The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Montero calls it a “true classic.” They also claim it to be in amazing condition and to come with a refreshed engine. Let’s decide if it’s priced to live up to that classic status. Brooklyn Coachworks Builds The World’s Coolest Defenders Finding the small block Chevy … Read more
As the old sayings go, hindsight is 20/20, and you don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone. In the curious case of the Mitsubishi Mirage, after 30 years of innovation and millions of dollars spent on research and development, the 2024 Mitsubishi Mirage is about three seconds slower to 60 mph than the 1993 … Read more
Image: Mitsubishi The small, cheap new car market has just been dealt a massive blow. The Mitsubishi Mirage, one of the cheapest new cars on the market, will be discontinued. My First Car: Danielle Moné Truitt’s ‘Blue Magic’ Mitsubishi Mirage A Mitsubishi spokesperson confirmed the news to Car & Driver. They confirmed that both the … Read more
After covering Ford CEO Jim Farley saying America needs to fall back in love with smaller cars despite running a company that killed the Fiesta, Focus, Fusion and Taurus, we decided to take a look at the sales figures of the smallest, cheapest cars still on the market. It is July, after all, meaning most … Read more
The ubiquitous 0-to-60 test has become a standardized measure of a vehicle’s performance chops among industry pros and car meet aficionados, but that singular measurement doesn’t paint the full picture of a car’s character. On the road and even on the race track it’s more likely that a car’s 5-to-60 mile per hour results, or … Read more
Image: Southtowne Mitsubishi Working at a Mitsubishi dealer has to be as boring as working at a paint or mattress store — there’s just nothing really interesting to sell. Other than the recently redesigned (and pretty good) Outlander and its PHEV variant, Mitsubishi dealers have only the fourteen-year-old Outlander Sport, the blasphemous Eclipse Cross and … Read more
Screenshot: Motorweek/ YouTube The Chevrolet Camaro was introduced to the world as Chevy’s answer to Ford’s revolutionary affordable performance car the Mustang, but by the time the gas crunch came around there wasn’t much performance left to offer. I was raised in a Ford family, but even the Ford Mustang of the era struggled to … Read more
Image: Manufacturer Provided The state of affordable new automobiles right now is bleak, y’all. Back in 2020, I did a rundown of all the cars left in the U.S. market under $20,000, and there were seventeen. I did another one last fall, and there were six. Now, because the Kia Soul has crept above the … Read more
Screenshot: Tyre Reviews If automakers could sell cars without tires, we’re pretty sure the bean counters in accounting would do exactly that. They probably wouldn’t even think twice about it. Since they can’t get away with that, though, all new cars come with tires, and it would be easy to assume that because the tires … Read more
