Does This Crazy Rough Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX Deserve To Be Saved?

There’s a difficult pain that all car enthusiasts go through when they see an otherwise stellar car in dire straits because of the horrible decisions of its current or previous owners. In particular, this is exactly that. Does it deserve a restoration by a caring enthusiast? I think it just...

Apr 23, 2025

You Can Buy A Brand New Aston Martin DBS For $200k Off Its Original Price

For those of you that think that my advice always comes with greasy and expensive strings attached, here’s the rebuttal to every one of your long-winded comment tirades. It’s a that not only still has a factory warranty, but has a price tag that was sliced in half and then...

Apr 23, 2025

The Dumb Argument Consumers Hear All The Time About Repairs

I have been filing lawsuits over defective vehicles — Lemon Law and others — for 23 years now. And one thing has not changed in all that time: I hear one dumb argument from manufacturers and dealers over and over again. Recently, I filed a case on behalf of a...

Apr 23, 2025

You Can Buy This Ferrari-Whooping Truck For The Price Of A Used Civic

Imagine this - you’re driving home on a cool summer night, your tape deck blasting Holy Diver when you come across a hungry Ferrari 348ts in the wrong neighborhood. If you bought , you could blow the Ferrari’s doors rightly off, then laugh maniacally because your whole car cost less...

Apr 23, 2025

What To Do If Something Gets Stolen From Your Car While It's In The Shop

I have written previously about what to do if your car is damaged while in for service. The is the law in Michigan which shifts the burden onto the shop for damage that happens to your car while it is in their possession, and many states have similar statutes. But...

Apr 23, 2025

What's The Most Technologically Complex Cheap Used Car You Can Buy Today?

I love cars that that serve as rolling science projects. It’s just something about the ways that auto manufacturer find solutions to problems that didn’t need fixing. So here’s a question: what’s the most technologically advanced used car you can buy that wouldn’t break the budget? I have a feeling...

Apr 23, 2025

What's The Best Under $50,000 Luxury Car?

What's The Best Luxury Car Under $50,000 On this week’s episode of What Car Should You Buy, Doug DeMuro talks about the plethora of sub-$50k luxury cars with Jeff Jablansky and myself. Audi S3? BMW 228i? Polestar Volvo? And then Tavarish comes in and recommends you buy a Rolls-Royce instead....

Apr 23, 2025

When The Shop Screws Up And Your Attorney Advises You To Play Nice

On Christmas Day a couple years back I got a phone call from my brother. His truck’s transmission had just failed and he was pretty sure it was the fault of the dealer. He was curious what advice I had for him since his truck was a long way out...

Apr 23, 2025

There Are A Bunch Of 2016 BMWs You Can No Longer Configure With A Stick

If you want to depress yourself, go to BMW’s online configurator and you’ll notice there is no manual transmission option on the 2016 228i, 328i and 428i models. Hopefully, this is just a glitch. Many of us moaned when BMW replaced the naturally aspirated six with a turbo four. While...

Apr 23, 2025

Get Your Bank Account Ready, The Ferrari 360 Has Become Ridiculously Cheap

I’m one to advocate a risky car purchase because with risk comes the juicy reward. But in this case, there’s no downside because , in both manual and F1 variants, has fallen off a cliff in market value. What that means is that normies like you and I no longer...

Apr 23, 2025

Welcome To The Garage, The Ultimate Blog For People Who Get Their Hands Dirty

Humanity’s greatest strength as a species is our willingness to challenge the impossible. To see a towering mountain as merely something that has yet to be scaled. To look to the stars and dream of going there. To convince ourselves that a $500 Alfa Romeo Spider on Craigslist is not...

Apr 23, 2025

Have You Ever Built A Hot Rod? Tell Us Your Experiences

The way you build a hot rod, so we’re told, is nothing but a couple months of grunting and beer drinking and then a T-Bucket magically materializes in your garage. What’s the reality? Everyone knows about the big shops and the big builds, but there is such a huge number...

Apr 23, 2025

I Just Lost $25,500 On My Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 And I Couldn't Be Happier

There’s a saying: money isn’t made when you sell, it’s made when you buy, meaning that it pays to get something cheap if that thing carries future value. This notion also presents a very unique problem in that parting with said cheaply acquired item can be excruciating, especially when it’s...

Apr 23, 2025

I Doubled My Hatchback Space With A False Floor And Here's How You Can Too

My Honda Logo, which is a so-called “Super Mini,” is small. Really small. Despite the car having four doors, it’s honestly a struggle to fit four full sized adults in the GA3. I’ve done it twice, and nobody enjoyed the experience. I almost always had the seats down. So, I...

Apr 23, 2025

Should You Swap Your Headlight Bulbs For LEDs?

LED headlights throw extremely intense light with very little draw on your car’s electrical system. Now that they’re trickling down to the aftermarket, you can buy a simple plug-in “LED retrofit kit” that straight swaps your halogen bulbs. We installed a set to see if that’s actually a good idea....

Apr 23, 2025