During the hot hatch wars of the 80’s and early 90’s Volkswagen Golf GTIs squared off with Honda Civic SIs in the United States each with a dedicated following. It looks like with the Ford Focus ST now joining the two well-known models and what seems to be and arms race of horsepower in the […]
For whatever reason, in the USA market, the modern Corolla is this terrible bottom feeding econobox that makes driving a Matrix look like fun. Sure, you could get the 2ZZ-GE engine in the 05-06 XRS trim, but to get the really fun stuff, you need to head across the ocean to a former British penal […]
A few weeks back I wrote about my inept ability with all things Italian featuring a mid-seventies GTV Alfa. DT readers are an educated bunch and I learned a lot about the car in question. The world of Italian cars is still a black hole for me, but I look forward to pulling up my […]
The early ’90s saw the Mustang/Camaro war in full swing. Blows were being exchanged faster than San Francisco real estate. You had the Mustang faction and Camaro clan constantly bragging over who’s hero ruled the streets. Sentiment was so strong that friends were divided and recruited into each camp. For me, the Mustang was undoubtedly […]
This Fiat 128 Sport Coupe is up for sale after ending an eBay auction for $9,000 in June of 2014. It is still offered in the same city with some of the same photos, so the previous sale might have fallen through or this is a different seller who is looking for a considerable profit […]
The 3rd generation Mitsubishi Mirage was sold in North America starting in the 1989 model year at Mitsubishi dealers, but you could also get the same exact car (albeit with different badges) from Dodge/Plymouth dealers as the Colt, and over at Eagle as the Summit. They should have imported the top of the line JDM […]
Fuel economy and speed don’t always have to be at odds. In fact, efficiency is the ally of the hyper-miler and racer alike. One way to achieve the best of either worlds is to decrease the mass of your vehicle. Here is an example of a car that took weight advantage to the extreme to […]
The Nissan Silvia S12 generation was a sporty little front-engine rear-wheel-drive coupe/hatchback that was sold as the Nissan 200SX in the USA from 1984 through 1988. Rust, misplaced confidence, and general negligence (reporting for duty — SIR!) have all but removed most of these from the roads, so finding one in nice original condition with […]
The fourth generation Honda Civic is not a car that you find in good original condition very often — it seems that most have been driven/smashed into the ground or pimped out by Mountain Dew chugging teenagers. Thankfully, a few have escaped the shopping cart dings and fart-can mufflers that roam the parking lots of […]
The Chevrolet Monza was released in the 1975 model year as GM’s biggest subcompact offering on the H-platform shared with the Vega/Astra/Sunbird/Skyhawk/Starfire. It was GM’s answer to new sporty-ish compact offerings from Ford like the Mustang II, Capri and Dodge’s Galant based Colt. The Monza was actually quite a strong seller, with almost 750,000 examples […]