At 1:30 AM EST this morning, we closed voting on the closest Reader Ride of the Week poll we’ve ever seen. During the battle over the weekend, the margin between Adam’s 1972 Austin Mini and Oli’s Audi S4 was as little as one vote. As the polling continued, jockeying for the top slot became even [...]
How could we best describe this week’s selection of Reader’s Rides? Diverse? Too vague. Erratic? Too negative. How about a motley hodgepodge of four-wheeled absurdity? Sure. We’ll run with that.
Absurd doesn’t even begin to describe the idea of piling several of your soon-to-be closest friends into a short bus, destined to travel from one end [...]
It’s hard not to get all hot and bothered when we see an S4 doing the three-wheeled tango around an autocross course. However, this particular S4 is putting down 387 HP and 445 lb-ft of torque through all four wheels. In addition to such prodigious power figures, the 2.7L twin-turbo’d Audi has been piloted to [...]
Flickr user mtl_raoul’s G60-powered ‘92 Passat GL Syncro is one of those things that grabbed our attention when we saw it floating around in the pool. For one, the grille-free B3 Passats are still cool-looking today. Add the fact that the all-wheel drive Syncro variant was not offered in the United States and things get [...]
This is a tale of a man and his first love, which for a young man named Matt, and many of the rest of us, happens to be a car. Matt came to own his 1969 VW Beetle as a hand-me-down that had been bought and sold through a few family members before winding up [...]
It’s safe to say that when we came across a school bus in our Flickr pool we were a bit shocked. It’s not everyday that we see a yellow short bus on our daily slog, so the idea that somebody would use it as regular transportation left us somewhat dumbfounded. However, when we looked into [...]
A few of us around AutoMK HQ have an affinity for some of the more diminutive automotive offerings. When it comes to the classic Mini, it just doesn’t seem to get any better. Although its current iteration is one of the great vehicles to come out this century, they look downright bloated compared to this [...]
We said last Friday that we love the FD RX-7 and apparently, so do you. When polling ended over the weekend, ebaine1’s 1993 example received 42-percent of the 1,673 votes cast between Saturday morning and Sunday night.
The red rotary-powered ride beat out a gorgeous ‘77 Lancia Scorpion by 320 votes, followed by the Merkur XR4Ti [...]
There are cheap recalls and there are expensive recalls. Luckily for the Chrysler Group the current recall of 86,333 ‘06 Dodge Rams built between Nov. 7, 2005, and April 27, 2006 amounts to little more than adding grease to wheel bearings. Unfortunately for 2006 Ram owners if this issue is left unchecked it can lead [...]
Our readers have some of the most interesting rides in the whole of the webiverse. It’s plain to see that your automotive enthusiasm runs the gamut from cultish Italian iron, to precision corner-carvers; ill-fated sedans to rough-and-tumble pickups; even oddly shaped ‘Aminos.
Some fill us with envy, while others cause us to shake our heads, but, [...]
We sure do love us some FDs. Yes, the turbo rotary is a ticking time bomb, just waiting for the slightest hint of ping to send shards of that wonderful Wankel through the hood, and yes, the engine has to be rebuilt every 40-60k miles, but if you had to pick a vehicle from the [...]
Flickr user “91 s-10baja” shares with us his — you guessed it — ‘91 Chevy S-10 Baja in all its trick-looking bestickered glory. We love the simple, straightforward look of the old squared-off S-10s in general, and the Baja package that was offered from ‘88 to ‘91 really dialed things up a notch.
In addition [...]
Merkurs are some of our favorite cars. Flickr pool member sncollins has a nice ‘88 XR4Ti he’s been wheeling around for the last 20,000 miles or so. Powered by the tough-as-nails 2.3 liter turbocharged four that also saw service under the hood of SVO Mustangs and other Fox-platform cars, even a stock XR4Ti is a [...]
While we may not be as obsessed with all-things-Caminage as some other sites, we have a hard time denying the useful versatility of a rear-wheel drive sedan, with everything aft of the B-pillar removed and turned into a truck bed. Rumors are beginning to circulate that GM may be considering bringing back the El Camino [...]
Iconic Italian design comes in many forms and one of those is the Lancia Monte Carlo. Sold abroad from 1975 through 1979, the Monte Carlo was based off the X1/9, and came equipped with a mid-mounted, 1995cc engine that produced upwards of 120 HP. It was the elder statesman to its platform sibling, yet when [...]
