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Dodge Made a Miata-Sized Demon
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The name “Demon” has been applied to several cars (besides just the immensely powerful Challenger trim.) Three vehicles have carried the name. The first was a trim of the Dodge Dart. It had a little demon character holding a pitchfork on the fender. They had to remove it later following protests from Christian organizations. The…
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Fast and Furious 9’s Trailer Paints the Film as the Official Movie of, “Why not?”
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The Fast and Furious Franchise started in 2001 with modified Honda Civics stealing televisions, and a tuna sandwich on white with no crust. Now, it’s a futuristic experimental aircraft (piloted Charlize Theron) picking up a new GT500 with a giant magnet after it’s intentionally driven off a cliff. Why not? There’s a part about “family”…
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Dodge Made a Concept Car as a Collaboration with Razor Scooters
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Doing research for these sort of 90’s or 2000’s era articles brings you back to a time and place that–I lived though–but is still strange to me. I almost can’t put it into words. Sometimes I think about it, looking back. “I didn’t wear baggy cargo shorts! My Dad didn’t wear ties like that!” Or…
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NASA Built a High-Performance Pontiac in the 60’s to Test the Predecessor to the Space Shuttle
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In 1963, NASA needed a car. Specifically, one powerful enough to tow a thousand-pound prototype aircraft at more than a hundred miles-per-hour. It wasn’t a regular aircraft they were towing, and it wasn’t a regular Pontiac towing it. What is a lifting body? The car was meant to tow a ‘lifting body’. A lifting body…
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Oldsmobile’s Strange Yet Valiant Last Stand in the 1990s
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I’ve said before that when Oldsmobile got canned in 2004, no one really cared. Heck, I didn’t really care. However, several different threads have suddenly found themselves woven together in my automotive awareness. I’ve changed my mind. Oldsmobile did some strange yet cool stuff in the final years of their existence. It’s all very 1990s,…
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Is the Corvette’s Flat-Plane DOHC V8 Related to Cadillac’s Blackwing?
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Not a ton of information has been released concerning the DOHC, flat-plane V8 that is likely going in the production Corvette–a version of which is already in the C8.R. What we do know is that it displaces 5.5 liters, has four camshafts, and the crank is of the flat-plane variety, more often found in four-cylinder…
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Wayback Machine Allows a Peek into Defunct Detroit Automaker Websites
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The WayBack Machine is an archive of the internet. Not everything is available, but many websites from even the nineties can still be accessed. That got me thinking; what were the websites of defunct Detroit automakers like Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Mercury, and others like right before they went out of business? I have some answers. Pontiac…
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The Mercury Cougar’s Final Generation & Journey Into Obscurity
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Just gonna cut to the chase here, I have never seen so many consistently dirt cheap cars online (outside of craigslist) before I looked at used Mercury Cougars. The last generation of this car is just… Well, take a look. Those aren’t even the cheapest ones. That six hundred dollar car? It’s not even the…
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Pre-Recession Chrysler’s Crossfire SRT-6: The Working Man’s E46 M3?
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I always had the thought in my mind that, “Hey, that SRT-6 Crossfire? That’s like the working man’s E46 M3! I should make a post comparing them!” This all seemed like a lovely idea, so I started doing my research and it all looked great. It’s truly strange how similar the two cars are on…
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Pre-recession Ford was a big happy Crown Victoria family
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The Twentieth-century ‘boilerplate American sedan’ was supported by five pillars. The first is a body-on-frame construction to keep repairs cheap, exteriors fresh, and curb weights high. The second pillar is a V8–not because its a performance car, but because it probably needs it. The third is a solid rear axle, because independent rear suspension is…
