Tag: lancia
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Top Ten Ideas for an Aspiring FSAE Team
Like many engineers in the automotive world, lots of us here at MSIMA undertook the time-sink gauntlet that is being a part of a Formula SAE (FSAE) team. Hell, some of us even drove the little scamp. Not me though. But I got something better out of it… carbon splinters. With the wealth of personal…
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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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Top Ten Italian Junk You Should Buy Instead of Whatever You Were Looking At
I, dear reader, have a problem: I’m a sucker for Italian shit. I like their food, their deserts, their countryside, their music, roads, attitude towards historic rally festivals, and more, pertinent to MSIMA, their cars. Especially their older crap. It’s gotten so bad, that I actually have a spreadsheet with over 40 cars on it…
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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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The Stratopolonez – When Communism Was Truly a Party
A piece by Comrade Zdzislaw Most people know about the Polonez. It’s a terrible car, but it also went rallying. Yeah, no kidding, this car ran in Group 4 in rallies across the Eastern Bloc against other shiteboxes of it’s kind, like Wartburgs, Ladas, Dacias and Skodas. But what if I told you that there…