If you caught yesterday’s Truth vs. Fiends, you may recall our dear Loverman openly pondering as to whether or not Detroit will still be standing come January. It looks like yet another major automaker has jumped ship on next year’s auto show. Mitsubishi just announced that it has no plans to install a booth at [...]
Eat this, Ken Block! In today’s podcast, Lieberman and I were talking about the forthcoming Brabus tuned Smart car, and I mentioned having seen some vids of insane Hayabusa powered Smart cars. I appreciate that Hayabusa is the “go to” engine for making a total monster out of your light car, motorbike, ATV, Ariel Atom, [...]
If you’re not familiar with the legendary Suzuki Samurai, this headline might lead you to believe I’ve been huffing oven cleaner in a camping tent. I have, but that’s beside the point. The Suzuki Samurai is one of the best budget off-roaders in the history of time. With a wheelbase of about 6 inches, it’s [...]
We’re big fans of Suzuki’s SX4. All wheel drive performance for an absolute rock-bottom price tag and serious WRC cred make for an undeniable combination. Suzuki rolled out a few SX4’s for this year’s SEMA, including the turbo version you see up top. The company folks at the booth didn’t feel like dishing any specs [...]
Those lucky dogs over at 0-60 are schmoozing it up over in ole Pari as we speak. That’s cool. We don’t like intercontinental plane rides anyway. Honest. Lucky for us, the miracle of the interweb makes it like we’re right there, soaking up all the shiny we possibly can. Our pals at 0-60 have been [...]
You know what’s not easy? Figuring out what the hell fully camo’d cars are. At various times Levy and I were ready to pronounce the above Suzuki he shot on his way into work this morning, a WRX, Altima and Jetta. But, it’s the soon to be released Kizashi, Suzuki’s attempt to break into the [...]
It seems like every time we turn around the WRC’s good name is getting dragged through the mud, and not in the way McCrae would have approved. Plenty of cars have tried to capitalize on the underground enthusiasm for rally here in the states, and some, like the respectable Subaru WRX and the billy-bad WRX [...]
Recently we were enjoying some red champagne on Ford’s dime when one of our colleague’s mentioned a few harrowing days he spent in a Smart Car. One lady in a big Mercedes leaned out her window and asked, “Do you love it?” Well, our pal in fact didn’t. And he told her as much. Then [...]
A Swift? On AutoFiends? Yes, and bear with us. Sure, you’re not going to blow the doors off a Ferrari with its 1.3 liter diesel engine. And maybe you’d be right in assuming that this car would probably win the Tiger Beat magazine award for “cutest car ever.” But we choose to look beyond [...]
You should care about the Suzuki SX4 Sport. Especially if your budget is around $15,000 and you want the vehicle dynamics that you just can’t have without spending another five grand. Starting at $14,770, the SX4 Sport could well be the cheapest car with a sporting bone in its body.
And it’s got more than just [...]
