2009 Toyota Venza: Part One

The has the unique ability to elicit both howls of displeasure and interjections of apathy, but considering what's popular with the masses, that doesn't matter. The question really appears to be: "Is it a good Toyota?" The resounding answer here is "kinda." Toyota has built itself into the worlds largest...

Nov 16, 2024

1981 Toyota Landcruiser Camper for a Zombie-Crushing $35,000 Canadian!

The is coming, but has got your delicious brain covered with a Canadian camper that's scalp-gnawingly tough. You all were none too kind to the yesterday- awarding it a non-Oscar contending 86% on the Crack Pipe scale. Today we're heading north for something a little more butch. Oh, and you'll...

Nov 16, 2024

2009 Toyota Venza: Part Two

Yesterday we talked about the , the seventh crossover or SUV to join the Toyota lineup. It's big, expensive and not particularly fuel-efficient versus other crossovers, so how about everything else? The Venza tests the limits of the company's traditionally conservative styling direction. It's weird, yes, but we've always felt...

Nov 16, 2024

Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers for $5,000

To B, or not to B: that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The of outrageous cost, or to take arms against a sea of car trouble. . . Yesterday's woke the Crack Pipe dead to the tune of 83 brain-splattering percent. Today, we're going...

Nov 16, 2024

2009 Toyota Venza: Part Three

Buying a Toyota used to be the frugal and responsible automotive choice. The shakes off that notion with big styling, big wheels and little fuel economy. Anything going for it? You've been buying Toyota's since that rickety Chevy Citation you had in 1980 caught on fire while losing a wheel....

Nov 16, 2024

2009 Audi TTS Roadster: First Drive

When you think of the , particularly the Roadster, your head probably fills with poor-driving, poseur car stereotypes. The is supposed to turn that image on its head with a 265 HP 2.0-liter turbo. That engine is the centerpiece in a thoroughly upgraded car. Shared with the Audi S3, the...

Nov 16, 2024

1976 Cosworth Vega For A Block-Splitting $3,000!

Vega is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, 25 light years from Earth. With an equatorial rotational speed of 274 km/s, it's a good namesake for today's high-revving contender. After giving the world the GTO, but prior to his dalliance in pharmaceuticals, John Z. Delorean took an interest in...

Nov 16, 2024

1972 Datsun 1200 For A Humming $8,000!

Frankenstein ran amok due to a maniac's brain being plugged into his lag-bolted skull. Today, brings you another crazy transplant that'll let you run mid-elevens. Yesterday's acid flashback to the era of full mustaches and odd-even gas buying surprisingly brought about a 65% NIce Price vote for the lowly $3,000...

Nov 16, 2024

2009 Nissan 370Z: Part One

The is a seriously high tech car. But unlike other high tech sports cars from Nissan, this one uses that technology to increase driver involvement making it seriously fun to drive. We typically bemoan any attempts to "assist" drivers with any form of computer chip. ABS? That's for girls. Stability...

Nov 16, 2024

Bartles & James Bentleys for $14,950 and $29,950!

Double your pleasure, double your fun, double your Bentleys because bets you can't buy just one. A biblical 93% of you invoked your Crack Pipe shaman to curse yesterday's . Today we have a pair of English twins that thankfully aren't the result of royal inbreeding. Frankenstein ran amok due...

Nov 16, 2024

2009 Nissan 370Z: Part Two

, we told you that the uses technology to boost driver involvement. Let's pick apart the Z's new technological bits, piece by piece. For reasons we don't really understand, the 370Z's styling is strangely controversial. We think it's a hugely successful reinterpretation of the 350Z's basic proportions, now adding references...

Nov 16, 2024

1982 VW Vanagon Westfalia for $13,000!

Are you looking for a home away from home? Well then, has a VW that will make you one happy camper. Yesterday's brought out the gray poupon in you, garnering a Nice Price majority on both of the mighty blighties. Today, we're going to think inside the box. Double your...

Nov 16, 2024

2009 Nissan 370Z: Part Three

Should you buy the ? Well, it depends on what your idea of the perfect sports car is and how fast you want to drive. You have two hobbies: driving fast and catfish husbandry. You love sports cars and you're either single or have a significant other prepared to drive...

Nov 16, 2024

Fifty-Fraud T-bird for an Old School $20,000!

The Stray Cats brought Rockabilly to a whole new generation of honky-tonkers and poodleskirters. Now, brings you a Thunderbird that wants to do the same thing for their cars. By the early nineties, the Thunderbird had reached a pinnacle of its modern-age renaissance. The supercharged, 210 bhp V6 represented the...

Nov 16, 2024

Offend the Man in Black for a Mere $4,500!

Johnny Cash made a career out of tapping into his innermost feelings of sorrow, loneliness and moral turpitude. Today, has a car that's all that and a bag of chips. When Wayne Kemp penned the rockabilly song- One Piece at a Time it's doubtful he had anything like today's contender...

Nov 16, 2024