For $8,500, Here’s a Dime You May Want to Bag

A dime doesn't buy too much these days, but as we wind up Nissan week here at , we're going out with a Dime that you might want to buy, but is its price too much? Being a minor plot device in the movie Three Kings didn't hurt opinion on...

Nov 17, 2024

For $12,500, Get on the Bugus

Tastes great, less filling, peace without compromise, there's plenty of have-it-all maxims. And for today's , you can add the Bugus to that list. What, you might ask, is the Bugus? Well, let's start with what the Bugus is not: It isn't a mobile version of a Roach Motel, it's...

Nov 17, 2024

For $35,000, Slip your Crockett Into This Tubb.

Only 122 real 365 GTS/4 Spiders were ever built and they now regularly command upwards of a million bucks. Today's McBurnie-built Faux-rrari is only thirty five grand, but it still looks like a million. When I was a kid, one of my favorite 1/24 scale models was Monogram's , a...

Nov 17, 2024

For $4,000, You’ll Flip Over This Reliant

Schoolhouse Rock once espoused that three is a magic number. And while that hipster edutainment series never expanded the concept past basic math, today's Reliant can, because it's magically threelicious. Fake, phony, poseur, fraud, gonif; all good choices for vanity plates to be affixed to yesterday's , which, while it...

Nov 17, 2024

For $3,900, Be a Straight Up G

The Current Lincoln Town Car is not long for this world, and its styling wasn't all that elegant to begin with. Today's '89 however is sharp enough that you could cut a line with it. You probably wouldn't want to be reliant on yesterday's to get you anywhere in one...

Nov 17, 2024

For $900, Your Death is Almost Certain

Call 411 on your phone and you'll get Information. That might be helpful as the first question that springs to mind about today's Olds 455-powered 411 is WTF?! Beaded seat covers, along with the unavoidable presence that only an impressively large car, or a trail of used TP stuck to...

Nov 17, 2024

For $15,995, It’s the Falcon and the Blowman

The Peregrine Falcon is considered to be the World's fastest animal, with a diving speed of over 200 mph. Today's Ford Falcon won't do that, but then again, have you ever seen a Peregrine topless? At the dawn of the sixties, the major American manufacturers all began introducing smaller, more...

Nov 17, 2024

For $8,000, Today’s Supra Flavor of the Day is Root Beer

Hyphenated names are popular with women who want to maintain their identity after marrying some doorknob. Today's Toyota carries a twin moniker, but does its dowry make it not the marrying kind? A Falcon, like all raptors, feeds its nestlings be regurgitating previously swallowed prey directly into their mouths. Similarly,...

Nov 17, 2024

For $6,000, The Spitiata is the Lee Majors of Sportscars

In the Six Million Dollar Man an astronaut, effed up in an accident, gets some new parts making him a better man. Today's Triumph has gained Miata parts, and man, does that make it better! Yesterday's may have had a name that was hyphenated, but according to 75% of you,...

Nov 17, 2024

For $30,000, the Corvette Express Delivers the Custom Goods

The classic Corvette has style, performance, and for years has been the apple of the American enthusiast's eye. Today's Corvette custom takes that apple and wraps it in a red candy shell. The electric blue paint scheme of yesterday's mash up may not have reminded anyone of a tasty carny...

Nov 17, 2024

For $45,000, it’s the Lamboxster

Lambrusco is both a grape and wine from central Italy. Lambretta is a scooter, also from Italy. The Lamboxster, despite what you might think, is definitely not from Italy, but it is today's . Yesterday's with its THIS PART IS IN ALL CAPS SO IT MUST BE IMPORTANT ad copy...

Nov 17, 2024

Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon: First Drive

Get your sports car outta the way of this . I'll outrun you, and then, when you're crying about it, I'll offer you a tissue from the jumbo Kleenex box I've just picked up from Costco. (Full Disclosure: Cadillac put me up at the Ritz Carlton in LA for the...

Nov 17, 2024

For $12,875, Get Lei’d in a Maserati

Thorium-228, an isotope of the element thorium, has a half-life of 1.9116 years. Many Maseratis from the eighties, especially the Biturbo, seemed to last about as long, although today's Maserati 228 seems elementally un-decayed. Maserati has a rich history of grand touring coupes, and the 3500, 5000 and Mexico are...

Nov 17, 2024

For $35,000, This Boxster’s Already had its Fifteen Minutes

With forty grand in modifications and a Hollywood career that extends to a walk-on part in The Fast and the Furious 4, today's Boxster is the Heidi Montag of Porsches. Joe Walsh's Maserati supposedly does 185, a top end at which yesterday's just can't arrive. After losing his license, Joe...

Nov 17, 2024

For $23,900, Welcome to the Ram-per Room

For all its performance creds, the late Dodge Viper was left wanting when it came to carrying home bags of fertilizer. Today's Ram SRT-10, however, will haul both manure and ass. Yesterday's had been modified by its owner in an attempt to make it a Super Boxster, but which apparently...

Nov 17, 2024