Category: Typical Transportation Tribulations
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2024 Rivian R1T – Electrify This DICK!
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE, BITCHES. AND THE FUTURE doesn’t exactly know what it is. You’ve probably got opinions on this electric truck before even reading this sentence. And like the political climate that it was conceived in, reading a piece of shitty journalism won’t sway you one way or the other, but that’s not our…
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1992 Mercedes W124 E320t – You Sold Your Youth for This
Thank you all for coming. It means a lot to us all at MSIMA. Today we morn the loss of a friend in spirit and in metal. The death of a legend and the resignation from youthful passion, taken far too soon from us. Our resident pimp, the purveyor of one too many Mercedes W126’s,…
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Surviving the Apocalypse
To preface, the two of us are, at the time of writing this, admittedly cynical college assholes, high off our own internship fueled butt-fumes. Anyways, we toured a company that builds hellcat swapped, reskinned, 6×6 Jeep Gladiators. And then got to drive something! Welcome Mis-Shifted consumers to the end times: SoFlo Jeeps and the Apocalypse.…
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2000 Porsche Boxster S – It Just Works
By Backlicker For some reason, I never seem to drive normal cars under normal conditions. Autocross is an interesting place to test a car because you get to see what it’ll do under the most impractical of conditions. No where else will you attempt to pull 1.3gs in second gear. Or even want to. It…
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2015 Mercedes CLS400 4matic – Shouting Into the Void
Our very own MSIMA pimp and hoarder of mainly old Mercedes Benzs had a moment of realization: “the only car I own from the current millennia is currently a 6000lb British lawn ornament”. Now armed with this knowledge and the rising cost of gas compared to the up keep of a 1988 w126 420 SEL,…
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Community Poll: What Is Your Automotive Nemesis?
Share this with your friends to mis-shift into their asses too! How does the conversation always cycle back to BMWs? Each instance of a mildly divisive or otherwise open-ended inquiry being posed to the masses devolves into a discussion of those ubiquitous, inescapable symptoms of the universe and mankind’s hubris. An inevitable, ever recurring wave…
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2000 Saab 9-3 Convertible – Var Är Toaletten?
An old buddy of mine from the intern days drove out from Greensboro to Kannapolis to meet yo boys from MSIMA. Coming from Germany, he needed a slab to drive to work over his latest internship. And thus, the Saab 9-3 (‘vert!). Also, he is very German, but zis will come into play later. With…
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1987 Porsche 944 Turbo – Just Retire Already
NO! GTFO, THATS NOT A REAL PORSCHE. THATS A POOR-SCHE; YOU ONLY BUY ONE BECAUSE YOU’RE POOR!! ITS A LEFTOVER HALF ABORTION FROM VW THAT THOSE FUCKS AT STUTTGART- oh we get to drive it? Uhhhhhh. Another Porsche review!? Right after that Cayman? Actually, this and the 5’er that will follow came from the beginning…
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2018 Porsche Cayman 718 – I am No Longer Pure
What’s that? How’d we get a hold of one of these? And how’d we get on track? Don’t worry about it! So let’s start with the where: Rudskogen Motorsenter in Norway. It’s a track nestled in what are either large hills or tiny mountains. 7 left and 7 right hand turns across a 3.254 km…
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Car Shopping Under $30k: 2015 Jeep Wrangler 6 Speed
By: Xaroula When buying cars I’m sure everyone has certain criteria in mind, maybe you want to fit your family, maybe you want something nice and sporty, maybe you want something that’s a bit of both. However, there’s a secret option that Jeep has been offering for ages: Maybe you want to join an international…