1993. They got REALLY cheap around 2010, but prices have gone up in the past decade. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find an affordable 4-door 325 with a stick shift for less than the optional auto-driving nonsense offered on a […]
The Paul Bracq styled W108 generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class is (in my humble opinion) one of the better ways to get into a vintage sedan for a semi-daily driver. The performance is acceptable, ride is comfortable, build quality is exemplary, but most importantly — drive one and you’ll look like a boss. Today’s W108 has a […]
The Mercedes W202 was one of the last pre-Daimler/Chrysler merge Mercedes that we would consider allowing in our garage. It still maintains the classic clean Mercedes styling, before the front end starting looking like a melting jack-o-lantern, and before Daimler abandoned its 100 year reputation of quality to pander to the gods of quantity. Today’s […]
This next car comes as a tip from INeedMoreHossa who writes: The above is one of roughly 600 e61’s imported to North America and the last of the 5 series wagons to come to North America. I would buy that blindly, but I already did that with a 2007 530xi. Find this 2008 BMW 535xi […]
I’m not a huge fan of the bagged / slammed / stanced look that seems to be popular on the instagram these days, but I’ve always been a bit of a square. However, this look on a Volkswagen CC might be an improvement over the stock version. The CC was available from 2008-2016 as the […]
You had me at fog lamps and triple Webers. This next car might need some work, but it has the bones of something amazing. With a few weekends of sorting this could make a seriously cool ride and the asking price isn’t nuts. Find this 1972 BMW Bavaria 3.0 offered for $7,200 in Redwood City, […]
There are a few things wrong with this next car. Maybe that isn’t a nice thing to say, because there is almost always something wrong with a cheap late model used sport-lux sedan…but this next car has peeling paint and disabled air ride suspension…which you might not care about after you mash the loud pedal […]