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When Project Cars Become Project Cars
Everybody please welcome Cory Crelan to these pages. He’s a TTAC reader who had the rather indefensible idea to buy a pair of Nissan Sentras… of course, they’re both SE-Rs. Check out his story and...
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Ur-Turn: Why Drive?
After noted Carrera Cup racer Sean Edwards was killed while instructing from the right seat, I wrote a piece on the incident for Road&Track. I also asked my friend Valerie Roedenbeck Maloof to...
View ArticleLuke’s Camaro, Part One
Luke, also known as “pharmer” here at TTAC, has a story to tell about his ’94 Camaro. Give him a warm welcome! — JB Let’s get something straight before we even get into this little story: I don’t live...
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Ur-Turn: Mitsubishi’s Biggest Fan Discusses The Renault-Nissan Deal
Today’s edition of Ur-Turn comes from Brian Driggs, a long-time TTAC reader, Mitsubishi fan and published of Gearbox Magazine, a digital enthusiast publication that we highly recommend. As a North...
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Reader Rental Review: Seat Altea XL
This review comes from reader Nicholas Naylor, who rented a Seat Altea XL for a recent trip to Spain. My wife and I attended a wedding in southern Spain recently, along with another couple who are...
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Ur-Turn: Not Your Grandmother’s Nylons
TTAC reader Dean Trombetta sent us an article on anti-freeze resistant nylon and its applications in the automotive world. In early 2011, a class action lawsuit was filed against Porsche alleging that...
View ArticleUr-Turn: The World Of Counterfeit Plastics
Click here to view the embedded video. TTAC reader Dean Trombetta is back, giving an insider’s look at a widely reported but mis-understood story involving automotive plastics. Last week, Aston Martin...
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Ur-Turn: Saturation Dive Into The ZF 9-Speed
A TTAC reader is an engineer with a major powertrain company, and offered his extremely detailed analysis of the ZF 9-speed. Consider this an AP level course in powertrain engineering. Before we dive...
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Ur-Turn: Shopping For A Family Hauler
Reader Daniel Latini is a car guy and has a baby on the way. He’s looking for your advice on a new ride that can carry around his family. My wife is one of those generally temperate souls who has a...
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Ur-Turn: What It’s Worth
Abraham Drimmer writes about moving from South Florida to Michigan in his Miata “You need to sell your car”, my father told me, when I informed him of my imminent departure. I got the call in...
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Ur-Turn: Autonomous Cars Are Already Here
TTAC reader and former auto journalist Michael Banovsky writes about the inexorable move towards autonomous cars Autonomous cars are already here. It doesn’t matter if you’re testing an actual Google...
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Ur-Turn: The Cruze-amino Is GM’s CAFE-Proof Small Truck
TTAC reader Evan Reisner thinks that a small pickup is just the ticket for GM. But it’s not the one you may expect. The prevailing wisdom on TTAC is that many Americans are interested in a compact...
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Ur-Turn: Need A Lyft?
TTAC reader Majda shares his tale of becoming a driver for ridesharing app Lyft. Few car enthusiasts get paid to drive soused, singing young women around town. I do. The price was zip-tying a pink...
View ArticleUr-Turn: TTAC Commenter Buickman Presents His Plan To Save GM
Click here to view the embedded video. TTAC commenter Buickman, better known as Jim Dollinger to friends, colleagues and loved ones, was on Autoline Detroit last week to present his plan to save...
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Return Of The SE-R Project
(Cory Crelan returns, with more SE-R mayhem — JB) The plan was a simple one- sell Sentra SE-R #1 and keep the SCC project Sentra SE-R. A bout of bad indigestion was a good comparison to what happened...
View ArticleUr-Turn: Death Of A Friend
(This week, major management and perhaps ownership changes were announced for Nelson Ledges Road Course. These changes might eventually include the closure and/or sale of the track. We asked noted...
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A Nine Year Quest, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Looking Cool and...
(If you have some time this weekend, this contribution, from our reader Robert, will be worth that time — JB) “I will NEVER drive a minivan.” Thus ended the first hostile negotiation serious...
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TTAC Reader Pits Simulated MX-5 Against the Real Deal [with Video]
My company, Force Dynamics, builds full-motion driving simulators. They work by tilting you as the simulated vehicle corners or accelerates, so your brain is tricked into feeling lateral or...
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In Pictures: Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix
I bet you didn’t know the longest continually running vintage car race and show in the nation is held in Yinzerville. That’s right. Every summer since 1983, Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park becomes the...
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2015 Subaru Legacy Rental Car Review
In my youth I was a vital, virile, male Manly Man. So manly that when I got a new ’86 GTI as my first “nice” car, I left off not only the automatic transmission but also the power steering. Mind you,...
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How I Bought A Ridiculously Cheap Brand-new Nissan Leaf
Aaron Cole’s articles about the ridiculous incentives available for purchasing a Leaf in Colorado piqued my interest, mostly because: I live in Colorado; and, I like the idea of paying way less than...
View ArticleUr-Turn: “Avanti!” She Cried
(From “HW” comes a tale of a Corvette, a hot-blooded Alfa Veloce, and a young Italian wife with romance on her mind.) Sam, a good friend of mine, had lusted after a particular 1965 Corvette Stingray,...
View ArticleUr-Turn: High-Low and Crossovers to Go
(Welcome Daniel Ho — a.k.a. “Waftable Torque” — who’s here to school you proles on the true appeal of the crossover/cute-ute/abominable mom-van. — JB) There has seldom been a topic that riles...
View ArticleAmerica’s First Road Trip: How a $50 Bet and a Dog Got a Nation on the Move
by Richard A. Ratay The first noteworthy attempt to drive across America began as many ill-advised feats do — on a bet. While visiting California in 1903, a 31-year old doctor named Horatio Jackson...
View ArticleIn Defense Of: The Jeep Patriot
Editor’s Note: Please welcome Matt Pericles, a.k.a. FormerFF, as the first reader featured during TTAC’s Reader Submission week. We’ll post more submissions throughout the week. Stay tuned! Consider...
View ArticleTTAC Wants You
How would you like to see your writing published at TTAC? Over the years we’ve always taken contributions from new writers, indeed many of TTAC’s current staffers (Editor-in-Chief included) started out...
View ArticleUr-Turn: How My Dream Car Killed My Dream Car
Memory can be a funny thing: an ally or an enemy. Any modern American likely grew up with cars, and can summon countless tales of good and woe. Childhood vacations that required an I-70 burn through...
View ArticleUr-Turn: Look… But Don’t Touch
Ur-Turn is your weekly opportunity to contribute to TTAC. Every Saturday we select a different piece submitted to our contact form, and publish it as a showcase for the diverse perspectives of TTAC’s...
View ArticleUr-Turn: On The Death Of The Classic Car
Ur-Turn is your weekly opportunity to contribute to TTAC. Every Saturday we select a different piece submitted to our contact form, and publish it as a showcase for the diverse perspectives of TTAC’s...
View ArticleUr-Turn: Trippin’ In A Panther For 39 Hours
[Ed has flown the coop for a week of R&R, and I know he has a number of Ur-Turn submissions in his inbox. Normally, we wouldn’t be running a piece from a prior Ur-Turn contributor, but these are...
View ArticleUr-Turn: The Truth About Driving While Stoned
If you think Baruth’s series on speeding demonstrated both a lack of adult responsibility and abundant sociopathology, you’re going to love this. Every state in the union has DUID, driving under the...
View ArticleUr-Turn: The Karma Kar
Ur-Turn is your weekly opportunity to contribute to TTAC. Every Saturday we select a different piece submitted to our contact form, and publish it as a showcase for the diverse perspectives of TTAC’s...
View ArticleUr-Turn: Driving In Italy
Ur-Turn is your weekly opportunity to contribute to TTAC. Every Saturday we select a different piece submitted to our contact form, and publish it as a showcase for the diverse perspectives of TTAC’s...
View ArticleUr-Turn: American Cars In Asia: A Layman’s Observations
Ur-Turn is your weekly opportunity to contribute to TTAC. Every Weekend we select a piece submitted to our contact form, and publish it as a showcase for the diverse perspectives of TTAC’s readers....
View ArticleUr-Turn: Panther Love In The Time Of Homeland Security
Ur-Turn is your weekly opportunity to contribute to TTAC. Every Weekend we select a piece submitted to our contact form, and publish it as a showcase for the diverse perspectives of TTAC’s readers....
View ArticleUr-Turn: Chrysler Awarded “Most Improved Interior” At NAIAS
Ur-Turn is your weekly opportunity to contribute to TTAC. Every weekend (well, almost) we select a piece submitted to our contact form, and publish it as a showcase for the diverse perspectives of...
View ArticleNTSB Pushing for Full Cell Phone Ban, Misses The Point
This is a guest article by our reader levaris. We wanted to see what the Best & Brightest think. According to an Associated Press article today, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is...
View ArticleTurnaround
(This fictional contribution comes to us from a TTAC reader. We’d like to see your contributions too: send them using the E-mail addresses on the right side of the page — JB) “Do you know what I hate...
View ArticleUr-turn: GM Not Going Bankrupt – For Now
This time on Ur-turn, reader Erikstrawn weighs in on an issue that kept TTAC busy for years: Will GM go bankrupt? After all those years, Forbes woke up to the issue and wrote a long article on same....
View ArticleUr-Turn: A Metalhead Responds To The Scion Piece
TTAC Reader Richard responds to Derek’s Scion Metalhead Marketing piece from the perspective of a car lover and metal fan ” ‘Entrails ripped from a virgin’s c**t,’ ” I thought to myself. Toyota wants...
View ArticleUr-Turn: I Drove An Amati
Yesterday’s piece on Mazda’s “upmarket” move (really, a pledge to improve the quality of their cars) dredged up the name “Amati”, as these discussions are wont to do. The legend of Amati has persisted...
View ArticleIdentity Politics and the Transgressive Nature of Autocross
Please welcome Ryan Patrick Murphy to TTAC. A college professor and automotive enthusiast, he’s owned two E28 BMWs, a couple of M3s, and an old 911. Lately, he has been nursing a Land Rover Discovery...
View ArticleRecycled Hawtness: Paul Newman’s Mid-engine Indy V8-powered VW Beetle
Welcome Gas2.org‘s Jo Borras to our HIGHLY EXCLUSIVE AND UPSCALE circle of TTAC contributors. Jo’s brought us a piece on a “recycled” VW Beetle. Check it out and give his site a click, too! — JB We’ve...
View ArticleUr-Turn: Confessions of a V6 Muscle Car Owner
TTAC reader Richard Murdocco submits his tale of doing the unthinkable…willingly buying a V6 muscle car. While TTAC has been a proponent of the most recent V6 Mustang, few are so enlightened to its...
View ArticleWhy Can’t You Smile At The DMV? How Your Photo Is Used Without Your Knowledge
The news that Ohio has joined a majority of other states in silently using facial recognition to make drivers “suspects” without their knowledge has been in the news for the past day or so. My first...
View ArticleUr-Turn: “Last Rides(tm) Special Deluxe Edition” by Crabspirits
From our very own “Crabspirits” comes this mid-week breaking of the fiction rules. As Anita Baker once sang, “Rules were made to be broken,” but I think of Crabspirits’ work as something beyond...
View ArticleUr-Turn: I Bought A Mustang On A Whim
Back in 2009 I wrote a blog about buying a Z4M on a whim. Four years later, I’ve made another impulse buy. Prior to moving to Seattle last summer my wife and I downsized our car stable and I purchased...
View ArticleWhere Are The Buicks Of Yesteryear? They’re Here — With Pictures
Please welcome Jeff Stork, who comes to us from The Brougham Society with this story of an auto show and a young GM district manager, along with some great pictures. Check out his blog and Facebook...
View ArticleBuying Decade-nce: The Unfrozen Caveman of Car Buyers
I am the unfrozen cave man of car buyers. Every decade or so, a machine shaman whispers the magic words in my ear — You’re gonna need a new engine — and I leave my cave, shaking my fist at the great...
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