Seasons greetings from the Autofiends crew.

OK, so this isn’t the first Subaru/VW mash up we’ve seen. I recollect a particularly tasty Pleiades-powered 914 that made the rounds in the metal rags not too long ago, but that car pales in execution to this wee beastie. It’s a Beetle with the heart of a WRX STI built to run on 86 [...]

There’s been a lot of talk about whether Ken Block could stand up against world rally champ 40 times over, Sebastien Loeb. Most of verdicts say Block is nothing more than a showman – good for gymkhana displays of car control and little else. Thing is, when the guy isn’t pimping DC Shoes like they’ll [...]

If you had to pick two vehicles to play with in the back woods of Maine, which would you go with? Ok, let’s pull a Unimog off of the list. Now what would you go with? Odds are, most of you are thinking along the SVT Raptor lines, but if you were on the staff [...]

It’s no secret I don’t mind spending a little time behind a wrench. In fact, the majority of my fleet is made up of vehicles constructed, owned, driven and given up for dead long before I even took my first breath in this world. I won’t go into the mental disorders that move one to [...]

Odds are I don’t need to remind you what day of the week it is. And while for the most of us that means burnt coffee, annoying coworkers and aggravating bosses, that also means there’s a piping-hot episode of RoundAbout fresh from the oven. This week, Michelle Naranjo, Eric Trytko and Craig Cole discuss stories [...]

Get excited, Fiends. The votes have been handed down and tallied up for the Internet Car and Truck of the Year finalists. A total of 5 cars and 4 trucks/SUVs have passed muster as chosen by the public at large and the auto scribe jurors (including yours truly). Did your favorite ride make the cut? [...]

Few things piss me off quicker than having someone pass me on the right while there’s an open lane on my left. As someone who spent quite a bit of my vagrant youth tearing ass through the hills, dales and interestates of Virginia, I know exactly what can happen when you sneak up on someone [...]

It’s been way too long since we featured a little open-wheel glory here on Autofiends. To rectify that situation, I give you the Caterham CSR 175. Designed to be the most accessible – and sane – of the company’s CSR line, there’s a 175 horsepower, 2.3-liter Duratec four-cylinder. What, you aren’t bowled over by the [...]

Well, fiends, it’s finally here. Lexus yanked the sheets off of its much spy-shot LFA for the first time in Tokyo and it’s better than we could have imagined. First, there’s a 4.8-liter V10 with 552 horsepower and 354 lb-ft of torque that revs to a cloud-licking 9,000 rpm. Just sit for a second and [...]