- newToy Custom Vans, Crushed: Always Save Everything, Forever!
In addition to unearthing the 1993 photograph of a beater Torino wagon hauling junk while scanning old 35mm negatives for the Impala Hell Project, I ran across this shot of junkyard-find toy vans on a spice rack in my slacker abode of 1993. At the ti…
- 10 hours ago, 24 Aug 11, 7:30pm -
- newAdventures In Used Car Sales, Recession Edition: Get In Here!
Way back in 2008, I created the Nice Price or Crack Pipe? series for Jalopnik, kicking things off with— of course— a $12,500 Chrysler TC By Maserati. NCOCP was a way for me to do something with car ads that didn’t quite work for my Project Car…
- 11 hours ago, 24 Aug 11, 6:30pm -
- newDon’t Miss TTAC’s Detroit-Area (Southfield) Meet-Up Tomorrow
If things seem a little slow around here today, it’s because I’m in the Detroit area, away from the productive calm of my office sanctuary. I’m in town for quite an exciting event: tomorrow, I’ll be conducting an extended interview with the i…
- 12 hours ago, 24 Aug 11, 5:12pm -
- newReview: 2012 Toyota Camry
The year: 1992. The rental car: the then-new third-generation Toyota Camry. My father was surprised how much the car drove like his Lexus LS 400, it was so smooth and quiet. While enthusiasts might deride the Camry as an appliance, it had this, and f…
- 12 hours ago, 24 Aug 11, 4:39pm -
- newSaab Unions: Bankruptcy Two Weeks Away If Pay Is Delayed (And It Will Be)
Saab has already warned its workers that paychecks due tomorrow could be delayed until “committed” funds from investors arrive, but Bloomberg reports that the warning may not be enough. According to the report Any delay in the August payments wil…
- 13 hours ago, 24 Aug 11, 3:38pm -
- newReading This Loathsome Article Regarding A Tedious Yahoo Press Release About Autobytel’s Ridiculous Featured Article Concerning AutoPacific’s Meaningless Awards May Inadvertently Summon Cthulhu
Here at TTAC, we read the press releases so you don’t have to. Well, that’s an exaggeration. To begin with, we don’t read them all, because most of them are boring. And sometimes it’s most expedient to simply repackage the press release for y…
- 14 hours ago, 24 Aug 11, 3:00pm -
- newRedflex Reports Drop in US Traffic Camera Revenue
Opponents of red light cameras and speed cameras have had an impact on the bottom line of one of the world’s largest photo enforcement providers. Redflex Traffic Systems reported a “slowdown in the level of new contracts signed” that dragged th…
- 15 hours ago, 24 Aug 11, 2:30pm -
- newDown On The Oakland Street, 1994: Before Taurus Beaters Were Cheap Enough
The reason I’m only doing ’65 Impala Hell Project posts every week or so is the fact that it takes for-freakin-ever for me to search and scan endless sheets of 35mm negatives and slides for images that are relevant to the story (the 1999-vintage…
- 16 hours ago, 24 Aug 11, 1:30pm -
- VW Is Working On An American-Sized SUV
When I was still working for Volkswagen, I blatantly picked up the delegations from Wolfsburg in my Eddie Bauer Expedition when they arrived at JFK. The higher paygrades were already used to it. The lower paygrades inevitably asked: “Why don’t yo…
- 1 day ago, 23 Aug 11, 8:29pm -
- Chart Of The Day: The Toyota Camry Index
As Camry-fest rolls on, we found an interesting little chart over at Edmunds Autoobserver, which shows that this latest Camry has the lowest inflation-adjusted MSRP in the model’s history. Amid all the talk of record-high transaction prices, Toyota…
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