RideLust

Who can really love a Volvo?

As you may have noticed, Editor-In-Chief Suzanne Denbow is away today, schlepping it up at the New York Auto Show. We’d be jealous, but she had to shell out her own cash to travel to New York and go to the show, and we’re far too cheap to bother doing something like that. As the saying goes, however, when the cat’s away, the mice will play. Since she isn’t around to stop us from writing things she might not agree with, we’re going to run amuck, and worry about getting fired after she gets back. After all, it’s always easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

As such, we present an article that’s sure to frost her cookies when she sees it: the top five reasons Volvos suck: Read More…

I’ve commented on this, oh-so-subtly, in articles previously, but it’s time that something was said in more straightforward terms. I’ve been going through articles written by some of the “old media” types. Automotive journalists who write for big, respectable, recognized outlets. Newspapers like the Wall Street Journal or the Globe and Mail; car magazines like Motor Driver or Car and Trend… or whatever it is. I’ve been surveying the conclusions these journalists tend to arrive at, and by-and-large, they usually seem to agree wholeheartedly with one another, like some kind of Old Boy’s Club circle-jerk.

Let me be perfectly clear, then, on what needs to be done: the Old Media journalists need to be taken out to the back forty and Old Yellered as soon as possible. Read More…

Sometimes we get too caught up in the new cars that are out on the market. Everything’s shiny, everything’s new. Well, sometimes it’s good to remember how beautiful the old stuff is.

Buick has been getting a rough rap lately for producing a bunch of bland, boring cars. But I think we need to remember where they came from. So, without further ado, let’s look at some amazing old Buicks from years past.

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Okay, it’s confession time. I’ve got a man-crush on the new Harley-Davidson F150.  It’s been three days since we posted about it, and I keep coming back to admire it again.

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Okay, kids, gather ’round. Professor Deadlift is about to give you a little lesson in automotive economics.

You see, I’ve worked out the real reason behind the sharp decline in new car sales over the last year or two. It’s groundbreaking new research, and I’m sure it’ll be all over CNN any day now, but you get to hear it here first. Aren’t you the lucky thing? Imagine how impressed your friends will be! Okay, listen carefully.

Everything that’s gone wrong in the past few years can be traced to one cause. Just one. Read More…

Women or Cars? How do you choose?

For some people, their lives revolve around their cars. They are obsessed with them, they dwell on them, their friends don’t want to visit them because they know that will be the only topic of conversation.

I call these people amateurs.

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