Japan, as you most certainly ought to know by now, is the world’s leading producer and exporter of weirdness. So it shouldn’t exactly come as a huge shock that there’s a company called S.A.D. Custom...
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As loathe as most of us are to thank a tax collector, we think the folks who wrote the tax laws for automobile fuels in Western Europe are owed a tip of the cap, for...
The fuel price and supply shocks of the 1970s sent many of the world’s prestige automakers scrambling to come up with more efficient machines to keep their fiscally-flush customers in the fold. Mercedes-Benz, of course,...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUW9os-Ybh0 If you were in charge of a car company’s racing program and one of your cars had won that year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans for the 13th time in 15 years, would you...
The Land Rover Defender, which is not long for this world in its current form, is available in a cornucopia of configurations. Perhaps the most useful configuration is the double cab pickup, which features four...
Although we aren’t a beef-lover living in India or a Singaporean chewing gum enthusiast, we have a pretty good idea of how miserable their existences must be. That’s because we’re unabashed fans of the noble...
The Cadillac Escalade – which has just entered its fourth generation – is wildly popular (by full-size luxury SUV standards, anyway) here in North America. However, in international markets, its appeal is far more limited....
When Mercedes-Benz introduced its first generation of CLS-Class “four-door coupe” back in 2004, the Stuttgart company’s arch foes – Audi and BMW – likely rolled their eyes and said to each other that the world’s...
Having grown up in a diesel-car-owning household, we’re somewhat predisposed to harboring affection toward these spark-plug-free automobiles. And we’re especially fond of high performance diesel cars, as they’re fighting the good fight against deeply entrenched...
A significant chunk of American BMW fans seem to resent the company’s 5 Series Gran Turismo and recently introduced 3 Series Gran Turismo models. Much of that resentment stems from the widely held that they...