Alfa Romeo has a heritage any car company would be proud of. The pre-war 6C and 8C monsters, piloted by the old masters such as Nuvolari and Caracciola, dominated sports car racing. Even Enzo Ferrari had his shield on an 8C-35 for a time. Later, the smaller Alfas, the 105/115 Series did showroom and race [...]
Friday, June 26, 2009
Suppose you were a resident of some former Communist-bloc country any time between 1957 and 1991. You scrimped and saved and put your roubles on the table for a Trabant. Ten or fifteen years pass by in a blink and now you’re stoked; your Trabant is finally finished. Whether or not it was custom-built for [...]
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Subaru makes some quirky cars for quirky people. If you feel like saving the planet but need all wheel drive or abhor the idea of some battery-powered wienie-mobile, a Legacy or Forester is your ride. Subaru also makes fire-farting rally cars for the street, duking it out with Mitsubishi Evos for tuner bragging rights. Are [...]
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Sometimes these How Hard Can It Be? pieces write themselves. You see the desiccated remains of Jaguar or a 1920s Dodge sedan and the words just starts flowing like a river of boogers during a literary sinus infection. Some are more difficult, especially when there is an emotional tie to the subject matter, as happened [...]
Saturday, May 16, 2009
The Swallow Sidecar Company started building vehicles around the time dirt was young and air was entering adolescence. Several years later, the company introduced the SS Jaguar 2.5-litre sedan. Ten years on, in 1945, the company dropped the SS moniker due to a trademark infringement lawsuit involving Adolf Hitler’s estate. That last data point may [...]
Monday, May 11, 2009
Volkswagen, Audi’s parent company, cranks out a rocking diesel. These new-fangled oil slingers are clean, quiet, and they make oodles of torquey goodness. On a new VW diesel you can put a white snot rag over the tailpipe and the lack of sooty effluence with astound you. Of course that technology has oozed over to [...]
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Cars can be deadly dangerous for many reasons. Some cars can kill you with their eccentric handling characteristics (Porsche 911). Other cars can smite you with spleen-crushing acceleration (Caterham). And then there is the kind of heartless automotive wench which can kill you with nostalgia. Being a child of the 1980s, that hedonistic decade of [...]
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Max Grabowski created the market for commercial trucks in 1901 when he established the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company. Eight years on, the company was absorbed by General Motors and renamed the General Motors Truck Company, which later became GMC Truck. When they became rebadged Chevrolets is anyone’s guess. This 1930 GMC flatbed truck was hewn [...]
Sunday, April 5, 2009
I would like a Bentley Continental GT, and I would like a nice low price. Ebay is always a good place to find rotting carcasses of vehicles AMAZING DEALS? Well here it is, a fairly new Bentley that is, as of my writing this, just under $40,000. Which is a fantastic price… assuming that the condition is mediocre or better. Which, as you will see, it isn’t.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Here at CarEnvy we have incinerated considerable resources examining the human condition. We do this to better serve our readership through understanding and then acceptance, rather than mockery and physical abuse. Through exhaustive research we have discovered, among other character flaws, the basic problem with most people is that they lack vision. Vision is the [...]
Thursday, July 16, 2009
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