A regular car review for a 2002 Toyota Echo. A calm and rational review of all the specifications of this car. 40mpg easy. 1.5L 4cyl. approx 108 bhp. Plenty of room in the trunk for three kegs of Holy Water. When they sleep. When they sleep. When they sleep. They don't sleep. It has room for 5 adults, but the back seat is rather cramped. Performance is better with the 5-speed than with the 4-speed automatic.
The South African Citi Golf is. Why is VW still making this car? Why is an American reviewing it? Why can't I think about the book? It continues is-ing. What is? Swazy-Land. Fun to be a passenger.
The 2nd Generation Caravan (minivan) is a paragon of Family Values. Its multi-fuction design and car-like ride makes it a superb people-mover, cargo-hauler, town runabout, and commuter. In this video, we will talk about the Caravan's history and features.
In order to understand the importance of the Subaru Outback on the North American Market, we need to come to grips with Australian Stereotypes. While they are nasty, the same stereotypes kept an entire car division from going under. My wife is never coming back.
A dry facts-only review of the 2007 Honda Accord. This is a good car for businessmen who need to be "on the road" a lot, if you know what I mean.
A "Family-First" Sport Utility vehicle that understands Catholic Values. Put your shoulder to your wagon and change your oil. I take a chainsaw to Church. I take an Ax to Mass. Count your blessings. Count your Amyl Poppers
If this car were a book, it would be a grammar textbook. If it were a CD, it would be "NOW That's What I Call Music, Vol 11." If it were a song, it would be the music they play at the Oscars when someone talks too long during their acceptance speech.
This is not a car. The gs500 gets better mileage than any gasoline-electric car could dream of. I have to poop again.
Epileptic Seizure WARNING! Two jokes in this video have fast moving images and flashing lights. These images have the potential to photosensitive epilepsy. Watch at your own risk.
If a Tacoma is such a good truck, why don't contractors use them more? Granted, construction companies may want to drive domestic vehicles to display a patriotic image, but there are sounder reasons. For instance. That tin of Digestives is looking at me. It watched me poop. IT IS THE POOP. It is watching ITSELF! It is watching the circle of life. It is watching the circle of WIFE. My WIFEAU! No! no! I love America! It's a British cookie. What is a biscuit? I have ENGLAND in me. Get it out. I pout. I drink stout?! No. No Coores Light!
Photos of NYC Taxies are copyright and credited to Noah Noahforman (@nyctaxiphoto). Volvos do last a long time, but Town Cars last longer and take twice the abuse. Speaking of abuse...You're listening to "The Beer Belly" on 98.3FM! The non-stop rockin' rock plop cock-block station for all of The Commonwealth! We're broadcasting from The Automile! Come on down and enter to win a Lincoln Town Car! Feeling lucky pucky? Well go for the Double Brown
In 2004 Volvo comes out with something no one was expecting; a 300hp, turbocharged 5-cyl rage monster. Finally suburban kids had a way to get back at their Bush-Loving Fox-Body Driving Dads. Finally my love-pucker can take more than a Maglite. Make all the comparisons to the BMW 3-Series you want. The S60R isn't really a BMW. It is loaded with electric motors that weigh it down. The good news is that no one expects a Volvo to be fast. No one expects you to butt-chug aftershave either.
We're going to visit Daddy today! His apartment building is nice. There are little sculpted bushes outside. I put my Hot Wheels on a fun ride though a little box before I go though the second door of his apartment building. Then we go to his living room. All his friends dress the same. They are so funny. Dad says he is coming home soon. He talks about his four friends who will give him a ride home. They are all named Goldberg! Sometimes one of the Goldbergs is there. He wears a tie and carries a business case. Then, Daddy has to go to gym class. He said it is for grown-ups. Mom tells us it is time go and we get back into our Jeep and bounce home. She says Daddy will be able to play again soon. Mom says when Dad is done with grown-up-sleep-away school, we're all going to Dorny Park and Wildwater Kingdom! YAY
Dodge Avenger: A blue collar cry for help. It's the car that neither of you gets in the divorce. Never have I driven a car that so accurately recreates the feeling of getting fired. I can only eat Turkey Hill ice cream if trim my pubes first. Chop off my dick and give me YOUR DICK!
Why did the Fiat 500 fail to unseat the Mini? Does THE JOKE have something to do with it? True story: the owner of this 500 Abarth was in traffic somewhere near the Walt Whitman. A bum was going from car to car, asking for change. He gets to this Abarth and asks @barkerdk, "what kind of car is this?" @barkerdk tells the bum. The bum instantly responds with THE JOKE.
The Mazda Miata is like a Harley Davidson Sportster 1200; it defines an entire phylum of vehicles. Do you want a fun sports car? Here's your Mazda MX-5 Miata. There are folks who dive Miata's as their only mode of transportation, and they work. How they brave East Coast slosh winters, I don't know. I do know that the Miata is the dirty cheat-code of cars. No one can bust you for driving a Miata because the little bugger is perfect. UGH. You're just a #1 winner all the time. It just bugs me that the Miata has no lovable faults. Yes it's small...ok...yea it's a little slow for a sports car. It's just, it take no grand risks. It's a ham sandwich with lettuce, cheese, and tomatoes.
The Mercury Sable is good for driving to grandma's house were you can go in basement and open the closet that she doesn't want you to open. She says to stay out of the shadows. Grandma says that if you walk in shadows, you will become a "shadow man." The state took her license away last year so you can drive her car. You had to eat Taco Bell for three days straight to fart her smell out of the upholstery.
If you commit to a Honda S2000, you will be hassled by the police the second you stray one mile-an-hour over the speed limit. Here's why: The S2000's X-Box controller layout repels docile family men in the 60's with gray hair. Girls don't like the car either. Angular shapes remind them of their selfish ex-boyfriends. Men in the 30's to 50's can't buy it because it is too expensive of a toy to justify to their nuclear unit. This leaves only one group: spoiled rich-kids. The S2000 is a Boathouse Row graduation present. It is driven largely by the type of kid who L.E.O.s looooove to pull-over: Me-Monkeys.
Take me back to 1999's cherry topping. The year 2000 was perfect. The music was payola-fueled and I had a 56k PCI modem. The Saturn L-Series was the last bare-palmed handy before it was time to go to work forever. Take me back to the 90's. I want to wait thirty minutes to burn a CD. I want to wait for mom and dad to go to sleep so I can go online without tying up the phone. My Game Gear doesn't work anymore.
The Cayman is the Mason Dixon line between rich and poor. This doesn't mean that a Cayman owner is rich. It doesn't mean that a Boxster owner is poor. It just means there's a line, for good or ill. We're silly creatures, us humans. Our bilateral symmetry makes us prejudiced toward invisible lines. We draw them in damn near everything. Ideas that run along the gap between our caveman definitions between black and white are mocked and vilified. Porsche's Cayman is not the foreman's weekend Boxter, nor is it the parcel owner's 911. The Cayman lies in that horrible DMZ, taking hate from both sides. Even I can't help myself. I must place the Cayman somewhere, but where? From my perspective, from my bank account, The Cayman is a Rich-Man's Car.
Chrysler created the best pickup truck of the 90's by building a Tonka Truck instead of a complainant work vehicle. This 4 or 6 wheeled masculine-dicto-simpliciter also changed the line-up of every manufacturer forever. The new Dodge Ram de-throned the luxury four-door sedan as the King of the Car Lot. In the 1990's, trucks became premium vehicles. The Dodge Ram also cemented the idea that a truck must look like a synthol-pumped, penis-panicking, club-brawler. I got the tow/cargo ratings all wrong in the Dodge Ram video. Sorry about that. As a peace offering, please accept this novelty Johnny-Cash-style song written and performed by a friend of mine. Three people are murdered in the song. The song is called: "Wodega."
In 2005, cars begin to mimic the disgruntled national emotion toward an unending war and an uncertain economy. 2005 saw "angry headlights" getting a percent foothold in car design. RAAAAGH! I'm angry and I'm taking to the roads and telling the world about it! I CAN ONLY EXPRESS MYSELF WITH MY CAR!
You humans, you have constructed a very swift terrestrial vehicle. Yet, why do you continue to resist travel by light? The Nissan 370Z is the spiritual successor to the Dautsun 240Z. It is a fast cheap sports car. In a straight line, it is much faster than a Base Porsche Cayman. It is also the first car with electronic rev-matching on a manual gearbox stick. This is not a gross RCR video. You have been very patient. Good. Very good. Next week...YOU WILL BE REWARDED!
Built for nuclear families, adopted by hipsters, and raced by enthusiasts, The Volvo 240 is the Unreal Tournament of the automotive world: forever being rebuilt and re-purposed. MEAT! You've earned THE MEAT! I wrote the George McGovern joke with Dan Neil in mind. There was this one moment on "The Car Show" where he made this T.S. Elliot reference and the automotive world needs more literary references. All content in this video is original. The opening song is performed by us, the creators of Regular Car Reviews. We own all rights and contents to this video.
The Nissan Stanza is the shoe-gazer of cars. Complainant enough, but driven to exhaustion by trying placate the lower-middle class. If the Stanza were a sport, it would be slow-pitch softball. If it were TV Channel, it would be Community Bulletin Board. If it were a food, it would be a communion wafer. If the Nissan Stanza was a conversation topic, it would be Weather. All creative content rights, both audio and visual, of this video is owned by Regular Car Reviews.
So British. The Mini Countryman Cooper S is for people who want a Mini, but don't. The Chrysler PT Cruiser called, they want their idea back. ENGLAND! NOSTALGIA... Mini of North America would have fitted fiberglass bowler hats to the roof of the Countryman if they thought they could get away with it. Whoops. I got the year wrong. It's a 2012 Thank you to: RemyRemington for letting us film your car. www.youtube.com/user/RemyRemington
A rolling semiotics lesson: the Mustang is entrenched in American culture to such an extent that criticism of the car equates to criticism of the country of its birth. We need to come to terms with the way language shapes our thoughts before we can go back to the HUDDLE HOUSE and get serviced by CLAUS. Nnngggghhhh .....LIPS
This is a car from the age of Grunge Music, live axles and red plush interior. The Suburban is not an SUV, not really. It is a work truck that happens to be enclosed. Like the Lincoln Town Car, it will outlast modern cars.
If the Lotus Elise was a person, it would be that jerk who eats nothing but fried rice and city chicken, yet never gains a pound. The Elise is also the gate keeper between daily-use cars that are kinda fast (Honda S2000) and dedicated sports cars (Elise). Once you drive one of these...oh man...like Like Skywalker swinging at that remote with the blast-shield down...Regular Car Reviews has taken a first step into a larger world.
Chevrolet Caprice: A discarded memento left behind during the enthusiastic dot-com white-flight of the late '90s. Gaze upon it! See it one last time before "donkification" takes hold. The Caprice is a hold-out for mall-walkers. They shuffle, arm-in-arm, staunchly defiant against a mutant world which, in their eyes, is changing for the worse.
MR2 AW11: A car that still is championing a 1980's doe-eyed optimistic view of The Future. Yes! Computers! Computers are the future and everything will be new! Look at this car. It has a computer! Beep Bop Borp! Roadblasters!
Why has a conservative German GT car become the darling of "Stance Culture?" The E36 was meant to refine the tail-happy E30. Big thanks to designer Ted Stoltz from www.tedstoltz.com for helping out with photography and videography. But new safety standards and uncooperative US import laws turned the North American M3 into a big lump. Here's what an E36 is used for today (2014): Roll up to a bar after the kitchen is closed, get out of your E36, pick up the car and stuff in in the front of your pants and visually lie to all the 19 year old girls with fake ID's. STANCE NAAAAAATIONNNNN! Bimmer Bro! Bro Bimmer! I scrape my splitter on Second Street. It makes a the ladies want my un-cut meat!
Save us FRS! Rescue me BRZ! I want a fun car like people had in the 1980's! I want to come to terms with my love of women who "have something extra!" The FRS is a sports car's Sports Car. Is this really the savior that every Gamer-tag is trumpeting it to be? Not really, it's a muted sports car that won't hurt you when it catches you trying give yourself a handy at at red light in Brownstown. Big thanks to designer Ted Stoltz from www.tedstoltz.com for helping out with photography and videography.
The Veloster is to Hyundai in 2013 what the CB750 was to Honda in 1969. The Hyundai Veloster is the gem of the company's new Premium Youth Lab sub-brand, filling the gaping wound the Tiburon left on the mortal flesh of Hyundai's corporate carcass in 2008. If I had the money for a turbocharged hatchback, I would buy a used Honda CX650 and a Dodge Omni.
So many Mazdas of all shapes and sizes, We did the Miata Which is why this franchise is. The RX-8 was an improved RX-7, which had been discontinued since 2011. It came in all colors It came in all shades, turd brown, magenta And gunmetal gray. Naturally aspirated with side exhaust ports, the engine was the 210 horsepower sort. They said it was sleek. They said it was classy. But it was really just built on an MX-5 chassis. Its style was developed through design competitions, in America and Europe, in the Mazda tradition. And also Japan, let us not forget them. Like America's forgotten about Robin Wright Penn. The car was designed by Ikuo Maeda. A man who loved cars, and maybe paella. The 50:50 front-rear weight distribution makes this the official car of Hitman: Absolution. Your friends all will marvel, while drinking their Coors, when you open the freestyle suicide doors. They provide easy access to seats in the back. Since drunkenly banging takes all of one's tact. A symbol of money culture made manifest: That's how to describe the RX-8 best. For this is what Mazda intended to purvey to make you feel King of all you survey. But this is a shadow? A trick of the mind? A king of the road? Why, you are no such kind! This car attracts bros. This car attracts schmoozers. This car attracts winners, bambizzlers and losers. This car seats much lower than old Honda Fits. But it feels like you're sagging like elderly tits. Headlights don't go up, nor do they go down. They do not make noises. They don't make a sound. As a coupe it's not high, nor is it too low, but we cannot fit rollbars for track day, my bro.
A car that gets you precisely in the way you wish to be gotten. Special thanks to Ted Stoltz for serving as our 3rd videographer.
The C3 'Vette is an Atlantic City escort, layering on foundation and mortgaging her future to maintain a lifestyle that has not made sense since 1967. When I see a C3, I think about that lady at the bowling alley bar who grabbed my hoo-haas in 2008. She held her Kool and said: "It's about time we get some YOUNG blood in this place. Special thanks to Ted Stoltz for serving as our 3rd videographer.
Hated by Mr. Regular, loved by The Roman. The VW Jetta is a 1990's box of contradictions.
BMW 740il: The official car of "making a few phone calls to sort this out." In 1998, BMW's luxury cars were not trying to be "sporty" as so many big German cars do today. If you drive a 740, you are driving a stock portfolio that had buried more workers than the Hoover Dam.
Who killed the American Mid-Engined car? A car-review told as a Noir mystery film. Special thanks to Ted Stoltz for serving as our 3rd videographer.
Subaru WRX: The official car of "Bros Night Out." A turbocharged flat-banger vehicle for Going Ugly Early and knowing full-well that next year is going to be your Super-Senior year.
The '88 New Yorker: An Autobot that transforms into a dish of Werther's Originals. This car, for all its silly faults, proved the genius of Lee Iacocca.
The Honda Odyssey is the pine box that houses the corpse of The Single Life. Its a Daycare-DeLorean that can't go back in time and spread Amazing Goop on that broken condom.
There is no way to enjoy an Audi S4 within the bounds of the law. This car is stupid fast. That would be a non-issue if the car looked fast. It doesn't. An S4 looks like a WASP, in a tie, eating at Starbucks on his lunch break. You see this car and immediately forget about it. SO... you have to RRRRRGGHHH all the time to show the world that you exist. The WASP goes home, switches his ladder-dick-piercings from stainless to "Mexican-Fiesta." His Casio point-and-shoot is already on its tripod. All he has to do is long into Tumblr. Special thanks to Ted Stoltz for serving as our 3rd videographer.
2008 Scion Xb: The official car of using Fruity Loops to remix Daft Punk's "Harder Better Faster" and using the offending product in Music Theory class because the Band Director has his hands full with TOB paperwork and doesn't care what you do in his class anyway.
BMW 330Ci: The official car of "I'd like to speak to your manager." This is the car for the person who likes to say: "We can take my BMW," instead of "We can take my car."
Suzuki Bandit: A motorcycle as cheap and dirty as the bowling alley bathroom where I was conceived. This bike has a 1,250cc 4cyl engine, larger than some 4-passenger cars in the UK.
Jeep XJ, the last car to be a true bushwhacker. Driving one is an experience so saturated with nostalgia, Buzzfeed is probably writing an article about it as you're watching this.
Being a fan of the C6 is like being a fan of Superman. All you have to do is mash the go-pedal and punch "Evil-Doers." It's a four-wheeled contradiction because sports cars, by their speedy nature, are "bad" because they are made for breaking the law, but the Corvette is fully in bed with The Establishment. The C6 acts more patriotic than a senator one day after he is caught infusing glucose into his ballsack. Yet, the C6 is a rebel because you can break the speed limit. So, which side is it on? Is it classy or a criminal? Special thanks to Ted Stoltz for serving as our 3rd videographer.
The Chevy Cobalt XFE was one last hurray of cheap reliability before EVERY car manufacturer decided call EVERY model "High-End." The XFE sacrifices everything at the workbench of fuel economy. When they're done...they go in the pond. WHen I'm done with them, they do in the pond. HERE IS where they gone when I'M DONE. OH good, it's where I left it. HERE'S WheRE they GO when AHM DONE.
All dual-sports begin here. Yes, here. Not with the XT500, not with the SR500 and certainly not with the scramblers in the 70's. Modern dual sports began in 1985 with this plastic trail bike by Yamaha. And all body-modifications tell me is this: "My parents are garbage and I'll cheat on you."
Chrysler, I want to be a fan of you but you make it tough when you crank out Pow-Pow Powerwheels. And yet, this wasn't a failure. Why? Look at it. It screams MUSCLE MILK and only does preacher curls.
The Stage-2 DeLorean is the DMC we could have had if John Z. had just a few more years to get things right. Now that we're no longer star struck by stainless gull wings, we see that the DeLorean is Norma Jean, not Marilyn.
Smart Fourtwo: when a Prius isn't pretentious enough. It's a tiny car that's full of itself. When you exit this jeweler's display box, you have to re-assure everyone at the block party that, yes, it's a good car.
The SRT-4 is the souped-up version of the 2nd-Gen Neon. You're looking at the last hurrah before Chrysler stopped making small cars. Right, the Dodge Neon was one-inch longer than the base model Caravan, I know. For three years, this Neon was the 2nd fastest car Chrysler made, behind the Dodge Viper.
This bike will kill you if you don't fear and respect the crêpe-thin margin of error between orgasmic adhesion and high-siding, ass-over ladder-piercings, though your principal's front lawn.
This is the 170hp hatchback that finally bested the pompous Honda Civic Si. Ford Focus ZX3 SVT: The official car of Senior Skip Day and the churning white froth of teen apathy and the crisis that arises between individuality and conformity.
ST stands for "See Tanya? It's a family car. It's perfect for our first child. These seats hug you. We can treat ourselves. We don't have to get the base model. We can treat ourselves to the high trim. This one has navigation. It gets good mileage. Ford is really good these days. What are these dials? I don't know. They probably don't mean anything. Oh look big strong brakes! Yes, yes, this car is safe. I've sold my RX-7 like you asked... no more fast cars for me... nope. I promise. Yes. You like it? Good, let's buy it."
This is RCR's car. The first-generation Honda Fit was produced when Honda was coasting though senior year because he earned three A's in the first semester. Now it's March and he's getting lots of C's. So what if the car leaks rainwater? I'm HONDA! I'm terrific! The guidance councilor pulled Honda aside and told him ""you better get your rear in gear (guidance councilor's say this IRL) or you can say goodbye to Bucknell University!" The second generation Fits are better. They don't leak. Honda never officially admitted that the first gen-fits have horrible leakage. Dealerships have paper trails of service records showing new 1st-gen fits coming back with rainwater leakage problems caused by poor silent and in-door plastic rain barriers coming loose. Honda remains silent on this issue.
“Aspen and Volaré were introduced in 1975, but they should have been delayed a full six months. The company was hungry for cash, and this time Chrysler didn't honor the normal cycle of designing, testing, and building an automobile. The customers who bought Aspens and Volarés in 1975 were actually acting as Chrysler's development engineers. When these cars first came out, they were still in the development phase. “Looking back over the past twenty years or so, I can't think of any cars that cased more disappointment among customers than the Aspen and the Volaré. … But the Aspen and the Volaré simply weren't well-made. The engines would stall when you stepped on the gas. The brakes would fail. The hoods would fly open. Customers complained, and more than three and a half million cars were brought back to the dealers for free repairs – free to the customer, that is. Chrysler had to foot the bill.” ---Lee Iacocca, Iacocca: An Autobiography (pg. 160)
The Corvette C7 represents America's desire to be taken seriously in the eyes of Europe. This is nothing new. We've been doing it since Henry James Ex-Patted his way from coffee house to coffee house trying to capture the perfect Portrait of a Lady. The C7 goes off faster than I do when I refrain from TOUCHING MYSELF for a week. You can't see out the back because the ass of the car is higher than your head. Plus, this car is so hyped in every blog...so we'll see.
The BMW E30 is the prerequisite to "being a car guy" even more than the Mazda Miata MX5. The M42 engine was not put into E30 sedans until 1991, although it did exist in E30 318is coupes. It was in every E36, so in a lot of ways my E30 is sort of unique. This car is one of the few E30s to not have a sunroof. The point is most people weren't as cheap as the original owner who bought this car in 1991. In fact, This E30 only has one optional extra: a digital clock/temp gauge. That might have been standard in 1991. I'm not sure but it wasn't at the start of the E30. It is the cheapest E30 you could buy in 1991. The fact that it doesn't have a sunroof is sort of a subculture thing; I've heard them referred to as "slick tops". This E30 is untouched in terms of performance; as slow as BMW wanted it to be. Lots of E30s are slammed or track-day focused, but mine is stock as a rock. Still great to drive. Ask any E30 owner, maintenance is expensive and sucks. In a lot of ways, owning an E30 is like dating a super-expensive high-maintenance MILF who cheats on you and sometimes abuses you, but whom you live anyway.
The Chrysler Conquest is a grey import Mitsubishi Starion. This is a car in which you can transform yourself into that guy who tells the same story over and over at every party. "This is an American car right? Nope! Bet you thought it was! Nope! Let me tell you what it really is..." and then the girl you're talking to looks for a bass player to bang.
You ever been to Moab? You gotta take that Runner to Moab, man. Come on, you gotta get the rubber up on that slick rock over there! Sandstone! Petrified sand dunes! Black tracks as far as the eye can see! The rock is like sandpaper, and it grips the tires like a dick in a Chinese finger trap! You just don't know, man! YOU JUST DON'T KNOW UNTIL YOU'RE UP THERE.
I'm a male. I'm sorry. I want to have sex. I'm sorry. I find you attractive. I'm sorry. I drive a Subaru Forester. I sympathize with you. I'll pay for everything. I won't look at you. I will look you in the eyebrows. Look how I am behaving. See my hands? They're in my pockets. You had a bad day. I'm sorry. I know it's my fault. Everything is my fault. You are listening to member-supported Public Radio.
We revisit Bryce's Hyundai Veloster Turbo, now with a new tune and new supporting modifications. We take it on a drive around the Appalachian foothills of Pennsylvania.
What are we doing? This isn't a regular car. How can the beauty of an Aston Martin Vantage shine and dry my soggy feelings of unworthiness and envy?
My mistake. An I6 is smoother than a V6. Oops. If the Countryman is so British, the Jeep Wrangler is INSURMOUNTABLY American. It's hard not to want to dig into that V6, to take it through puddles and out into the city, out past DePaul University and its village of Big 10 transplants in yoga pants with bearded boyfriends who tweet out pictures of craft breweries. You want to just gun this thing, get the wind in your nostrils, to take in the smell of patchuli and scones and unauthorized snuggles.
The Honda Pilot is a box for Dad Jokes. I was cleaning the mirror and a dad walked by and said: "I want that so clean that I can see myself in it!" (Dad Joke provided by my good friend Tom). Also, hello to r/dadjokes!
Suzuki Hayabusa: For the straight man who lingers around a gay bar. He doesn't know why loiters by the door. Why does he do it every Saturday night? If asked why he is there, he responds with a rehearsed bellow: "If someone touches me, I'm gonna deck him!" But he doesn't leave. "This is MY neighborhood," he adds. He always wears his cleanest jeans.
This is the most dangerous car ever made and it is also a perfect expression of The Human Condition. We want to know where "The Limit" lies and damn self-preservation. This is the most dangerous car, because it is cheap, accessible, and exists in great numbers. This is opposed to a Porsche 911SC which is more dangerous in a mechanical sense but is not as accessible as the MR2.
The Honda S2000 is the Final Fantasy 6 of cars. The S2000 is the car you are to like if you want to be cool. Braggers like the S2000 because all the power lies at the top end where they never have to reach and face-facts. This car isn't as fast or powerful as everyone says it is.
The A4 is a gym teacher power-trip on wheels. You buy an A4 because you want a Subaru Outback but you don't want to look like you support organic sustainability.
This is a car for someone who wants a Hummer H2, but who also reads The Huffington Post, and folds the word "sustainability" into every conversation.
BMW out R1'ed the Yamaha R1. This BMW S1000RR is a machine for making your mother wring her hands. Look, it's a bike with the flick-ability of a 600cc with the power of a 1,000cc.
Here is the real video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vTHX... The Unites States never got the Civic Type-R. This is as close as we came. My name is Harold Slovinski. I'm on the road with this little number and, oh, erree, yea MY WIFE is at home with our buddy DAN. He's takein' good care of you don't you worry. I was in the hot tub with some gearheads and some breeews.
The Honda Civic Si is a nameplate dripping with pus and symbolism. This car has to win. This car must win because it's the Little Mac hero for all of us.
Hey HEAY we have a Cadillac CTS for our Noon-day, Lunch bunch, uppercut, with me: DJ Double Lunch! It's a car for your EX WIFE!
Christmas Special: What are we doing in this Supercar? We've come a long way in one year. A Ferrari 360 is so nice, it makes me feel like a good person. This blood-of-the-lamb car washes away my sin and makes me go to the gym. Merry Christmas!
Tiny car. Tiny turbo. Loads of fun. One way ticket. Solid alibi. Reciprocating saw. Multiple states. Cash only. Ek praat Afrikaans vandag. Ek kan wegsteek op die Kaap. Verenigde State van Amerika geld koop baie Volkswagens. Kom ons kuier. Waar is die biblioteek? Die pen is in my hand. Die boek. Die boek! Die boek. Hoeveel rand sal dit neem vir gereelde motor resensies aan ZA kom?
A car so British, it apologizes for being on time. This is a car for looking like old money. When we were filming this, a lookie-loo walked up to the Jag and us... and said: "Do you have any Grey Poupon?" For real.
The 9th-gen F-150 was a transition period for Ford and Pickups in general. The Dodge ram showed the world that a pickup can be a toy and the other manufacturers followed frantically. This is still a very 80's stuck. It boasts that it has electronic fuel-injection. OOOOH.
The Mazdaspeed 6 is the sneaky neutral predator of the Subaru WRX. Subarus should fear this car with good reason: It doesn't look fast. It doesn't look flashy. it has no reputation. Pound-for-pound it will out-class a stock WRX on tarmac. Dirt is another matter...
The Challenger is a family car. It's just a two-door Charger. It's for dads who announce to the whole living room (in an outdoor voice): "This half-time show is GAY!" But no one listened. The kids were on their iPads. Mom went to the bathroom and grandma can't hear anyway. So Dad waits about twelve measures and says it again.
Civic: How regular can you get? This is a car for banging Freshman behind the Dirt Mall. Here's what I don't get: Why does a car with independent rear suspension (good) still let a car under-steer so bad (bad).
This is the most Un-Subaru Subaru (Part 1). The SVX stands on the vanguard of unsung 90's cars. It's a flat-6, all wheel drive, low, sleek sports car... that was a commercial flop because in the 1990's Subarus were known, in America, as cars for people who ambushed you at Circuit City with petitions calling for "People Should Be Nice To Me."
This is a car for people who still want to use an Amiga computer. Go back and watch Part 1 if you didn't yet. As good as this car was, it never sold. Why would you buy this in 1992 when you could have a Corvette C4 for almost the same price? Because you have taste and you like your hot dogs with mustard and not ketchup.
This is the 7th generation, so it runs on the T230 platform with the Front-engine, Front-wheel-drive layout, using an engine similar to the one that powered the MR2 Spyder, which adds a certain poetry, since this ended up dying the same year as the MR2: In July 2004, poor sales forced Toyota to announce that the Celica and the MR2 would be discontinued in North America at the end of the 2005 model year. Of course, I'm not entirely sure its death is necessarily the fault of the car itself, so much as the economy surrounding it.
IT'S A CAR YOU CAN POOP IN! It's like getting to be your own live-in nurse! It's a car with an IMAX windshield and a college radio switchboard with a big-ass wheel attached. It's so big, you have to clear it with mission control first. Hell, it's so monolithic, the scientists from 2001 are still trying to figure out what this is and why it's here. Getting it started is like getting ready to go to the moon. All these buttons and controls, and your hands go here, and you have to press this or put your hands here. It's like trying to figure out where everything goes your first time. “Am I in yet? Are – are we bangin?"
The AE86 is the king of internet-window-shopping and message board fact battles. Raaaagh! FACT BATTLE
Weeaboo! Weeaboo! Weeaboo! Weeaboo!
Subaru finally made a WRX that looks normal and I feel like an overcast day. Subaru was always weird and full of problems. In their faults, they had individuality. Now the WRX looks like a Camry with a hood scoop. I haven't masturbated in a while. I'm going to need to do a utility-jerk if I want to get work done.
The LS400 wasn't meant to turn a profit, it was meant to draw people into the brand, to help establish the Lexus name in the marketplace. And...I mean, it worked, didn't it? Lexus quickly became the best-selling luxury nameplate in the U.S., establishing itself in the market in ways neither Mercedes nor BMW could match among your regular consumer. Even today, Lexus is a name that inspires notions of a farther-reaching legacy than it actually has. It sounds like old money when it's really noveau riche.
This 8th generation, B-body variant was resurrected from the dead in 1991 after being shelved in 1958. The Roadmaster of old was a classic of those gangster movies where fat guys with power ask when they can expect to be paid. But in 1991, the reintroduction got rid of the classic styling that made the Roadmaster such an icon in the first place. Hell, the 90s version introduced a fake wood grain finish, as if that lousy paneling would bring back nostalgia. It was like a faded hooker trying to recapture the glory days when she could charge $100 for a handjob and not get laughed out of the Cracker Barrel parking lot.
The Mazda NA Miata MX-5 debuted at the 1989 Chicago Auto Show, but it was manufactured in Hiroshima, because they've made it their mission to avoid any more bombs. It was conceived as a small roadster, and the first gen featured the 1.6 L straight four with DOHC. It sold 400,000 units from 1989-1997, which is pretty impressive when you consider that small roadsters were on the way out at the end it was released. The Alfa Romeo Spider was in production, but it was the only small roadster produced at a comparable volume, so the MX-5 filled a gaping hole in the market. In the first generation, this was a car for the kind of guy who uses the term “confirmed bachelor” to avoid addressing his sexuality in mixed company. But the Miata would grew to be the pre-cum of bro culture, with later generations serving as the full load. It was derivative of other roadsters, but that was part of its charm. It had a reverence for the classics but also an inflated sense of its own importance. It's the Kanye West of cars.
The end of an era. This is the last generation for the MR2. The story of the MR2 is the story of economical fun fighting to stay alive in a world constricted tighter each year by nanny-state safety regulations.
"A Prius is political correctness on wheels. We're in an age where it's impossible to tell the difference between someone who's genuinely offended and someone who's sarcastically ridiculing all the uptight, pearl-clutching, butt-plugged social justice warriors. It's all those moms who are unironically nodding in agreement when Chris Matthews goes on MSNBC and says it's “racist” to use the word “Chicago”. It's the same people who sign petitions to have the word “manhole” changed to “utility hole,” and use the term “metabolically challenged” to avoid offending dead people. A Prius is a peculiar kind of vehicle. It's for the Competitive Mom in everybody, the one who looks like she's simultaneously smelling a hot dump and wondering if she left the stove on. The official car of taking your shopping cart all the way back inside the Redner's instead of just using the cart station. Mom passes by the corkboard at the entrance, and wonders why the detectives haven't solved Gary Redner's murder yet."
"Drive a Grand National for long enough, and you'll find yourself in a fight outside a pub with a mustache in a 77 Chevette. But you'll win every time, because you have the righteousness of choice on your side. Maybe your left hook isn't as strong, and your haymaker isn't as wild, but dammit, you have taste. And that counts for something. An ass-kicking something. You bang like a champ because you don't know when the next time will be. And that kind of dedication means you'll never be un-bung again. Your Summit Girl will hate that she let you go, because she'll see you in a Grand National, and she'll say, “You know what? He's driving automatic, but that's a Man for All Seasons right there.” And she'll know, because she's dating a Lion In Winter. A feckless, limp-dicked, do-nothing shell of a man who doesn't know what to do with his free time in the NFL off season. It's everything right and good, and a little bit off, with the world. It's the bitter taste of a smoker's nicotine kiss, and the welcoming, cushiony pocket of her vagina. You're home now. You're slopping around in the primordial ooze. The Grand National loosens the pickle jar of human goodness. It takes you back to a past that's irretrievably but eternally present, just on the edges of your consciousness, like all good things. Capable of being called up on a drunken night. Because sometimes, you just get drunk, and sometimes you start thinking about where you come from, and sometimes you call your mom just to hear her voice. And when she asks why you called, you just say, “I have a missed call from you. But maybe it's old. My phone doesn't say.” You both know it's bull, but you both let it go, because you're a grown man, and you can't just say, “I needed to hear you, mom. I was in a Grand National today, and I can see it all. Stretched out in front of me like it happened yesterday. Playing Turtles In Time and drinking Juicy Juice out of a triangle-shaped hole you made with a can-opener ha
Honda again. The Si is all North America has. Yes, there's a Type-R coming... maybe. For now, this Civic Si stands as the gold standard by with all affordable sport economy cars measure themselves.
You want to know what "timeless" is? You want to know what a good car investment is? You want to know what an amazing interior feels like? Here's everything. Here's the first generation Acura NSX. The car that Honda didn't have to make, but did. Clarification: The PlayStation 1 was released in Japan in 1994 and 1995 in North America.
This is a car from the 90's. In the 90's station wagons were allowed to be called station wagons. In 2015 station wagons are called "crossovers" because manufacturers are fearful men won't buy their cars if they are less than 100% manly. I used to work in a camera shop and all the Dads bought Canon point-and-shoot cameras because they were called ""Powershots."" The Dads didn't want Nikons because they were called "Coolpix." Coolpix sounds like a girl's first perfume. In an age when men are injecting Synthol into their muscles, "station wagon" means ""pussy-whipped." The bros lose because the Outbacks were some of the greatest cars ever made.
How normal can you get? The official car of first promotions and hand-me downs.
This is a captured import and the bloodbag that kept Chrysler's sports car's division conscious though the early 90's rebuilding years. Goat. All this is is a Mitsubishi Eclipse, front wheel drive turbo, with a BADGE OF FREEDOM.
The CRX is a drool-fest for message-board hype and crowbar lust. This is a USDM CRX which means it is study-hall slow. But like a teal-colored Home-Ec room, you have to discover your own fun. Is it the CRX or the CR-X. And then there's the DCX-lifers who insist this isn't a Civic.
Oh, by George! Is that a Chevrolet Corvette with an automatic transmission? Indeed it is! Oh yes, to have your gears changed for you is so fancy! The cars knows what to do yes. My rectum is occupied by a roll of nickles.
This is a derivative of the motorcycle Hunter S. Thompson reviewed in his article "Song of the Sausage Creature."
This bleached warrior with a nutcracker of an engine has one purpose: embarrass anything with a Ferrari badge. Also, thank you to Matt D'Andria from http://motorator.com/ and co-host of Carcast with Adam Carrola for guest-starring in this review via Skype.
Nissan S13: The Japanese Fox Body. Today, you get a double-review. Here are two S13's from 1989. One is a USDM and the other is JDM. My cock is still on dial-up.
Again. Because robots.
Air goes round round round round and I'm going to tell you have a Wankel engine works weather you like it or not!
Every car I drive from now on will be compared to THIS.
"Stealth Wealth." That's what this car is. The Phaeton is the only car I've driven that is better at "car-ing" than a Tesla Model S.
Finally, we got a Saab! This is a ...sports ...car? Not really, it's a car with a handbrake that goes to the front wheels because Europe or some such reason. And, what's up with the electrical tape over the headlights?
The 1956 Oldsmobile Super 88 is repressed sexuality.
Even though it's better built than the CRX, smoother than the CRX, safer than the CRX ...I'd rather have a CRX. I just switched to boxer-briefs and it will take some time to adjust. Del Sol? More like Del SLOW! HUAHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE
It's not a Civic, except when it is, which isn't often (but sometimes).
The car was ordered in 1986 from 231 - Coblenz Branch in Germany and was the 1,537 car ordered from the Coblenz branch in 86. It was ordered in 172 Anthracite Gray with 071 black cloth. The option codes are 410 - electric sliding roof, 466 - central locking system, 534 - Manual antenna without radio set, 580 - manual air conditioning, 591 - green heat insulating glass with heated rear window made of single sheet safety glass, 620 - vehicle with catalyst / emission control system. You are correct about being able to order a euro car with english instruments but your particular car had the standard metric speedo originally. If it had english instruments from the factory it would have option code 461, 467, or 469. Rare it was ordered with the cat since most euros were ordered as catalyst ready since it wasn't required in Europe yet and unleaded fuel was not as common. The seat belt buzzer and warning light is not factory but is easily removed. Obviously all the outside lights are not the original euro ones. The slowest car I've ever driven next to my stock Falcon...but, oh man, I look so cool and hip driving this little Merc!
Behold! The 11th generation Thunderbird. All that "modern-retro" look that Mopar and GM are doing today began with Ford over a decade ago.
The Evo IX is, or was, the Subaru STi's natural predator. The problem comes from people thinking that EVOs are just a durable as STis... they're not.
All hail the king of the Bug Smashers! This is a light aircraft, not a car! What are we doing? This is the season finale of Season 7: The Southern Stab.
I want my 90s back. This car takes me there, if only for a moment.
Buell is the motorcycle world's AMC. This machine is from an alternate history America, like the Pontiac Fiero.
Owned by my good friend Neal. Yes, The Real Neal. This is a longer video because Neal has lots of good explanations for why the C3 is the way it is. You'll like this one!
So cute. Bubble Butt. Adorable nose. It's OK to like cars like this. It's OK to like pretty things.
Re re re re re re re uploaded something thing I had to do. Undertale Reference.
Don't drink and drive because if you do, you're part of the problem. It's okay to drink, stand in your bedroom and talk into a microphone. The Chevy Malibu is a car in which you can tell a black-guy joke. It's also a car for people who just want a car and that weird drink where they latch Corona bottle upside down to the glass at an angle. Corona Rita Margarita. Blegh. Everyone, man-up and lean to love Gin Martinis. My contacts itch.
NNGH! HRRGH! *Snorts* UGGS. hut hut HIKE!
Let me tell you about Japan!
Dodge Hellcat: a car for a guy with a huge schlong and no pick-up lines.
Ariel Atom: A car as British as a debtors' jail.
I'm Country... but I live in Emmaus.
Rollin' up up the club, girls see me flexin'. Got a dick so small, call me Micro-Aggression.
More 90s than a "Faces of Death" VHS tape.
Why can't we have small pickup trucks in the USA? Oh yea, Chicken-Tax.
A gentleman's GT car that looks best from the rear. Thank you to Ted Stoltz for helping with photography.
More hipster than a Volvo 240. This car was made in Japan but never released in Japan, making it the Star Tropics of automobiles.
"Designated ""Unsafe for Highway Use."" A E S T H E T I C"
The black sheep of the Fox Bodies.
In the engorged 1999 Dot-Com economy, this car was a high school graduation present. In 2016, the same car is still a graduation present.
When a Mercedes was a MERCEDES!
One of the cheapest Mustangs you can buy today. This is Roman's car.
Listen up all you vaping and posing Boxerbros. Your entire subculture wouldn't exist without this dopey slow wagon.
Hey kid, I'm your uncle! I work at the Deka battery factory! I'm on disability because they owe me that much. Are you 18? Want a lottery ticket? Want to buy me cigarettes? I pay off one credit card with another credit card!
So American... it's a European car!
Robert McNamara's love-letter to bean-counting.
I drove a classic Mini. I know everything about Great British-England now! I know all the U.K. Things. Here are all the facts about Britianengland: 1) UK has one main highway. It is called the A4. 2) If you don't pay your Government TV bill, thugs come to your flat and beat you up. 3) Everyone lives in flats. 4) The BBC can't afford desks for news presenters. 5) Brighton Beach only existed in Quadrophenia. 6) Their paper money has Wi-Fi 7) They like Steve McQueen way more than we do.
Oh look, Grandpa bought a C5 Corvette and he thinks it's an investment. Newsflash Pops, worms will eat your bone marrow before C5s will be worth money.
We review the 2005 Cadillac XLR and think about how this is a slumlord's idea of a "Rich Person's Car."
A Gonzo review of Germany's idea of an American Style sports car: the Porsche 928 S4.
We review a Nissan Maxima with a manual transmission. This was one of the most memorable cars I drove this year. It's fast and fun and the Double-Cam V-6 loves being revved. It's like that Roadmaster with the 6-speed stick. Suddenly the motor is set free! And now you're about to go on Craigslist and search for Nissan Maximas with 5-speeds!
We review the long-hated. Chrysler PT Cruiser. Why does car-culture hate the PT Cruiser so much? We dive into it. This is a long review but there's a lot to go over. Also there's a Joe Rogan shout out.
We review a beige every-man car: The universal $1,000 Craigslist special: The Kia Spectra.
The Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 is a review of excess. This car doesn't need to exist. No one needs it. It is reDONKulous fast.
We review one of the smaller Fords, which isn't really a Ford. The good thing is, if it weren't for this car, the Fiesta wouldn't exist today.
We review the naturally aspirated Nissan Z32 and try to find out why people were expected to buy a Z32 over a Corvette C4. The Corvette was faster and lighter. Oh but... maybe the return of Mr. Fancy can help, with special guests: Journalist and racecar driver Stef Schrader from Jalopnik. Zack Klapman From /Drive, The Smoking Tire and many other productions. Mike RedskiHusky from Vine.
Hut-two-three-four, two, two-three four! It's time to pretend we're solders of fortune and review this NOT-AMERICAN Volvo C303 military vehicle.
I've waited twenty years to drive and review KITT, the Knight Industries Two Thousand from Knight Rider.
This is a DMC DeLorean with a General Motors LS4 V8. Yes, an LS swap DeLorean is possible and here is a real one! It's fast. Too fast for it's own good.
Clap your hands. Here it is, nerds: Focus RS. Time to review this thing.
This is the Vagabond Falcon! She works! It's time to review what a 1960 Ford Falcon is like with a swapped 302 or 5.0 Windsor V8, Ford AOD trans, Explorer 8.8 rear. Thank you to Bruce Henn for making this Dream car real. Thank you to all of you who like RCR!
"We review a horrible first bike: the Yamaha R6. Gugh! If you get this as a first bike you are a Dumb-Dumb. Dummy, dum dum dum bro-dum. Ugh, you're the type of dumb that buys a motorcycle without a title and buys a helmet from the Dirt Mall."
Here's your tuner king. We review the Honda Civic ED6, also knows as the EF Hatch.
We review a Ducati 999, drink table wine from a boda bag, appropriate culture, and I talk about my dick WAY more then usual.
"We Review the last of the Ford Escorts: The ZX2. It's not quite a Focus but it is trying to show how far the Escort has come. Made a mistake with today's video. The ZX2 had a 2.0L motor, not 2.4 I'm tired of making these technical errors. I got engine displacement wrong again on the ZX2 video. The reason I make these asinine mistakes is because I speak from memory, in a ""Yea, I got this,"" way. The crazy thing about this video is that my notes clearly say: ""-2.0 L, 4-cylinder ZTEC engine, with a factory-rated 130 hp, and a top speed of around 128 mph, if it's post-apocalypse and all the roads are deserted. However, the owner says a friend of his got up to 135 on an empty road in Mexico, although he ran out of fifth gear in the process."" And what did my bird-brain do? Combine the ""2"" in ""Two Liter"" and the numeral ""4"" in ""Four Cylinder"" and barfed out ""2.4L."""
We review the over-hyped under-powered middle-child of the Porsche 944, the 944s. This hunk of self-congratulatory populism can't move under the weight of all its fanboys and white knights. The 944 is a victim of it's own fandom.
We review the forgotten Subaru Spec.B. Or is it spec.b? or is it spec.B? or is it Spec.b? Ah Subaru, you and your weird capitalization.
Thanks to Carlisle Events, Bill Miller and Mike Garland (PR Guy) we were able to review a Plymouth Horizon / Dodge Omni and it only has 26,XXX original miles!
We drive the car from the SyFi show Defiance. This is a 2013 Charger with mudder-tires and partial external roll cage. It looks amazing but drives... uh... really bad. Still it was one of the more fun days we had filming up in Centralia PA.
We review a 5th generation Corolla of the E80 series, the AE82. It is carburated, it makes seventy-ish horsepower and it's not quite as nice as a Honda Ef Hatch.
We review the weird 2016 Scion iA, which is really a Mazda 2. Why did Toyota snag a Mazda 2 and pass it off as their own? In 2017 this will be called a Toyota iA.
We drive the American Holden, a Chevrolet Caprice Police Pursuit Vehicle. It's also a Pontiac G8.
Finally, we review the loved, loathed, praised, and reviled Mustang Fox Body.
Time For Church! We drive a Buick Century that turns Saturday night into a school night because you have Sunday School tomorrow.
We drive a 1966 Cub Cadet lawn tractor into which was swapped a diesel engine which was then turbocharged. This makes for a bizarre piece of lawn and garden equipment.
This episode is fan-written. All authors are credited by their Reddit user name. All submissions were cataloged on r/regularcarreviews. Thank you to everyone who wrote this nice copy!
Hey Maaaaaaannnn, you still have your truck right? Can you help me move? We review a 2007 Ford Ranger pickup truck.
We drive the dieselgate VW Golf TDI. It's alright, not great, but not bad. A good commuter. The exhaust doesn't smell.
We drive the BMW 2002. This is the E30's Grandpa. It's one of the happiest classic cars I ever drove! Thanks to Ted Stoltz for being our 2nd photographer!
We drive a rental classic: the Chevy Lumina. General motors Airport-runner.
The Honda Civic EH2 Hatch is the car you should buy as your first car if you want an enthusiast's car that also has to be your only car.
We drive General Motor's attempt to make a PT Cruiser, the Chevy HHR. It's really a Cobalt jacked-up.
We drive the chariot for ne'er-do-wells: The 1998 Chrysler Concorde. (fixed the year, thanks)
I drive a G37. Watch my rap video.
If you parents want you to have a safe car, but you want an enthusiast's car, buy one of these, a Honda Accord Wagon with a stick-shift!
We drive the 300+ HP All-Wheel-Drive Turbo BMW 335i E92. It's quick, and I understand why BMW owners drive like dicks.
We drive a WRX STi, a car for pursuing SN95 Mustangs. You drive this car to be BETTER THAN. No one is faster than you! De Dust. RUSH B!
Edit: Sorry for misspelling and mispronouncing Coronet every time. Sorry. I have no excuse. We review one of the muscle car era greats: The Dodge Coronet 440. It is more a symbol of virility than a car.
We drive not a DeLorean. It's a VW Corrado VR6. This is the one with the weird staggered 10-degree v6 motor that is so narrow it only has one head.
I drive a Mazda MX-5. It's not a Miata anymore, I guess, but it is. It's is the only car that does slow-car-fast. Still the best.
We drive and review the Ford Explorer Police Interceptor Utility. This is naturally Aspirated and... eh it's not as fast as you might want it to be.
Hear the sordid tale of the Ford Edsel and how it failed and why.
Roman tells the tale of when Chrysler and Mercedes joined forces in the late 1990's and what happened as a result. It's an amazing tale!
The Story of James Dean and the Little Bastard Porsche
[I got the barry type wrong. Sorry] We drive North America's first production hybrid: The Honda Insight. It is also one of the few hybrids to come with a manual transmission.
We drive The Chevy Volt, better than a Prius but...uh oh!
We review a 2012 Porsche Cayman R from Fabspeed, a Porsche specialist tuning company in Pennsylvania. This car is very loud!
The greatest sports car ever made! The most ethically designed Mid-Engined machine. The MR2 is a showcase of clever parts-bin construction.
The history of Lee Iacocca, his journey from Ford to Chrysler, the government bailout, the rise of the iconic Chrysler K Platform and more.
This is a partial review of a 1983 Citroen 2CV. As an American, this was very weird!
We drive a 2003 Rover 75 in The U.K. It feels like a smaller American-ish car but with better handling. I was chuffed. Is that the right word? Chuffed.
We flew all the way to the UK to drive a Miata? Yes. We had REASONS.
The Mito isn't a Fiesta. It isn't a Abarth. What is the Alfa Romeo Mito? Style and maybe a turbo.
We drive a NOT Skyline Wagon. Raaaagh! This is a review of a Nissan Stagea, just a Stagea. Just a Stagea. Is this a meme? I have to take a big RSfour in the bowl. It's Monday.
We drive the SO 80's Ford Fiesta MKII. Us in the USA never got this car.
We review a DJM car in the UK, a Daihatsu Cuore Avanzato TR XX R4.
Meet RCR's Intern: Ben Wright. For his first review assignment, he tackles a 2010 Scion tC.
Harley Davidson: Cosplay for Dads.
Karmann Ghia, the most beautiful car we have reviewed to-date.
We drive one of the original factory sleepers: Ford Taurus SHO. With a manual transmission.
Whampa-Dampa-Damp! Put on your Panama hats and hold up traffic. It's time to review a Ford Model T.
We drive the best Ford Panther Body: The Mercury Marauder.
We drive and review Chevy's budget electric car: The Bolt.
We ride a Tomos Golden Bullett, a 2-stoke Slovenian moped popular in the USA in the 1970's and 1980's.
We drive a Shift Manager's dream: a 2007 Infiniti M35x.
We drive a Pennsylvanian built Hahn fire truck. You can also call it a pumper truck, or Fire Engine. It's the one that shoots water, as opposed to the ones with the big ladder on them (that sometimes shoot water too).
A history of the Isle of Man TT, the annual race often regarded as the deadliest in the world. From the background to the race, to the tragedies behind its most famous competitors, this new RCR Stories doc is our biggest yet.
General Motors made the Chevy II as an answer to the Ford Falcon. The Nova was its highest trim package.
We fly a 1987 Schleicher ASK21 Sailplane. No engine. Louder than you think.
We drive a 1970 Chevy Camaro with a 427 motor swapped-in.
We ride Honda's flagship motorcycle. The Gold Wing. When you need the best touring motorcycle, you get a Honda. The only thing you need to get used to is its size.
I drive an IS350. I wanna go fast but AAAAA DON'T LOOK AT ME!
We drive a classic Mustang. It's full of nostalgia from a time before our birth. This is a 1st gen Mustang. Also today is an opposite day. Roman is doing the narration and Mr. Regular is singing and rapping.
Is this monument to conspicuous consumption even relevant anymore? Cadillac Escalade, what a piece of work. What a BRAAAND.
We drive the car-nerd JDM dream: Autozam AZ-1. They are becoming Legal in America now.
Kawasaki Ninja 250: The Mazda Miata MX-5 of motorcycles
VW Golf GTI, the only automatic I ever loved.
We drive the turbocharged VTEC Civic. Only took Honda 20 years to make this. It is superior to a Focus RS in every category except performance and handling! Raaaaggh
We drive a 1st-Gen Dodge Viper from 1994 when airbags were not yet mandatory. I've been waiting to a review a Viper. This car comes from the YouTube Channel "JAIRUS OF ALL."
This is a Subaru RS with a Toyota 2JZ engine. Asking price: $150,000 USD
We drive a classic Plymouth Belvedere. A car for the mythic dad.
We drive Japan's plentiful Toyota Crown. The JDM equivalent of the Ford Panther Body.
The Toyota Century is higher than Lexus. This is (as of filming) the greatest car I have ever driven and ridden. A fantastic IGz V12.
We flew all the way to New Zealand to drive a Nissan Micra!
It's a Nissan Skyline, but it doesn't have a turbo, two doors, or street cred at all. It's still a skyline. This is a real Nissan Skyline. Skylines aren't special.
It's a Holden. We never drove a real Holden before. This is a VP Commodore. What's a Commodore?
The Falcon lived on in New Zealand and Australia. A Ford Falcon feels like a tighter and faster Ford Taurus.
I rode a Honda CB400SF along a coast road in New Zealand and it was heavenly!
Yes, another SW20, but it's tuned this time! 270hp crank; a daily tuner. This was shot in the USA but RCRNZ episodes will be back next week.
We drive and everyday New Zealand beater: a carbed Mirage Wagon. Also a car for Uncle Gary.
We drive Toyota's road-going WRC cheater turbo car: the Celica GT4 ST205.
We review a sheep. Yep. How more New Zealand can you get?
A brief history of John DeLorean, his rise through the ranks of General Motors, the creation of the DeLorean Motor Company, and the Federal case that brought the whole thing crashing down.
We drive the official car of reaction videos: Dodge Demon.
We drive the top-tier Callaway Corvette: The AeroWagon.
We review the American Holden Commodore: The Chevrolet SS. This one has the 6-speed manual transmission.
We review and drive Kia's twin turbo luxury sports sedan, the Stinger.
2007 Porsche 911 997 GT3 RS SharkWerks. A surgical scalpel of a track day car.
Stef's Mitsubishi Lancer GTS was terrifying around a track because it felt like a regular car about to have a regular crash.
We drive and review the one of the cheapest modern BMWs you can buy: the 320i.
Grab your flip-phones and AOL instillation disks! It's time to race a 1997 Buick Park Avenue!
We review a Tesla Model three and compare it to the Meme Economy and 1930's French Film.
Still running. Still smooth. Still better made. Still fast. We ride and review the eternal Honda CB750. This is the "K" model with a Vetter Windjammer.
The Pontiac Phoenix was a horrible lump of GM garbage for everyone's uncle who called Cinemax "Skinamax."
Four wheel steering! The rear wheels turn! In the 1980s we were living in the future! This is a Honda Prelude Si 4WS. [UPDATE] Yeah, the rear wheels turn in the same direction at first. It's weird, it doesn't feel like that does anything. Yeah, the car will "crabwalk" across lanes, but from the driver's perspective, it doesn't feel any different.
It's a van, and a truck. We review a Ford E350 Centurion. It's a luxury tow vehicle from the 80s.
We review a complicated 1990s forgotten DSM icon, the Dodge Stealth twin turbo.
We drive the king of Trash Class: The Camaro IROC-Z.
The last of the family Station Wagons. Buick's Estate Wagon. This one has a 350 V8.
We drive and review the largest car Subaru has made to date: The Ascent.
We drive a military truck, a M35A2 "Duce and a Half" It was built in 1970 By the General Products division of Jeep AMC. This is a civilian M35 Duce.
We review and ride Suzuki long-produced dual sport bike, the DR650.
We drive a food truck around a race track. The truck belongs to ONNIT. I know the manual says 2013, but that is a replacement manual.
Volvo 240s are too expensive now in 2018. What's a hipster to do? Get a Volvo 850.
The most affordable and accessible Falcons in the USA, the 2nd Gen Ford Falcon.
How many Emmys does Bryan Cranston have to win before the Pontiac Aztek becomes cool?
We drive and review the very pricey grand-tourer 1991 BMW 850i V12. It looks like a 3rd gen Toyota Supra.
We review the legendary fourth generation Toyota Supra twin-turbo. Why did these become so outrageously expensive? Is it all down to F&F?
Every year, on Christmas Day, we release a special review of something we wouldn't normally do: either something expensive or something weird (likely, something that isn't a car at all). This would be the latter, as The Roman tackles this year's Christmas special by traveling to Virginia to review a 1991 American Paint Horse.
We drive the Chevy K5 Blazer. Time for Squarebody Love!
We drive the not-hybrid BMW M240i X-Drive It's not an M-Car either, but if this is going to be the new Supra Engine, I'm fine with it.
My opinion of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 has changed. This is more than just a tightly-wound rageful WRX rival.
We drive the factory supercharged sleeper Buick Regal GS.
The GSX650F was a VERY-OK bike, but it was a sales flop in the USA and I'll explain why. You can also join me for Shipping Forecast snuggles.
The Gremlin was the beginning of the end for American Motor Company, the once-4th American car manufacturer. They were the Amiga of Car-Makers.
The 1977 Celica GT is everything right about 70's car culture.
Built by Corey and Justin. Corey is his correct name. I misspoke in the video of this LS Swapped Winnebago motor home.
We drive an '85 Renault Encore all the way to Cafe Le Euugh.
We learn about and drive a 1952 LP2 Bren Gun Carrier. It's a troop transport used mostly by Australian, New Zealand and British forces. The "Mainly Military Museum" in Featherston, New Zealand let us drive it around the lot. The curator, Steven, is a great guy! Thanks.
That's one log name. We drive a Chevy Duramax. RCR doen't do enough trucks.
We drive this overpriced rich-punk hatch. UGH... whatever, it's a Golf R.
Ten years have passed since Cash For Clunkers. In the latest RCR Stories, Roman digs in to the program's history, why it failed, and why so many people hated it then -- and now.
We drive the butterfly door-ed trendy commuter car from early 90's Japan. TL;DR The Toyota Sera is a Toyota Tercel.
It's not an SS. There are no SS Novas. All super sport Novas are fake. We drive and review a fake Chevy Nova SS
The Roman finally reviews something other than a Ford -- a Jaguar...from the period when they were owned by Ford. The more things change...
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The Roman reviews his aunt's 2004 Chevy Tracker ZR-2, a Geo classic turned into a Chevrolet off-roader, through the lens of Automotive Humanism. Stay tuned to the end to witness an RCR first, as things go sideways in a hurry.
We drive the 2ZZ poered Toyota Matrix XRS. It has flaws but it still was a contender for the Civic Si market share.
Manual sedans are still made! Here's a base model Impreza sedan with a stick shift keeping the dream on the 1990's alive!
It's a luxury sports coupe! If Chrysler say so, it's so! It's full of black plastic and powered by an engine that MAKES NOISE. It's a hand me down special.
We review Toyota's attempt to make a Ford Raptor with the Tacoma TRD PRo.
We drive a Chrysler TC by Maserati. It's not a LeBarron. I'll tell you five times without you asking. "It's not a LeBarron!" It's a Maserati. My collector commemorative deluxe serving plate collection will be worth something some day!
We review the final Buick Skylark with GM's first in-house DOHC 4-Cyl engine mounted in this Budget-Luxury Sport-Coupe.
Few cars live up to video game hype, but the Peugeot 205 GTI does. Big thanks to @thosedrones from https://www.artfightpodcast.com/ for providing the drone footage
The Honda Accord V6 Manual is known in car circles only as "The 6MT"
We review and drive one of British Leyland's best exports: The TR6
The Mazda 3 is a car for people who think they're too cool for a Toyota Corolla.
We drive and review the once cheapest new car in the world: The Tate Nano. What is one of these doing in the USA?
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Glorious 1997 Toyota Tercel, the intersection of maximum technology and minimum weight.
We drive and review VW's diesel electric hybrid that never made it into full production.
We drive one of the most fuel-inefficient cars ever made: The 1962 Buick LeSabre with a 1-speed Dynaflow transmission.
We drive and review the rotary powered Mazda RX-7 Second generation FB in Toronto.
The 4th generation Honda Prelude is my favorite Prelude. This one is in rough shape but it's still very fun to drive!
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We drive and review a stock Ford Fairmont. It doesn't even have an LS engine!
We ride the eternal Suzuki SV650. This bike is the Scion FRS of the bike world. A step-up from the Miata MX-5
We drive a vintage Volkswagen Beetle and discover that if you don't think of it as "car," it's really not a bad car!
We drive the groundbreaking Datsun 240Z or Nissan S30. If it weren't for the Datsun 240Z, the import scene in the USA wouldn't exist in the same form as it is now.
We set sail in this nearly 5,000 lb Chrysler Imperial. A leading luxury car of the pre-smog era of American Motoring.
This week, we review the 1999 Oldsmobile Alero, the last gasp for one of GM's most storied brands.
We drive the Honda Beat and discover that it will ruin cars for you forever. This is the closest any vehicle has come to matching the feel of an Airal Atom.
We drive a 1993 Dodge Shadow, the staple of every High School parking lot in 1999.
We drive one of the few North American Utes: the Subaru Baja! This one is lifted with big tires.
Finally, we get our hands on a Chrysler K-Car. This is Plymouth Reliant K Wagon. It is almost identical to a Dodge Aries. It s GLORIOUS!
We drive a JDM classic, the high-boost, lightweight, tiny, Nissan Pulsar GIT-R
The Mercury Mariner is the worst car I've driven in 2019. It is as if Ford didn't care.
A special RCR video essay on the nature of car meets, the culture they cultivate, and the benefits of going to a type of event that sometimes gets a bad rap.
In the latest installment of RCR Stories, The Roman revisits The Tale of the Dale with more detailed information about the legendary automotive scandal involving a mysterious businesswoman, an optimistic inventor, a three-wheeled yellow car, and crimes ranging from fraud to murder. It's a wild ride, but well worth taking. Side note: This WILL be posted as a podcast in a few days. Hope you enjoy it
A look into the life of Pontiac, and the decisions that led to its death. What made Pontiac so important to automotive history? And what lessons can be learned from its demise? It's an all-new RCR Stories!
This week, a special look into the trend of angry-looking cars. Why did this become standard? Why are these designs so popular? And why do they inspire such strong reactions, both positive and negative?
We review the 5-speed Manual Corolla S. The perfect car to enjoying a daily stick shift that is also economical. Take our advice, get this for your first car.
We drive the toughest hatch around: The Toyota Yaris. Also called the Vitz.
We drive a comfortable smooth sedan for Great-Aunt Medication: The Volvo S80.
We drive an all-wheel-drive Porsche 911 with snow tires.
We drive Suzuki Cappuccino, a 660cc 3-cyl turbocharged micro-sports car and it is cute and zippy!
We drive the poor-person's G-Wagon: The Jeep Commander.
We drive and review Honda's bizarre boxy SUV: The Element.
We drive a Ferrari 575M. It's a bruiser of an exotic provided https://www.classicpromenade.com
We drive the 5th generation Subaru Forester. It's more vanilla than puritan ice cream.
We drive a mid-engined hipster minivan: The Toyota Previa
We ride and review the Honda CB900. One of the last big-dollar air-cooled fours from Honda.
We drive a first-year Corvette C1. This is serial number #87, provided by Classic Promenade https://www.classicpromenade.com/
We drive GM's rebadged Opel Insignia: The Buick Regal TourX. It's a "lifestyle wagon."
The Mazda 626 is a bland family sedan that needs premium fuel.
We drive the four cylinder turbo Mustang. We would it a pure example of a modern sports car, but it has some insipid tech.
We drive a stretched version of a 2007 Lincoln Town Car called The Executive L
We reach Peak Brown with the 1972 AMC Ambassador Brougham. So man variants of BROWN
We drive a pristine vintage B-Series VTEC powered rocket: The Acura Integra Type-R
Honda put a turbo on a V-Twin motorcycle and the CX650T: the most daring motorcycle in the modern world.
We drive the first production mid-engine Corvette: The C8. It lives up to the hype. Point Of View Drive here https://youtu.be/1x-7fxLCybs
Oughtstalga or Aughtstalga is nostalga for 2000-2009. We drive the BMW E46 M3 and find out what it's about.
This is a Ford F-350 V10 attached to which is a Host Mammoth Truck Bed Camper
The Cadillac ATS-V should have been called a Chevy Chevelle
Edit: This isn't how and IDI works. An IDI injector squirts into a little round nub like the tip of a condom where fuel and air get to 2nd Base before nutting in the main combustion chamber. This is the old-school analog way of controlling swirl/mix/combustion location. Modern Direct-Injection diesels don't have a per-ignition chamber/condom nub. The computer does everything.
We drive Hyundai's sleeper: The Elantra GT N Line. Is it N Line? Or, N-Line?
Chevrolet's failed attempt to market a instant collectable car. The Chevrolet Monte Carlo Dale Earnhardt Jr. Supercharged SS.
The 2nd generation MX-5 Miata is the best of the bestestst at besting the best of road best.
We drive the backbone of American small business: The Chevy Express Van. It is more valuable to local economies than pickup trucks.
My Corvette is Best Corvette because Me Me Big Boy!
The Land Cruiser is the best SUV you can buy, and no one cares.
We drive one of the greatest cruisers in automotive history: the Ford Galaxie and I struggle with contextual guilt.
The AMC Pacer was the feel-good car from the 1970's. Party on. Yes, this is the same kind of car from Wayne's World aka Mirthmobile. [EDIT] This Pacer actually had the 258 and not the 232.
Mitsubishi Delicas are for people who do anything to be cool.
We drive the 455hp 6-speed manual Chevy Camaro. It's a Corvette for people who hate that the Corvette is now mid-engined.
We drive a surprisingly affordable classic Rolls Royce.
I know it’s a Subaru. It doesn’t look like a Subaru. It looks like a Suzuki Swift. The entire time I was filming this I kept referring to it as a Suzuki even though I knew it wasn’t one. I kept saying Suzuki. It’s maddening— it drives me nuts. As I was writing the narrative, I knew it’s a Subaru. But I kept saying Suzuki. I know it was a Subaru when I made the title card but I wrote Suzuki. This car is a test of wills. "But, it doesn't look like a Subaru." said my eyes. "It's a Subaru," I reiterated. "It doesn't sound like a Subaru," said my ears. "It's a Subaru." "It doesn't feel like a Subaru," said my butt. "It's a Subaru." "It doesn't have a longitudinal boxer engine. It has a transverse four. It is front-wheel drive. The roof comes apart just like a Suzuki Cappuccino. It is short and stubby. This is a Suzuki product." "NO! It's a SUBARU. Say the word SUBARU." "...Imma say Suzuki"
This Toyota Levin JDM sports coupe answers the question: "What if Toyota built a Honda Prelude?"
We drive the over-hyped, romanticized Plymouth Cuda. It's not a Barracuda. It's a 'Cuda and the muscle car bubble has burst long ago.
We ride the Honda CM450C motorcycle , a middle weight general purpose bike based on a 250 frame.
Re-Uploaded to remove the oil error. The 2020 Ford Ranger drives like a Ford Flex or big Ford Focus.
We fly the Cessna 150. It's the Chevy Cavalier of the skies.
We drive a Dodge Cummins Pickup. No one cares.
A look into the scandal that changed Volkswagen forever, and the family feud at the heart of it all.
This week, a Regular Car Reviews special report. Now, I HOPED I'd never have to make this video. You see, last year, I did an RCR Stories on the history of Cash For Clunkers, and how it ended up being a terrible idea, not just for the auto industry but for the used car market. And now, the word is that it could be coming back? What could this mean for the cars we love? The cars we have? And the cars we might want to buy someday? In a special RCR report, I take a look into who's in favor of another Cash For Clunkers program, what types of incentives could be offered for used cars, and why it's still probably not the best idea for saving the economy, much less the auto industry.
You really can't talk about the history of the Corvette without discussing a towering name in the legacy of automotive design: Mr. Harley J. Earl. This is the man who would not only design the Corvette, but shape the narrative surrounding it in its early years as a cutting edge accomplishment in American sports cars and automotive design. And it fits. Harley Earl is the quintessential example of the American Dream, writ large. This is about more than just cars. This is about the many fathers of success, and the many struggles that must be endured to see it realized. This is RCR Stories: Harley Earl and the Birth of the Corvette.
With the Corvette in the 80s, you would think we'd get a full-scale push for greater technological advancement. And we did – but on a bit of a delay. You see, with the intended departure of the C3 in 1982, it was expected we'd get an imminent announcement on the next generation. But some unexpected events led to something no one could have anticipated. For the 30th anniversary year for one of the most important American cars ever made...there would be nothing to show released. So let's dive in and explore a curious footnote in automotive history, as 1983 became the year without a Corvette.
The march to a mid-engine Corvette has been long in the making. I'm talking a good sixty years. And it's always the same story: a mid-engine Corvette is planned, it almost happens, and then it gets cut off at the knees for any number of reasons, both controllable and unmanageable. Racing bans, bankruptcies, internal opposition, engineering logistics and mechanical limitations. For as many times as the Corvette has almost been killed, only to be saved at the last moment, the inverse is true of the mid-engine variant: a dream nearly realized – but ultimately curtailed. But what changed? Welcome to the conclusion of the RCR Stories Corvette Trilogy: The March To Mid-Engine.
Everybody loves a Ferrari, right? But not everyone can afford a Ferrari. So what happens when a con artist airline pilot decides to steal an ultra-rare Ferrari F50 from a Pennsylvania dealership? Join us for a story about a Ferrari heist gone wrong, and a criminal investigation gone worse. It's the tale of The Algar Ferrari Heist.
Yawn. Hyundai Equus.
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Toyota Tundra is the full sized truck that everyone tells you to get.
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The Oldsmobile Bravada is, for real, the WORST car we have ever driven. It offers so much, and delivers so little.
We drive the big booty Toyota Camry Wagon from 1993
The BMW X5 Diesel is a bourgeoisie car we reviewed.
We drive the Tesla Model Y and talk about price to earnings ratio of Te$la Stock.
It's a factory manual transmission Dodge Caravan!
We drive the best Dollar-for-Horsepower car you can buy: Dodge Charger Scat Pack, and send it on a snow-covered road.
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This is the complete edition of the RCR Stories on the fast life and tragic death of automotive legend Mickey Thompson, whose horrifying murder was a grim coda to one of the most celebrated figures in all of car culture. Who was Mickey Thompson? Why was he so revered? Who was ultimately put on trial for his death? Originally released in installments over on the main channel, this is the omnibus that collects the five different parts into one engaging whole.
Is the 2004 Volvo V70 the worst Swedish car of the 2000s, or is it a solid offering from a brand partnered with an American automaker? The Roman searches for answers on this week's Race to the Bottom, as the 2004 Volvo V70 might just be one of the most perplexing cars ever featured on Regular Car Reviews. Join us for a test drive, a history lesson, and a critique as we try and understand what the appeal of this car is, and why it continues to endure on the used car market.
This week on Regular Car Reviews, Brian drives the MotorTrend Truck of the Year 2024, the 2024 Chevrolet Colorado Z71! Is this the best General Motors truck of the decade? Has Chevy outdone themselves this time? Or is the Chevy Colorado overrated? We dive deep into whether GM has created one of the best pickup trucks of its time, and whether or not pickup trucks have an identity problem. As always, we'll take it for a test drive, offer our honest critique, and go over all the positives and negatives of the Chevrolet Colorado Z71 in classic RCR fashion.
Did Dodge make the most underrated SUV of all-time with the 2018 Dodge Durango SRT? Or is this just a Dodge Charger trying to pass as an SUV? On this week's Regular Car Reviews, it's a Race To the Bottom as Roman tries to figure out whether this is a car worth driving, and if Stellantis is truly capable of making a satisfying SUV in the modern era.
There’s something to be said for tasteful restraint. This is that one member of a group project who never does more than precisely the amount of work he has to. Not because he’s lazy, but because that’s not what he signed up for. The Berlina could probably have been more powerful, more aerodynamic, and more luxurious. But that’s not what it sets out to do. It’s here to make the point that there are few things more impressive than general competence.
This Hyundai Ioniq 6 is the savior of sedans, because that's all this is. It's a comfortable sedan like we used to have in the 1990's. A Sedan is all the Ioniq 6 is trying to be. It's not trying to be a crossover, or an all-rounder. This car says: "I have the money to have a truck for dirty work, and a nice clean sedan for around town."
Why can't we have an Astra OPC in the USA? This was from Australia was wonderful! I loved it! Could you imagine if the Chevy Cruze was made by serious people?
It feels like an oversight that Regular Car Reviews has never before reviewed a 2011 Chrysler Town & Country, one of the worst vans ever produced. But that makes it a perfect fit for Race to the Bottom, as Roman takes a deep dive into who this van is for, why it was so important for Chrysler, and what some of its redeeming features are. Join us to see if the 2011 Chrysler Town & Country can unseat the reigning champion Nissan Sentra!
We flew from Philadelphia to Melbourne, Australia to film cool cars, but behind (and in front) of all those cool cars, was a humble Ford Falcon XF wagon, own by our friend Matto. This is that car's story! GO BIRDS
The Chevy Biscayne was a car for people who let life pass them by. "Well, Francis... you gave life your best shot but all the little opportunities you had, you waved-off over the past 50 years. You could have joined that community beautification group, but you didn't because "what's the point?" The point was the owner O'Leary Trucking and Logistics is also a member and was looking for someone with your skill set, oops. You could have taken that free calisthenics and, not only leaned how basic exercise would make your knees and back last longer, but also have met the school's guidance councilor there and that would have gotten preferential treatment for little Billy, giving him extra time to finish his math tests, better grades and confidence, which would have lead to scholarships. But you didn't do that, because "what's the point?"
The 1993 Mercury Sable was a car for the dawning digital age, offering just enough technology to benefit its drivers, but not so much technology that it became intrusive. But the Mercury Sable has gone largely forgotten in automotive history. Why is the Sable the last great Mercury? Why is it overlooked? What are its biggest shortcomings? Regular Car Reviews is back with a deep dive on the 1993 Mercury Sable!
For the first time in the history of RCR, we've found a car that we literally cannot drive. But the 1962 Nash Metropolitan is still getting the Race to the Bottom treatment, as Roman goes in-depth on the history of America's first subcompact, and the unusual promotional strategy of the company behind it. Is the Nash Metropolitan one of the forgotten gems of automotive history, or rightly lost to the ages? How did the Nash Metropolitan influence the automotive industry in the decades that followed? And what can this car tell us about ourselves?
On this week’s Regular Car Reviews, Brian drives a 1997 Ford Probe GT to see how a Ford drives when it’s really a Mazda. What is the history behind this almost-Mustang? Was the collaboration between Ford and Mazda a stroke of genius or a painfully mismatched pairing? How does the Ford Probe GT stack up against its competitors? And how does it hold up to modern scrutiny? It’s a new RCR on the 1997 Ford Probe GT!
The 2005 Ford Excursion Limited is a full-size SUV, and an even bigger pain in the neck. But is it the winner of the Race to the Bottom? Or is it more than meets the eye? Roman goes all-in on the Ford Excursion, from its history to its symbolism, how the SUV is the perfect encapsulation of human nature, and why this was the hardest review in the history of RCR.
Is the 1973 Dodge Polara Wagon the most underrated classic car of its time? This week on Regular Car Reviews, Brian drives a restored police wagon and investigates why this car was so popular for its time, and why it fell off as quickly as it did.
Is a 2006 Hyundai Elantra worth more than $500? Probably. But this one wasn’t! On this week’s Regular Car Reviews, Brian drives a Hyundai Elantra that cost less than a Playstation 5, and gives his thoughts on an experience that’s going to take many, MANY more words to properly describe.
Is the 2015 Chevrolet Impala Limited the ultimate getaway car? What makes this a secret sleeper, and what makes you want to roll your eyes and curse General Motors under your breath? It’s time to give the 2015 Chevy Impala Limited the RCR treatment.
The Volkswagen Vanagon T3 Westfalia is more than just a regular car. So it's fitting that we take an approach to a vehicle that has offered a different experience than any car, motorcycle, truck or van we've ever done for Regular Car Reviews. Sure, RCR has done plenty of weird car reviews, and plenty of sentimental car reviews. But nothing like this piece of rolling romanticism, a van that's a poem to nostalgia, and to the ways in which cars can shape us. Because a car is almost like art. And the Volkswagen Vanagon T3 Westfalia is almost like home. This is the Regular Car Reviews 2020 Special: a look into the history of a camper van that aspired to be more than the family vehicle, more than an automotive footnote, and more than just a memory. Enjoy. Produced by Visual Inclination (@visinc http://www.visinc.ca) Thank you to MaxShine Detailing for sponsoring this episode http://www.maxshinecarcare.com