Author Archives: Jake Stumph

How Hardcore is Hardcore? BMW M4 GTS

In a nut shell, very. BMW has seemingly taken cues from the Porsche RS school of design: more power, less weight, less interior features, back seats replaced with a half cage, track day rubber, a dual clutch automatic transmission and a nutty paint scheme. Very good. Additionally, unlike the garden variety M4 model, the GTS is [...] More »

This Modified Audi 200 Launches Harder Than You Can Imagine

The 1991 Audi 200 Avant is more than your typical Winter “beater,” as there is much more than meets the eye. This particular 200 features a fully built version of the 20-valve Inline-5 cylinder engine, bored out to 2.3L of displacement, using lightened and strengthened rods and pistons, matched to a hotter head cylinder with [...] More »

This 1978 Ferrari 308 GTS Brings Magnum P.I. to Life

Yes, the Ferrari 308 is the Magnum P.I. car, and yes if you wear either a Hawaiian shirt or a white suit, you will be perfectly poised to cruise the roads of Oahu, or in this case, Southern California with this One Take review. Matt Farah and the Smoking Tire boys give the One Take [...] More »

100 Mustang Crashes – 24 Minutes of Fail

Picking on Mustangs is too easy. Call it low hanging fruit or what have you, but it’s almost expected that at the exit of every Cars and Coffee event, a Mustang’s thirst for blood will overpower it’s rear wheels as it lunges for the sidelined crowds. Some brilliant Netizen has taken it upon themselves to [...] More »

Low Mileage 1993 Mazda RX7 “FD” Appears on Bring-a-Trailer

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Hang on, hang on, hang on, what do we have here? This 37,000 mile “FD” Rx7 looks by all admissions, perfect. Everything checks out, clean CarFax, clean title, not too low, not too high of mileage, a pristine interior mated to a flawless exterior and an all original powertrain. Check my pulse, please. I might [...] More »

Toyota – “Scion Lives On”

Toyota/Scion has released a video covering the history of the brand and the impact it has left, in both the community and within Toyota itself. Scion was a test bed, a free-standing brand that was able to take risks that Toyota couldn’t afford with it’s mainline brand. This manifested itself in several ways. Scion tried [...] More »

What’s Smoking More: The Engine or the Tires with Cummins-swapped Cadillac

Them crazy Roadkill boys are back at it again, and this time, the victim to their madness is a 1991 Cadillac Brougham, AKA the BroHammer. Finnegan and Freiburger were invited to dig through a private junkyard owned by a friend of the show, and LeMons nutter, Andy Moss. Along for the ride this time are [...] More »