A fun car left by the side of the road as yard art I'm always on the lookout for my next spot and when we're in the car together it sometimes drives my wife nuts when I find a place to make a U-turn and circle back for some pictures. Since our daughter now lives... Continue Reading →
Zoomies 2025: Best Cars and SUVs Ranked
Savage on Wheels picks his top vehicles that he test drove this past year. It was a great year for family-oriented, high value wheels. Yes, there are affordable cars and crossovers.
Car Spot: A Mustang that’s not a Mustang
At least in Germany ... The hottest car on the planet in 1966 was the Ford Mustang. By the end of the year, it set an all-time sales record with just over 600,000 rolling off the assembly line. Mustangs were everywhere, except in Germany where somebody else, a truck manufacturer, had a trademark for the... Continue Reading →
Car Spot: 68 Mustang GT Fastback
Iconic 60s muscle car The late 60s was the golden age for muscle cars. The Mustang started it off followed by the Camaro, Firebird, Javelin, Cougar, Challenger, and Barracuda. Big V8s were must haves to compete in what was called the Pony Car wars. Trans-Am racing was huge at the time as the manufacturers raced... Continue Reading →
1973 Toyota Celica Liftback GT2000
Autoart nails the sexy Japanese 'Mustang' look ... I came of driving age in the early 1970s and while I drove a snazzy copper-colored Plymouth Duster, which I thought beautiful, the Japanese makes were just getting their footing in the U.S. market. Most models were boring, but to me, the “hot” car was Toyota’s Celica... Continue Reading →
2022 BMW 240i xDrive Performance
Entry-level sports coupe's performance a throwback ... If you wait long enough history often repeats itself, sometimes even for the better. Example: BMW’s new 2 Series sport coupe. In ancient times, when Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter were our presidents, BMW was famous for its 2002 sport sedans. Cute (but boxy) sedans that could rip... Continue Reading →
Car Spotting: An under appreciated Mustang
A Mustang fully loaded Most of us think of the performance-based Mustangs targeted towards the youth market yet there was one that took a different direction, the upscale Grande. Produced from 1969 to 1973 it was only available as a hardtop. It had tons of options, 45 to be exact, which was a lot at... Continue Reading →
Lights at night
How good are you at car spotting? I grew up with a kid in my neighborhood who could tell you what kind of car had just driven by listening to the engine. Yup, he was good. I love doing this, especially when the new cars come out. But when I was driving during the evening... Continue Reading →
Trans Am racing on a budget
I was into Trans Am racing almost from the start Being raised in a car family how couldn't I be? I wasn't there at the start on March 25, 1966 when the SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) kicked it off at Sebring International Raceway but picked it up a couple of years later when... Continue Reading →
2017 Ford Focus RS
Ford's Focus RS is a scorching hot rod ... Simply put, Ford’s Focus RS is a street-legal race car. Not many of those out there, and most that are require you to sell your house in order to make a down payment on said speedster. So here, for “just” $36,995, Ford will put a scorching... Continue Reading →