Category: Typical Transportation Tribulations
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2020 Alfa Romeo Gulia ti Q4 – Lovably Mediocre
Oh Alfa Romeo. Revered by petrol heads the world across for like 10 top trim variants of road cars, all the race cars, and then letting the rest just kinda slide. Because who wants to think about a base 90’s spider or diesel Mito, when we have cars like the 33 Stradale or original Gulia…
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2022 Tesla Model Y – Temporary Glamour
Share this post with your friends to mis-shift into their asses too! It came from the airport – as did Covid, tourists, criminally priced drinking water, and all other good things in the 2020s thus far. This Model Why (as it shall henceforth be known) appeared in my life unexpectedly, and disappeared with relieving haste,…
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50th Review Special: 1996 Honda Acty Street – More than O-Kei
The prior writer was hauled off to be lobotomized for that pun. You’re in our world now. Welcome, mis-shifter and consumer of automotive content, yes you, coming back to your screen like a fly to shit. We own you now, disembodied voice of the viewer. By the balls and will not let go. I didn’t…
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Cross Country in da Karl
The build up of anticipation to drive a car named “the Karl” was immense. I mean, for one it’s literally called, “the Karl”. That’s like driving a car in the US called “the Bob”. Anyways, for months I’ve been relegated to the role of “passenger princess” since I started to call Munich home (oh the…
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1971 VW Sand Rail – The Super Luxurious Omnidirectional Whatchamajigger (Slow)
No. Fuck you. This isn’t a car. I don’t know why we let the Polaris slingshit or the bikes pass but n- Anyways, now that Monty has been locked away in my special room with no windows, we can proceed. Sorry, I needed to lock him away for now, because this is a special one.…
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2009 Fiat Panda 1.1 – Ultra Cheap Thrills
A review by Comrade Zdzisław You know every night I dream about getting a Saab 9-5 wagon. I mean come on, with those looks and that performance, it would be worth it. Of course that is not what I have when I wake up in the morning and walk out to the residential parking lot…
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The “Bid Mobile” – Trust Me, I’m an “Engineer”
WTF!? NOT A CAR NOT A CAR NOT A CAR! I hear your cries, your desperate pleas to understand just what this abomination upon the mechanical I have before you today. Well, dear consumer of content, we have a real Daytona Beach special before you now. Anyways, what is… it? Glad you asked, disembodied voice…
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MSIMA “The Cars” of 2023 Awards
Over the past year, us assholes managed to get our grubby little 20-something year old hands on a fair amount of metal and carbon. And for some reason, you guys keep eating it up. So like a fly to shit, let’s go back and recognize the travesty (and occasional triumphs) from the automotive landscape that…
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2023 Mazda MX-5 Miata Sport Tech (ND2) – Alpine Passes and Expensive Gasses
No time to explain asshole, I have two ND Miatas and everything from the German Alps to Rimini on the coast of Italy as my playground. Get in, buckle your ass up, and clutch kick this 2.0L slice of high revving self fulfillment into a grand tour from Munich to Rimini! The ND Miata retains…
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2023 Forester Wilderness – I Want My Shitbox Back
Deep in the warped form of the false self, a fragment of the true soul remains. Here, as now I find myself in a most strange environment. I am sitting in the Subaru Forester. I drive a Subaru Forester, and the OEM plasti-dipped black badges mark this as one. And yet, this machine surrounding me…