Between 1992 and 1996, Ford built the indomitable Ford Escort RS Cosworth. This was not only one of the coolest Ford Escorts ever built, (with exception to the lifted Mary Kay model on The Car Files' Instagram), but it was one of the coolest "hot hatches" of all time. Fast forward to 2016 and past a... Continue Reading →
Ok. Here's a quick one for you today. I was roaming the Internet for another post and ran across the Porsche 989. It stuck with me so much, because it looked so familiar to a car we all know today as the Porsche Panamera. Well, maybe not the overall design, because these were designed in... Continue Reading →
I reached an acheievment. This post will be number 100 for The Car Files: Thoughts of an Enthusiast! So I have to make this one the most epic post ever. There's only one issue. What should be the subject for this milestone post? I got it. I guess I could write about the VW... Continue Reading →
After 68 years of production, the Land Rover Defender is being retired. It received an honorable discharge from Land Rover at the Solihull plant. It was accompanied by more than 700 current and former employees as well as the very production Series I, which it is a descendant of. The Defender, which is an icon in... Continue Reading →
Back in the day, the big boy, flagship Caddy was probably a Fleetwood or Deville and that depended on a couple of standards. For one, the term "Flagship Cadillac" really meant the biggest and baddest land yacht. The other standard was...well there really wasn't one. Sure, Cadillac has always been a luxury brand but in... Continue Reading →
People. I know that various sources on the Internet are saying that warming your ride up on a brisk winter morning is harmful to your engine, but there's gotta be another side to this story. It's kinda like choosing between liver damage and frostbite; which is worse? While the science behind the detriments from... Continue Reading →
Admittance is the first step to...? Ok so maybe using that line had no point, but guess who's back? When Honda first gave us their unibody truck, it was met with mixed reviews. While it had the style and versatility of a truck, it's unibody construction, which is very much similar to the Chevy... Continue Reading →
Shhh...Be wery, wery quiet. I'm hunting wRaptors! Between the TRD Pro Tundra, z71 Chevy, and Ram Runner and Rebel, nothing has really gave the SVT Raptor a real challenge. The Raptor's stat sheet is and was extremely impressive and the reviews yielded just as impressive stats. Of course, the SVT Raptor is probably the... Continue Reading →
Seeing as this month is the North American International Auto Show, NAIAS, I figured a proper "The Short Throw" post should feature a throwback back to 2007. Related: 2016 Pagani Huayra-BC: The Short Throw We all eventually knew it as the Mitsubishi Evolution X, which was the tenth generation of the Evo. The production... Continue Reading →
