Photo: Cars & Bids A brand-new, base-model Porsche 718 Boxster may cost more than $70,000, but the biggest downside isn’t the price. It’s driving one and realizing that it’s absolutely worth the money and that you can no longer tell yourself it’s overhyped and overpriced. The Boxster really is just that good. For the 981 … Read more
Image: Porsche Museum The 984, Porsche’s diminutive concept from the late 1980s would have come at just the right time to absolutely redefine the small roadster marketplace, beating the new-for-1989 Mazda MX-5 to market by a couple of years. Porsche worked with Spanish automaker SEAT on a variety of projects through the 1980s, including this sub-2000 … Read more
The Volkswagen Scirocco and Corrado are easily the best cars that VW ever designed. Sports coupes are now less popular among the public than they’ve been in the past, making a revival of either VW coupe unlikely, but the Scirocco is rumored to be returning to Europe as a two-door EV in 2028, according to … Read more
“The thing America needs right now is a revival of the mini-truck. “I’m not talking about the Maverick. Too many seats, too car based, too much money. “I’m talking a true, bare bones, economical personal pickup, for a dirt cheap price. “Body on frame, four cylinders, manual transmission, hand crank windows, rubber floor, vinyl seats. … Read more
Convertibles are amazing, and some of the best cars of all time. Everyone loves to put the top down on a beautiful day. Well, except Daniel. Daniel Golson – 1991 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Image: Jalopnik This is my 1991 Mercedes-Benz 300SL, which I bought back in the spring of 2021 about a year after moving to … Read more
Image: Porsche Between June 23 and September 5, Porsche built 53 Boxster and Cayman models for the U.S. market with a little snippet of code that makes them potentially totally illegal to drive. The German automaker says an employee was manually altering code in the rear vehicle control unit, which now allows the rear spoiler … Read more
