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Camaro 1SS 1LE Speaking of compromises, if you’re okay with something that’s not Japanese, not especially highbrow, and $4,005 more than a Civic Type R, there’s always the Chevrolet Camaro 1SS 1LE. At $47,995 including a steep $1,395 freight charge, it’s a mullet-weilding trackday weapon with one of the finest chassis on any front-engined rear-wheel-drive car today. Brake pedal feel is as confident as a Toastmasters champion, the steering is surprisingly communicative, and the LT1 engine is an absolute torque monster....

Many of you may have heard much of this story before, but it’s so interesting that it bears revisiting. Also, I want to show you BMW wheels on a Honda van. While the second-generation Odyssey packed its spare tire under the floor with access through the cabin, the third-generation Odyssey did things a bit differently. Many minivans were moving towards offering seating for eight, so Honda offered a removable second-row center seat that it needed to stow somewhere in the vehicle for the sake of convenience....

I’m not really even into reds, since one of my favorite body-shop lines of all time is: “If you like red, you’d better also like pink in a few years when it fades in the sun!” The Craigslist ad had the perfect picture, at the perfect angle, in the perfect lighting with the perfect editing and filter — the type that made any car look like a hero car. Honestly, I think the 50-something year old woman that sold it to me just had a really great cell phone camera and some good timing/luck on her side when she took the photo....

This story came to my attention via my friend T.Mike, an elusive and shadowy archivist, who noticed a post on Reddits r/oldnews subreddit, and then found for me the original source articles. The first one described what sounds like a pretty terrifying riot involving 2,000 people that ended with the destruction of a jail and the freeing of the prisoners within: If you read the article, the reason those 2,000 citizens stormed the jail is because a “widely known citizen” was arrested on a traffic charge....

Fan Cloth? For Fun Cross? Really? The hell is fan cloth, anyway? The muslin or batskin or whatever they use to make folding fans? Or is it textiles for enthusiasts of things? Fan cloth. Pfft. I can’t stay mad, because Daihatsu’s lineup is just too damn good. I mean, look at some of these cars they sell: I like everything here! Sure, they’re all tiny Kei class cars, but look at the variety they manage to get in those restrictive size parameters!...

Back in the early 1990s, Nissan created a series of vehicles styled to look like iconic European cars from the fifties and sixties. The Figaro echoed the looks of a sliding-roof Fiat, while the Pao looked a bit like a Renault 4; there was even the ‘S Cargo’ inspired by a Citroen 2CV van. Under the skin, these “Pike” cars were underpinned by mechanicals from the modern Micra/March and had amenities like automatic transmission and air conditioning....

Before we can get into the Hyundai Pony Coupé show car, we need to take a quick look at the far less exciting production car that followed it, the Hyundai Pony. The Pony was South Korea’s first real mass-produced car, the first car they exported, and, really, the car upon which all of the massive Korean auto industry owes its existence to. Built between 1975 and 1990, the Pony was a pretty unremarkable car technically, even for the time....

Now, I don’t mean to incite a moral panic or anything, but I’m not entirely sure if motorshow beer is the brightest idea. Hey, it was the 1980s, attitudes were different back then. Popping down to the motor exhibition, grabbing a road soda, and trying not to wrap your Holden around a post on the way home likely wasn’t as frowned-upon then as it is now. It’s a bit absurd that Mitsubishi felt the need to resort to lubricating its customers in hopes of making sales, especially when you look at the company’s lineup in the 1980s....

Welcome to The Morning Dump, bite-sized stories corralled into a single article for your morning perusal. If your morning coffee’s working a little too well, pull up a throne and have a gander at the best of the rest of yesterday. We Finally Know How Much The 2023 Nissan Z Costs Finally, the numbers that everyone has been waiting for. No, I’m not talking about used car prices dropping, I’m talking about pricing for the 2023 Nissan Z....

NBC is relaunching Quantum Leap, the sci-fi show about a time-traveling scientist dude who tries to correct historical wrongs. It was a show from the 1980s and it was alright, I think? I’m not sure I’ve watched an entire episode all the way through but I do know what the show is. The NBC reboot may be good or it may be bad, but the prop department royally screwed up when it designed the worst shifter imaginable....

While brands like Kenwood and Alpine were seeing how much information they could cram onto LCD displays, Pioneer took a different approach by using organic electroluminescence as the basis for its Organic EL displays. The initial marketing materials had some pretty fantastic claims that Pioneer’s new displays were 1,000 times faster than LCD displays, and Pioneer had just the way to show off this new display tech. See, this was the turn of the millennium and entertainment technology was trying to do a little bit of everything just because it could....

The spacecraft in question is the Soyuz designated MS-22, one of the two spacecraft that are always docked to the ISS, acting both as ferries to the station from Earth, and, when docked, acting as a way back home, both for scheduled returns and in case of emergencies. A Soyuz can carry up to three crew, and with the current complement of seven crew on the station (four came up and can return in the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft) a working Soyuz is needed to provide safe evacuation of all crew....

Tensions with Russia, fruitless war abroad, crazy fuel prices, and impeachment define the mid-’70s as much as they define our era. If you’d made it to 1975 you probably had to accept that this was life and trudge forward as best you could. As Winston Churchill famously said: If you’re going through hell, keep going. And what better car to traverse hell than a Ford Granada? Not to be confused with the European model of the same name, the Falcon-derived American Granada was a mid-size sedan for everyone afraid of the future who wanted to downsize from their excessive landbarge… just to be safe....

You see “tiny houses” on every home décor show on television, with occasionally insufferable owners talking about how much it will improve their lives and how they are helping the planet with this “new” concept. Of course, this concept has existed in one form for at least half a century: it’s called a mini motorhome (or Class 3 home). However, since these were often covered in tan plastic with orange and brown stripes, they are well off of the radar of these new tastemakers....

Yes! A full one-fifth of you are crazy enough to take on that dune buggy. When one of you one hundred and twenty-nine brave souls brings that beast home, we expect a full report. Today, we’re shifting gears and looking at two vehicles with fixed roofs, four doors, and a certain degree of respectability that was lacking from Monday’s or Tuesday’s offerings. Does this mean that they’ll be boring? Not on your life....

Let’s start with power, where the mildly disappointing word is that American Civic Type R models will only make 315 horsepower at 6,500 rpm. I’m not even mad, 306 horsepower in the last car felt like plenty so 315 should be alright in the new one. Peak torque of 310 lb-ft appears as a very nice plateau from 2,600 to 4,000 rpm, so we’re looking at a fairly broad power band....

First, though, have a look at the Cybertruck wiper: Turns out it is one big arm, and two smaller, overlapping wiper blades underneath #CyberRodeo pic.twitter.com/mY9RfKarce — Drive Tesla ???????? (@DriveTeslaca) April 10, 2022 …and here’s a still, from here, annotated by me: See that? Two wiper blades. Hopefully the kind you can get from any auto parts store or “borrow” from that F-150 parked in the back of that motel parking lot down the road....

I always love when readers send me vehicles that I haven’t seen before. You lovely readers have been sending me buses, motorcycles, and even Smarts. Keep it up! This creation is the find of reader and good friend Austin Little, and it sure is something. There are lots of articles from a decade or longer ago talking about the Thoroughbred Stallion. But oddly, none of them ever really got into just what buyers got when they bought one of these....

Now, I know what you’re thinking, mostly thanks to secret NSA satellites: “Torch, dollface, come on! The TR7’s taillights aren’t anything special! In fact, they’re kinda boring! So what are you getting at?” Well, hold on a minute, I’m going to explain. Let’s start by taking a moment to talk about the TR7 (well, and TR8, which used the same lights) and its approach to design. British Leyland had a number of small sports cars competing in the same space between MG and Triumph, and Triumph needed something to replace the aging TR6....