No, not that Mod Squad. I’m talking about the people that “mod” their cars. There is an entire industry out there where a lot of people are making some serious coin around aftermarket modifications of their vehicles. There are a lot of reasons people will modify their vehicles, but they can really be organized […]
Entries from September 2008
The Mod Squad
September 16th, 2008 · Comments Off on The Mod Squad
Tags: Camry · Cars · Horsepower · Miscellaneous · Toyota
Does the American muscle car have a future?
September 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
A few days ago The Truth About Cars posted the question to its readers of “Does the American muscle car have a future?” Here’s my response to that question. (For best results this should be read with a redneck accent.) Whoooweee! Man, what’chu talkin‘ ‘bout? Does the American muscle car have future? Dang me. Who […]
Tags: Cars · Horsepower
What happens when you sell a GTO?
September 13th, 2008 · Comments Off on What happens when you sell a GTO?
This summer I purchased my GTO from a fellow automotive enthusiast. For the sake of this article we will call this guy “Ronny”. The fact that Ronny had a 2006 GTO 6-speed told me a lot about him as a car buyer. People don’t buy 400hp Pontiacs on accident. Guys don’t drive down to their […]
Tags: AMG · Cars · E63 · GTO · Mercedes
My Favorite Mustang
September 12th, 2008 · Comments Off on My Favorite Mustang
The Mustang Mach 1 was reborn in 2003 and was only made until 2004. For 2 short years one of the best modern Mustangs was produced. The Mach 1 had 305hp and 320 lbft and was notorious for being under-rated. The word on the street is that the Mach 1 really produced numbers more like […]
0-60 in 4.3 Seconds
September 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
0-60 times are used all over the automotive media as a benchmark for measuring a car’s performance. The magazines will publish varying times for each cars. This leads to the wildly inaccurate sport of bench racing. There are numbers that the magazines publish and then there are the numbers that cars and normal drivers can […]
A Little “Chrome” for your Vehicle
September 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Today Google released their very own Internet browser. Google has historically supported FireFox as a browser, but now they have their own way for you to surf the web. Chrome is a completely new browser. It is built based on the way we use the web today. All the other web browsers are evolving applications […]
Tags: Cars
Boat of the Day
September 1st, 2008 · Comments Off on Boat of the Day
Can the Car of the Day be a boat? Sure. On a holiday weekend a lot of people put their boats in the water to enjoy a little aquatic recreational fun. Boats are very much like cars from the stand point of all the variations that boats come in. You can get a boat that […]
Tags: Cars
