Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Unhinged: The Fastest Dealership Vehicle Purchase We’ve Ever Seen (That Didn’t Require A Suitcase Full Of Cash)
My in-laws have been hem-hawing around the issue of a new vehicle for a few years now. It’s not like they don’t need one…between the two of them, there is a 1997 Tahoe that...
Classic YouTube: It’s Big, It’s Brown, And It Hauls! It’s A 700-horse Caprice Wagon!
If you want to see one car that Brian, Chad and I would all agree on, this slightly ragged-looking 1980s Chevy Caprice wagon would be a great choice. For Chad, it’s a Chevy wagon. For Brian,...
Ebay Find: A 158-mile Old 1982 Oldsmoble Omega – The Car Has Pretty Much Sat For 33 Years And The Plastics STILL Fell Apart!
I’ve said it before on these pages and I’ll say it again: the front-wheel-drive Oldsmobile Omega just might be the most pointless vehicle ever produced. Born as one of the RWD X-car four...
Don’t Want A Sand Drag Bike But Want The Wind In Your Helmet? How About ATV Sand Drags?
It’s only logical: someone had an ATV and loved to race it. They saw sand drags and thought, “Hey, you know what would be cool?” and the next thing anybody knew, a sociopathic...
It’s Official: UK Buyers Want The 5.0 Mustang! Here’s How The Sales Broke Down…
The amount of speculation on how the United Kingdom would take to fully legal, imported Ford Mustangs was immediate grounds for speculation. Some said that they simply wouldn’t move like Ford...
The Bugatti EB110 SS: The Forgotten Supercar That Has Somehow Aged Very Well
When the Bugatti EB110 first appeared in 1991, I couldn’t stomach it’s looks. I was eight years old, too, and I did not know about things like it’s four-wheel-drive system,...
The 2016 Porsche Cayman GT4: The Car That Is Causing Porsche Purists To Scream In Anger
I love Porsche purists. They make Mopar freaks seem tame and normal by comparison. They have memorized every single possible model of the vaunted 911…hell, they don’t refer to the cars as...
It’s A Race And A Comedy Show When The LSX Willys Takes On This Terminator Mustang
If you know that you are beaten before the fight has even begun, there are a few ways to lessen the damage. One of those methods is through humor…laughter has the ability to cross over lines...
This Suzuki Hayabusa Is Turbocharged…Because A Stock Hayabusa Is Just Not Enough, Right?
The word Hayabusa is the Japanese word for the Peregrine Falcon, which is fitting that the super bike that was fast enough to panic both the Japanese and European manufacturers about a possible ban...
This Restomodded Mazda RX-3 Is A Fun Little Screamer! Good Looks And That Rotary Noise…
Mazda’s RX-3 is like the early Toyota Celica: they look like a miniaturized Japanese take on an American muscle car. Powered by the 12A 1.2L Wankel rotary engine, they were the most popular...
This Suburban Blurs The Line Between Mudding And Swimming – Was That A Fish That Just Brushed Your Leg?
Where does one draw the line between mudding and a sunken truck? Is it when the bumper dips below the water line? Maybe it is when tire motion is only noticeable by ripples along the surface of the...
IndyCar Driver Justin Wilson In A Coma After A Major Crash At Pocono
IndyCar driver Justin Wilson is in a coma after a massive accident at yesterday’s Pocono, when he was struck in the head by the nosecone of Sage Karam’s wrecked Indy car at speed, which...
Zero The Hero: Toyota Mirai FCV Is Run Through Rally Deutschland’s Stages As A Zero Car – Has The Prius-Bashing Has Taken A Toll?
Toyota’s Mirai hydrogen fuel cell vehicle has been rather curious. Elon Musk, Tesla Motors’ mogul, has referred to fuel cell technology as “bullshit”, even though the issues...
Unhinged: “Pro Commuter”…Does The Daily Beater/MPG Ride Have To Suck?
Don’t ask me how or why I coined the term Pro Commuter when I wrote about an Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera GT. I was honestly flailing words around so that I could finish a post and move on with my...