culture|garage

Articles : Your bumper stickers and you: the less than definitive guide

2010-01-21T03:39:59+00:00

Visualize, if you will, an old red pick-up truck. Late ‘80s, early ‘90s. Very square. Very red. A little dinged up on the edges. Perhaps a bit rusty. You know which one I’m talking about. Usually to the left of you on the highway. Now visualize, if you will, the bumper stickers that are inevitably on the tail of this vehicle. Depending on the license plate, the highway, and the speed of...

Videos : Forklift fail.

2009-12-08T19:46:44+00:00

There seem to be quite the amount of guys failing at forklifts recently. But, I really dig this one. He set up a camera to demonstrate his mad tight drifting and donut skills. And, as expected, it didn’t end well.

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Articles : I hate you for ruining cars for me, “Twilight” – a rant.

2009-11-30T05:01:16+00:00

As evidenced in prior articles, I’m female. So in order to write this article I will have to admit that yes, I did read The Twilight Saga, and yes, I went to see both movies. (And yes, I am full of self-loathing for both.) But, as this is a car website, I will not wax poetic on physiques or dreamy fictional characters. Instead, I will wax poetic about “shiny silver Volvos” and how...

Videos : Subaru enters Dakar Rally.

2009-11-16T14:57:15+00:00

This is Subaru’s entry into the 2010 Dakar Rally. This is not your granola-eating, co-op shopping, flannel-wearing neighbor’s Forester.

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Articles : It’s only okay if you’re alone in your car.

2009-11-07T20:18:20+00:00

We are all special and unique people. That being said, I believe there are inherent qualities that are in all of us. We never notice these similarities, because these qualities only show themselves in private. Generally in one’s car.

After much thought and a smidge of observation, I’ve compiled a list of things that many drivers do in their cars, regardless of age, sex, race, etc etc.

Articles : Some propaganda from GM.

2009-11-04T15:53:14+00:00

GM has stayed in contact with me since the first few months of starting this site. Along the last couple years they’ve invited us to many different events. And sometimes they like to fill our inboxes up. They couldn’t contain their excitement with the most recent news. That news being that for the first time in 21 months, they posted sales gains. I’ll reiterate, for the first time in 21 months,...

Videos : How to ruin an STI.

2009-11-02T22:40:32+00:00

Ken Block is up to some Bro-like tendencies and has mounted some Trax to his number 43 rally car. Hilarity kind of ensues. Or something like that.

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Videos : Halloween Spotting

2009-11-02T15:40:29+00:00

Pay attention, and see if you can identify the driver of this GT-R. I suppose that while the GT-R is considered an affordable super car, it still takes a celebrity paycheck to get one.

Tipster: Kiernan

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Articles : Buick, seriously Harley Earl is pissed.

2009-10-31T13:27:59+00:00

Buick. You are killing me. And re-killing Harley Earl. This is going to take a lot for me to say… but you actually make some good looking cars. I even recommended the Enclave to my mom, who promptly declaims, “A Buick?! I’m not in a retirement home.” Then you have the Lacrosse, which is certainly one of the best looking sedans on the market. And I truly mean that, the way the exhaust is so...

Articles : Cars, the anthropomorphic dilemma.

2009-10-31T01:08:29+00:00

anthropomorphic |ˌanθrəpəˈmôrfik|
adjective
relating to or characterized by anthropomorphism.
• having human characteristics : anthropomorphic bears and monkeys.

Remember that line in Star Wars when Han Solo says to the Millennium Falcon, “Hear me baby, hold together”? I do. And it’s a curious concept – Han Solo talking to his ship like that. It’s not like the ship will...