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Car Throttle has recently made a video about iconic engines everyone should know about. While watching it, I noticed the severe lack of American engines; so I decided to make a list of my own. Here are some engines that all muscle car enthusiasts should be aware of. One: Ford Flathead V8

Let me just say that I’m a pretty big muscle car enthusiast myself. I’m just taking an objective look at their flaws, because almost everything isn’t flawless I will look at the obvious and not so obvious flaws of muscle cars and here they are… One: Muscle Cars Aren’t The Best At Cornering

It seems as if as time goes on, talk and love for muscle cars and hot rods dissipates. There are several factors that cause this and I will talk about them now… One: Dying Enthusiasts and Rusting Cars

Believe it or not, there are some cool American cars on the market that isn’t a prancing pony or its Chevy rival. When I say “cheap” in the title, for this post that will mean anything under $10,000 for sale in America. There are some hidden gems out there that can also be had for cheap if you look in the right place… One: Plymouth Duster, The Charger’s Little Brother

Like pop culture in general, each decade of the 20th and 21st century has unique things that make it stand out. For example, the 60’s were about Hippies, the Beatles and Rolling Stones, and drugs. The 80’s was about big hair and makeup, unique music and attire and Ronald Regan (Margaret Thatcher for you Brits). In a way, car culture over the years has the same thing going on, where decades in car culture are remembered by specific things. Here they are… 1950’s: Hot Rods, Drag Racing, Tail Fins and Whitewalls, Drive In’s and European Sports Cars

Trucks and SUV’s are just as important to America as regular passenger cars. They come in all shapes and sizes, and I will expound on that in just a few seconds…

Believe it or not, there is some variety to the cars from sea to shining sea. One: Pro Street

As the old saying goes, just because you can doesn’t mean you should. While putting a rotary engine into a Mazda mini truck sounds like a good idea, in practice it really isn’t and here are some reasons why. One: Lack of torque and a peaky powerband Rotary engines aren’t known for their abundance of torque, and a lot of the things trucks do require a good amount of torque to accomplish. Also, rotaries make most of their power high in the RPM range, trying to tow a trailer with stuff on/in it with a rotary would be a pain in the buttocks.

I have written an article talking about why at the time I thought that the horsepower war among car manufacturers was getting out of hand. Now, I will be talking about that topic again with a different perspective and picking different types of racing and driving and talking about if there is a point where extra horsepower above a certain number is pointless.

Car culture is both a wonderful and deplorable thing. We see people having car meets having fun and helping each other, but we also see people driving like douches and crashing and dangerous street racing. Here are the ups and downs of car culture

I have recently discovered another way American, European and Japanese car makers are similar. There are certain types of cars that are made by many of those manufacturers; here are those types of cars.

There are many kinds of rivalries within car culture, Subaru WRX STI vs Mitsubishi Evo, Chevy Camaro vs Ford Mustang, etc. However, the rivalry that is the most prevalent across the world is the rivalry of Muscle vs JDM vs Euro. For the uninitiated, Euro cars are sports cars made in Europe, JDM is a term used for Japanese sports cars (more specifically made for the Japanese Domestic Market), and Muscle is a term used for American cars with a V8 engine, because Merica, THAT’S why! Let’s look at the history of this rivalry in America specifically.

Us car guys tend to like shiny new cars, love to wax and wash cars so we can see the paint glisten; so we can smell the leather and that new car smell. What if I told you that you can also have fun by driving a car that has more rust then steel and is worth less than a new flat screen TV? Sounds crazy right? Allow me to explain why a beater isn’t as bad as you think it is.