Tag: Car Culture
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MSIMA “The Cars” of 2025 Awards
Yet another year of driving garbage. And occasionally something nice. Welcome ya fucks, to the “The Cars” of 2025! A time for us to look back and reflect on all the four wheeled abominations we’ve driven and reviewed this year. Except for me, as I am both above and incapable of self reflection. Hope y’all…
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MSIMA Crashes the Overcrest Road Rally
It all started with an e30 parked at a motel next a bar in Maggie Valley, North Carolina. The four of us wandered over in mild bemusement turned genuine astonishment at what such a nice looking e30 M3 was doing here: And then we saw some old air cooled Porsche 911s that looked like barely…
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2023 Jeep Wrangler 4xe, the Best Range Rover Ever Made
The absolute pinnacle of jeep culture. A luxury SUV.
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Moo Moo Subaru Has Given My Life Meaning
There I was, wallowing in a puddle of doubt and depression. Yet another late day at the lab staring at screens. The joys of life, draining out of my eyes as the late noon sun baked its rays deeper into my unaccustomed skin. I approached my car, and I saw it. It lurked in my…
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Dear Car Enthusiasts, You All Failed Me: The Sad Tale of the GR Supra.
When it was announced in late 2019/early 2020 that Toyota would be building a new supra with a B58 inline 6 i was super excited. There it was, the rebirth of the high power, front engine, handling and track focused sports car. No longer would we have to deal with the sub optimal reputation of…
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Blackstone Laboratory Oil Test Results – 2001 Murray Minibike
Brought to you by SwedishDiesel Group’s Fueling Division. In the no-man’s-land of Indiana sits a company by the name of Blackstone Laboratories, which provides testing services for used oils as a means of finding out if your engine is on the verge of grenading itself. They test for viscosity, flash point, suspended solids, presence of…
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Top 10 Car Names if Your Sense of Humor Peaked at 6
Do we need to explain this one? Look, most of us here at MSIMA have a maturity level of a 6th grader who just learned to swear after giggling throughout their first week of Sex-ed. Anyways, you know what you signed up for, quality journalism and whatever this is! Also, forgoing descriptions here, the fact…
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Engineer Institutionalized Due To Prototype VW W-Engine
Semi-recently the prototype VW W10 engine has been discovered and featured by many different automotive journalism websites. However, us at MSIMA, the better automotive journalism website, discovered an even crazier prototype. Behold the VW W50. Designed to fit into the long forgotten midengined Passat wagon (artist’s rendition), this W50 has 5 times the amount of…
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Everyone has Jaguars end of life timeline wrong: The end started in the 80’s and 90’s, not the 00’s
From an abandoned prsion in the woods of PA the skinwalker presents: I’m going to make the absurd case to you all wonderful consumers here, that Jaguar up until very recently and for the last decade was actually a good company, up until the recent all too public downfall of the British, wait American, perhaps…
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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…