In full-on rally mode. Looks mean with the lowered stance, negative camber, wide Yoko A048s, and rally lights.
Photo credit: mikael_danielyan
– Gyro
Guest contributor: Rome S. on the driving roads of the Catskill Mountains
•October 23, 2009 • Comments Off on Guest contributor: Rome S. on the driving roads of the Catskill MountainsMCB cousin Rome S. recently went leaf-peeping in the Catskills. This is his report.
This was my first time driving in the Catskills area in the autumn. I usually go up there 2-3 times a year in the wintertime to snowboard, and I did not appreciate the snow-covered roads as much as I do now.
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Last rites
•October 23, 2009 • 2 CommentsRecent news has the venerable Land Rover Defender being no more sometime in the nearish future (the Tata-owned company pegs 2013). We say that’s too bad. Although sports cars (either in the flesh or in Q-car clothing) are now more our thing, we also admired trucks and other chunky, body-on-frame four wheel drive vehicles while growing up (as per the zeitgeist of the times).
Chief among them were the four-door Defender 110 (make ours white, on white steel wheels) as well as the two-door Defender 90 (yellow, with chunky silver alloys and black soft top, natch). Nay, if called for, these vehicles are still one of the very few petrol-guzzling behemoths we would actually consider owning (the likelihood of prohibitive cost of admission and upkeep notwithstanding).
Random snap: Porsche 356
•October 23, 2009 • Comments Off on Random snap: Porsche 356Impossibly pretty.
Photo credit: Amaury Laparra
– Gyro
Eye candy: Ferrari F40
•October 22, 2009 • 1 Comment
Guilty pleasure: Mini Clubman John Cooper Works edition
•October 22, 2009 • Comments Off on Guilty pleasure: Mini Clubman John Cooper Works editionNot exactly deserving of our stamp of approval – a base price of > $31K for this car is an eyewatering sum – but at least one of us continues to remain intrigued, especially when dressed in this handsome brown.
Still, once we get over the sticker shock, and the fact that there are dozens, perhaps even hundreds of other cars new and used that would probably make better buys on one or more of practical, emotional, and/or performance grounds, we quickly snap back to reality.
It does makes for visually attractive yuppie urban transport, though (although we would be somewhat embarrassed to openly admit).
– Gyro
Random snaps: Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evo I
•October 21, 2009 • Comments Off on Random snaps: Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evo I
Question of the day: Audi S5 Sportback
•October 21, 2009 • Comments Off on Question of the day: Audi S5 SportbackBig, “sporty” pseudo-five door saloon cars aren’t really our thing, but if Ingolstadt can make them look this good, why can’t Stuttgart?
Motoring Con Brio 