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Car Reviews - We Drive, We Play Car Critic. We Keep Our Day Job:
2013 Volkswagen Passat 2.5 SE and TDI - Volkswagen Evidently Has Not Read Sun Tzu 2013 Lexus IS250 - Lexus Invites Me to Drive Their 2013 Lineup, Then Pays Me $75 To Go Away 1987 Buick Grand National - A Driving and Ownership Retrospective On Buick's Legendary Flyer 2013 Kia Sorento - 12,000 Miles in a Nice V6 SUV 2013 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe - Tougher, Cooler and Faster Than We've Ever Been 2013 Subaru Outback - A Big Fish - Actually About The Only Fish - In a Small Pond 2013 Buick Regal Turbo - The Words Buick, Regal and Turbo Are Together Again - Improbably 2013 Kia Sportage LX AWD - Funky Style Comes at an Unacceptable Cost 2013 Volkswagen Golf R - Voodoo Economics: More GTI Goodness For Lots More Cash. 2013 Cadillac ATS 2.0 Turbo - First Generation Cadillac Alpha Platform Hits a Solid Triple 2012 Dodge Challenger SRT-8 - It's The End of The World As We Know It. And I Feel Fine. 2013 Ford Focus ST - A Long Awaited Drive in Ford's 2013 Focus ST 2013 Scion FR-S - The Good News & The Bad News? It's Uncompromised 2013 Volkswagen GTI - VW Channels My Inner Jackie & Martha Stewart and We Love VW Again 2013 Honda Accord Sport - Short Take: Honda Leaps Back to the Head of the Mid-Size Class 2014 Subaru Forester - Short Take: A Value Priced, Competent and Spacious CUV 2013 Hyundai Sonata - Short Take: A Sexy Body Doesn't Translate Into Good Times In The Boudoir 2013 Subaru Legacy 2.5i - Short Take: A Nice AWD Sedan In Need of Better Tires and Shocks 2013 Ford Taurus SEL - Short Take: America Doesn't Love Taurus Because It's Not Very Good 2013 Mazda CX-5 - Short Take: All Drivers Bow To Hiroshima. Mazda Is Your Friend 2013 Ford Focus SE - Short Take: Ford's Globalization Efforts Produce a Little Ripper 2013 Dodge Dart Rallye - Short Take: MoPar Hits A Solid Double, But No 340 GT Option 2013 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Sportwagon - Short Take: Who Knew Burning Oil Was Fun? 2013 Ford CMax Hybrid - Short Take: Gyrhead Admits to a Love Of Dweeby People Haulers. 2013 Buick Verano Turbo - Short Take: Buick's New Performance Car. Wait, It Isn't A Performance Car 2013 Cadillac XTS AWD - Short Take: A Big Car In Search Of Buyers 2013 Ford Mustang GT California Special - Short Take: Psst, It's Even Better Than You Read! 2013 Toyota Corolla- Short Take: ZZZZZZzzzzz 2005 Dodge SRT-4: Tommy C. Your Car Has Arrived - MoPar Builds A Cuddly Butt Kicker! 2005 Pontiac GTO - Is It Worthy Of The GTO Name?- We Think So, So Should You!
Customers and Friends Rides:
1967 Chevrolet Camaro L-72 427 - A Tuxedo Black 4 Speed Terror The Real McCoy - There Are Many Z/28 Clones, But This Isn't One Of Them! Swedish 1970 GTO - Scandinavian Passion For American Muscle Runs Deep 1966 Oldsmobile 442 Tri-Power - We All Have A "Coulda, Shoulda" Story. Fred Hall Made It Happen! One of Six! - Bobby Spedale's AMAZING 1969 Mustang GT Convertible 428CJ 427 - 3 Of The Most Fearsome Numbers In The Auto Industry, and Mike Gilon's SS427 Impala 1971 Chevy Monte Carlo - Modern Technology and a Guy That Just Can't Sit Still 1971 Camaro Z/28 - Body in White, But We're Green With Envy 1976 Cosworth Vega - 91 Original Miles! - A Once In A Lifetime Find, Courtesy of A Mopar Guy. 1969 Cougar 428SCJ - All Business - Joe Valenti's 1969 428SCJ Cougar 1967 Cougar GT390 - Retro Groove - Chris Aho's 1967 GT390 1926 Locomobile Junior 8 "Crate Engine" - We Find An Old Engine, Jay Leno Buys It NASCAR Aero Warriors! - Stuart Weeman's 426 Hemi Superbird and Boss 429 Torino King Cobra!
Original Essays (In Which Gyrhead Gets All Artsy):
Love and Hate on Route 13 - Dodge Stratus, I Think I Love You. Lies, Damned Lies and Classified Ads - Buying A Collector Car Shouldn't Be This Hard Dreams Of A New Project. Or Not - Gyrhead Goes Looking For A New Project. It Doesn't Look Good. The Return Of A Simple American Pleasure - The Arrival of the New Cars Used to Be Fun. Still Is.. Divorce Is So Hard - Evidently, Its The Cars That Suffer Most Carb Theory - It Sucks. No, Really Detroit Kicks Ass - 9 Good Reasons Why Gyrhead Loves the Motor City KTM Builds a Custom Motorcycle Just for Me - An Average Guy Finds 200 XC-w Bespoke Excellence VW's Campaign For World Dominance - And Why We're Conscientious Objectors With Sidepipes, No One Can Hear You Scream - We Visit Factory 5 Racing. We Go Fast. We Want One. We Lower Our Expectations - And Succeed Magnificently - Sometimes, Less Is More Maybe Some People Shouldn't Drive. - Is Driving a Right, or a Privilege? An Old Dog Learns A New Trick - Fun With Six Cylinders and Boost Got Soul? - We Get Soul, and It's Superbad! Bright Lights, Dim Bulbs - Please Turn Off Your Fog Lights A Nutmeg State - We Love Connecticut, Except For Its Roads! The Birth of a Gyrhead - What Was Your Moment? OMG, OMG, OMG! - Two Wheels, 50+ Horsepower, 240 Pounds - Spooky Wheelie Time Ashes to Ashes, 340 Duster to Dust - Or, "Why We Learned to Hate Blue Tarps" Moto-Darwinism - Why Darwin Was Right About These 4 Great Cars So Long Old Friends - Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Mercury Are Gone. Its Sad. In Appreciation of Bridges - Why Bridges Are Really Cool, Seriously What's Up With Toyota? - Why's Everybody Always Picking On Me? A Buick You Can Love, If You Don't Own White Shoes - A Buick For The Under 85 Crowd America's Peculiar Love Affair With Pickups - Pickup Trucks Kick Ass Cadillac – The Swagger is Back - It's Been A While, But Look Out - Caddy is Cool Again
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