2009 Volkswagen Tiguan S, Part One

As legend has it, Abraham Lincoln walked three miles through the snow to return a book because it was the honorable thing to do. That's nothing. I drove 164 miles through Texas in a S to return a book because I've got a bad history of losing my best friend's...

Nov 16, 2024

Spoon Honda NSX-R GT, First Drive

They say you should never meet your heroes. For the most part that's true, I've never been more disappointed than after my first drive in a , childhood dreams of time travel completely squashed. When I was eleven I picked out the colors for a friend's dad's new NSX -...

Nov 16, 2024

2009 Volkswagen Tiguan S, Part Two

The puts its best face forward, literally. The front fascia borrows more from the attractive and than its platform-mate, the bland Rabbit. The proportions look muscular enough to tackle harsh roads (it actually isn't), sporty enough to best the competition on the track (it won't) and roomy enough to stow...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Dodge Colt Turbo Bumper Car For $4500?

Ready to cast some judgment this morning? 60% of you thought that the was way overpriced, in spite of that 351C/4-speed setup. Today we're going for something a little more affordable, in honor of the onrushing . Sometimes you see a car project and you have to wonder what the...

Nov 16, 2024

2009 Volkswagen Tiguan S, Part Three

Volkswagen has taken some flack for saying the Tiguan is like the GTI of crossover SUVs. It isn't. At best, it's the GTI of people who go antiquing on the weekend, don't drive particularly fast and live in a college town. If you don't want a wagon, won't drive a...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Wizard Of Oz Tin Man's '69 Cadillac For More Than $9600?

There's no end to the choices here, even after 57% of voters went with "Nice Price" on the yesterday. Today we're going to explore the value of fame in a car, in this case a '69 Cadillac Fleetwood- a cool machine in its own right- that was once owned by...

Nov 16, 2024

Jalopnik's 2009 Pickup Truck Comparison Head-To-Head Jubilee Event Challenge Spectacular!

We've had an abnormally high number of pickup truck first drives recently — the , the , the and the . Why? Because we've been working in conjunction with to bring you a full blown comparison on the 2009 models of every half-ton truck currently for sale in the 'merican...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: $226,521.63 For A Basket-Case 1963 Pontiac Tempest?

By now, almost all of you have heard about the Barn Find Of The Year, the '63 Pontiac Tempest that turned out to be the long-lost Stan Antlocer Factory Experimental drag racer, one of six lightweight '63 coupes stuffed full of 421 goodness by Pontiac back in the day (you...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1978 Mercury Grand Marquis For $15,000?

Sometimes you look at the price of a car for sale and you ask yourself, "Is that a pretty good deal, or would I have to be smoking the rock to pay that much?" That's what is all about, and we're going to follow up yesterday's - which 65% of...

Nov 16, 2024

2009 Pontiac G8 GXP, First Drive

If I were to tell you GM is the new BMW you’d probably laugh at me. But driving the just a couple of months after the and , that’s exactly what I’m thinking. Equipped with a 6.3-liter, LS3 V8 making 415 HP and 415 lb-ft of torque, the G8 GXP...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: $15,500 For A 1989 Mercedes-Benz 420SEL?

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe Time is with us once more, following up on the (which 60% of you felt ought to steam straight to Booth Numbah Two for the crack pipe) with another car for 15 grand. Actually, this '89 420SEL is 15 and a half grand, which is...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 2004 Maybach 57 For $129,900?

Last time we chose between the gold bars and Booth Numbah Two, the grabbed a stunning 90% rating on the Crack-Pipe-O-Meter™. The global economy is taking body blow after body blow, which you'd think would knock the price of high-end used cars down to Prole Territory… but such is not...

Nov 16, 2024

Toronto Resident Rides Like A Politburo Big Chief In His GAZ Tchaika 14

This is , where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the . Today we're heading back to Toronto, a city that's given us all manner of interesting old iron in the past, from the to . has found one of the rarest machines of them...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $25,000 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z?

Yesterday, 68% of voters for a 4-year-old lemon-law-buyback Maybach 57, which is doing pretty well according to the harsh standards set by Nice Price Or Crack Pipe. Today we'll be considering a super-low-mileage, near-showroom-condition Dodge Daytona… but we're not talking about the kind of Daytona with the big wing and...

Nov 16, 2024

Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: Herbie The Love Bug Replica For $20,000?

79% of our readers thought that $25,000 was a hubba-fied price for , but maybe that's because 80s nostalgia hasn't taken a firm enough hold of our culture yet. That's why we're going with a car everyone appreciates: Herbie The Love Bug! Unlike what you'd experience with your , you...

Nov 16, 2024