Watch Me Fix My Jeep's Shock Absorber Live Right Now

For all of you out there watching the clock tick as you await the weekend—wrenching time, as I call it—I’ve got something to hold you over for a few hours: I’ll be swapping a shock absorber today live on Facebook, and could use your help. Can you hand me that...

Sep 12, 2025

You Need This Super Cheap Porsche 911 Project Car Because Just Look At It

Porsche was never in the habit of making bad automobiles. Quirky, temperamental, and a bit crashy, sure. But even in their most drug-addled states in the ‘70s, the least deserving of the Porsche namesake was 10 times better than most anything on the road at that given moment. Case in...

Sep 12, 2025

The Little Engine That Couldn't: Three Breakdowns On Day One

I don’t have a lot to contextualize just how horribly my cross country drive in my started. Hell, I don’t think anyone has ever driven to their own tow truck before. First, the brakes seized on the six mile drive to the parts store to replace the oil cap that...

Sep 12, 2025

Ten Of The Most Dependable Cars You Can Buy For Less Than $4000

Just because you want something that won’t leave you in an oily stupor on the side of the road doesn’t mean that you’ll have to empty your bank account to do it. Last week , and you delivered on time, and most importantly, under budget. You can’t afford not to...

Sep 12, 2025

Why I Fuck Up My Cars

“The tint is illegal,” he told me, “but I’ve never gotten pulled over for it.” I was standing in a freezing-cold garage looking at a blacked out 2011 Nissan 370Z. It crouched so low to the ground that preschoolers could play leapfrog over it. Its marriage prospects had been improved...

Sep 12, 2025

The Best Truck You Can Buy To Actually Go Off-Roading

What's the Best Truck for Off-Roading? A loaded new , if you check all the boxes, will run you well over $100,000. It’s also one of the most off-road capable vehicles in existence. But is the person who buys that SUV really going to take it off-road? No. No they...

Sep 12, 2025

Jeep Owners Finally Figured Out How To Lift The New Cherokee

The was a solid-axle 4x4 with true low range and loads of off-road potential. The is a smooth, comfortable crossover. That hasn’t stopped owners from trying to jack it up and cram mud tires on it though, and it looks like somebody’s work has finally paid off. With unibody construction...

Sep 12, 2025

Check Out My Secret Neglected 1966 Ford Mustang Live Right Now

A few months ago, I my secret sixth car: a 1966 Ford Mustang that I had purchased for my brother (who lives overseas). Well, two years ago, my parents put the pony in storage in Virginia. Now it’s time to track it down and see if it’s still in one...

Sep 12, 2025

All Four Wheels Fall Off Immediately After Jiffy Lube Brake Job

California man Carl Brewer dropped his daughter off at day care, then dropped his Toyota off at a local Jiffy Lube. Then the whole truck just dropped itself on the ground. As in, all four wheels fell off while driving. Hanging out in the waiting room at Bakersfield’s Oak Street...

Sep 12, 2025

What's The Best Car For Learning How To Drive Stick?

What is the Best Car to Learn to Drive Stick? Much as we must all learn important and relevant skills like how to revulcanize your own tires and how to start your car with a hand crank, we all have to learn how to drive stick shift. But which car...

Sep 12, 2025

Buy This AWD Toyota Celica Rally Special So I Don't Have To

When you think of an all wheel drive rally car for the road, you think of an Audi Quattro, or a Subaru WRX, or a Mitsubishi Evo. You do not think of a grey 1988 Toyota Celica. But that’s exactly what we have here. . It was the homologation special...

Sep 12, 2025

eBay Challenge: Best Sleepers For Less Than $5000

Everyone loves a good surprise, whether it’s a cake in the break room or a swift kick in the pants when you stab the go pedal in a car that looks like it came out of a rental lot. That’s why today I’m asking you to show me the best...

Sep 12, 2025

Why Buy A Used Hyundai When This Crazy-Rare 3000GT VR4 Spyder Is Way Cheaper?

The magical decade known as the 1990s was a great time for car buyers. Manufacturers were throwing out every zany, half-baked ideas in the hopes that they would stick like spaghetti to a wall. One of the more insane offerings made by any automaker was the , a car that...

Sep 12, 2025

The Little Engine That Couldn't: Crossing The Sierras On Most Of A Motor

You know your road trip is a shit show when crossing the highest mountain range in the lower 48 on three cylinders counts as a good day. There is no way for me to adequately describe how optimistic I felt that morning, the second day of my cross country trip...

Sep 12, 2025

Here Are Ten Of The Best Sleepers You Can Buy For Less Than $5000

Just what in the hell is a sleeper? It’s the unassuming grocery-getter that can blow the doors off your V8 midlife-crisis-on-wheels. It’s also the type of car , and from the suggestions, I’ve selected the ten best vehicles that can discretely burn rubber without burning a hole in your bank...

Sep 12, 2025