For $17,900, I’ll CE Your 280 and Raise You 5.0

The German word for muscle is muskel which is also coincidentally how Popeye pronounces it. Applied automotively, that would make today's 5.0-powered MB 280CE a muskelwagen, but is its price enough to make your eyes pop? Unsurprisingly, a hefty 97% of you would not have popped for yesterday's , preferring...

May 2, 2026

For $2,000, Jamaica Phone Call To Your Momma Lately?

It's long been the rule of thumb here on that you never, ever buy someone else's project, as you don't know if they were all thumbs. Of course today's Triumph-based Jamaican needs so much work that it conceivably could be considered your project. Its price however, may not get a...

May 2, 2026

For $22,000, It’s Stroseks Or No Sex

Porsche's 928, while a timeless design, had a really big ass. The German tuner Strosek must have thought that too much is never enough, and today's Ultra III sports and even wider rear end. Will its price prove an equally continental divide? The 928 is a front-engine, rear-drive V8-powered coupe...

May 2, 2026

For $22,500, Buy That Funky Toyo-Modena

Ferrari's are wickedly expensive and are known to be finickier than Goldilocks, while Toyotas are typically bland but reliable. The seller of today's Modena-bodied MR2 Spyder may have found the best of both worlds, but will you find its price out of this world? When one thinks of Ferrari what...

May 2, 2026

For $2,700, Show Some S-Class

The W126 Sonderklasse was the last big Benz not to feel the competitive influences of insurgent Japanese luxury brands. Today's 560 SEL still exudes klasse, but is its price a little too sonder? Cubic zirconia, surimi, of women's claimed orgasms. . . all fake. And you can add to that...

May 2, 2026

Jeep Mighty FC Concept: First Drive

Despite the iconic seven-slot grille, the is as American as a Katyusha rocket. The retro-fantastic rock crawler shares its design lineage with the Soviet and the arsenal of atom bombs that terrorized the nightmares of '50s schoolchildren. Regardless of whether its roots are red, white and blue or just red,...

May 2, 2026

For $7,900, This BMW Is Off The Hook

If your tastes tend towards Teutonic tow trucks then today's be-hooked 3-Series Bimmer may be a winner, but will its price be a deal wrecker? When the world comes to an end this December are you going to go down sucking your thumb and holding your teddy? Or, are you...

May 2, 2026

For $16,000, Go On A Straight-Line Rampage

You can't just stick a two-story wing on any Mopar product and call it a Superbird, that dog won't hunt. Despite that, as today's dragster Dodge proves, you can drop in a massive mill and call it a day. But will its price turn this ‘bird' into a dog? Buying...

May 2, 2026

For $5,500, Be Not So Mellow Yellow

Sweden and speedin' go together like girls and dragon tattoos, and today's Volvo 850 is a velocity-empathizing example of that company's Stockholm Syndrome. But while it's built to go fast is it priced to be passed? While applaudable in the audacity of its execution - tailgate-applied faux bullet holes in...

May 2, 2026

Jeep J12 Concept: First Drive

Ask any young boy to name their coolest car, they'll likely pick a Jeep or a truck. There's just something about both that hit all the right Cro-Magnon hot spots in any pre-pubescent boy's mind. But merge them together? Well, then you get possibly the greatest combination of utilitarianism and...

May 2, 2026

For $11,000, That’s Willys Trike!

If home invader Goldilocks had decided to also steal one of the Bears rides, she might have found Mamma Bear's minivan to have too many wheels, and Papa's Harley to have too few. If da' Bears also owned today's Willys home-built, she might have found it just right. Will you...

May 2, 2026

For $6,500, Is This The M3 For Thee?

While venerated, BMW's E30 M3 did lack certain features possessed by its later, and better performing, brethren. Today's E36 for example offers both a drop top and an. . . automatic transmission. Will that second item guarantee its price needs to down along with the top? Unsurprisingly, yesterday's toppled under...

May 2, 2026

Doesn't Every Truck Need A Flamethrower?

Stand and fight, or run away? That's not a question most of us face each day, but big boy toymaker VWerks wants to make sure you'll have what you need to choose the former. Namely, a flame-throwing Dodge pickup and a .50-caliber-topped 1-ton Jeep. I got to drive both of...

May 2, 2026

For $8,000, Does AMG Make This MB OMG?

The seller of today's AMG-powered W124 says it's unfit for soccer mom duty until Danica Patrick starts popping them out. Misogynistic rabble aside, its C36 drivetrain should make this wagon entertaining, but will you entertain its price? Speaking of women and German cars, due to its fun in the sun...

May 2, 2026

For $15,900, Make Tracks

The great thing about a WRC rally-bred car is its all terrain-ability- the only thing able to slow it down being deep powder. Today's Subie WRX has even that surface beat, but will you find its price to be a big snow job? Okay, I promise, no more German cars...

May 2, 2026