I was watching some sort of big box streaming service on the tele the other day (how much longer can we go without live sports or a new season of the Grand Tour…?!?!?) and I stumbled upon a little gem starring the short guy from Top Gear — a show called Richard Hammond’s Big. Many […]
To say that Volkswagen built a bunch of Beetles is an understatement on the order of a statement like: Nothing ruins a good lasagne like a layer of shower drain hair between the noodles and mozzarella. Volkswagen built over 21 million of these things in the 65 years of production — this one comes from […]
It is a miracle that the SRT-10 Ram concept ever made it past the bean counters at Chrysler’s corporate HQ, and it was even a bigger surprise that 9,527 of these Mexican built monsters found buyers when new. Find this 2005 Dodge Ram SRT-10 here on eBay bidding for $16,600 reserve-not-met with a few hours […]
Surprisingly, the German built Taunus P3 was a relatively common car in Mexico in the ’60s. Like delicious tacos al pastor, the Mexican car market is and was a microcosm of a merging of cultures. Renaults, Peugeots, and Taunii shared the roads with huge American Iron. In fact, the Taunus did somewhat resembly a sectioned […]
By Matt — We’ve all got those one or two friends who are game for a road trip with zero notice. Do they have current passports that haven’t been revoked? Generally scrupulous and unwilling to make side-smuggling deals for quick cash? Ok, good. Now is the time to guilt them into the 2,100 mile road […]
Early in March 2016 I had the opportunity to travel down to Léon, Guanajuato – a 440 year old Mexican city full of 1.6 million people – for the only North American round of the World Rally Championship. WRC Rally México, as it’s officially known, is the first gravel round and the 3rd rally in […]
Welcome back to another edition of DT’s weekly quiz show, the Thursday Twister where we make little hats out of post-it notes and see if the float on a vat of used transmission fluid (spoiler alert — they do!). According to a recent Forbes article, Mexico will soon be the car capital of the Americas, […]
The concept of the jet pack was originally developed in the 1920’s by a crazy Russian inventor named Aleksandr Fyodorovich Andreyev. Rumors exist of Nazi’s using functioning jet packs around WWII, but those are likely just rumors and the real first jet pack was created in 1958 by some American engineers. Science fiction quickly adopted […]