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Le sigh. It's happened again. Our latest project car, the 4DMILF Subaru wagon, is finally turbocharged and ready to make the kind of power the styling suggested it had... then disaster. CLICK HERE to view the catastrophe. If your only experience with Subarus is via memes, you'll probably think it's pushed a head gasket. However, the reality with turbo Subarus is the design of horizontally-opposed turbo engines means you're FAR more likely to spin a rod or main bearing. Which is only one step down the list of "Terrible Things You Don't Want Happening To Your Engine" from throwing a rod...

Homologation is a big word, but it's impact on car culture is all-time. The process of making a road-going variant of a race car to qualify that race car for a particular class of motorsport has given us some of our most-vaunted automotive heroes.  Stretching back to the early 1960s, the explosion of racing production cars in touring cars, NASCAR, rallying, sports cars, drag racing, and more, occured across the globe. From European circuits to New Zealand rally trails, American speedways and drag strips to Aussie road courses, car manufacturers realised the publicity of winning sporting contests helped raise their...

Forget the GT-Rs. Leave the WRXs aside. Today we're going to look at 5 classic cars which can be made into rad project cars, but are bargain pick-ups as they're so under-appreciated today it's almost criminal.  1. Mercedes-Benz W126 Big Benzos cost bank when new or when they're pieces of ancient art. But, once they're over 20 years old they're actually cheap to buy. As with ANY old high-end car these things can hide pleny of expensive, complicated repairs, but then that's all part of the ride whether you're buying an old Benz, a Jag, or something COMPLETELY fruity like...

If you've seen the LATEST EPISODE of our 4DMILF show car rescue you'll have seen things didn't quite go to plan when we set out to replace the clutch in our newest nugget. In fact, we had an absolute Barry Crocker.

Where do people get the idea to paint dragons and tigers on their cars? Who came up with the idea to paint life-sized women all over their cars they'd have on display for all the world to see at a show? While people have been custom-painting cars since the very first horseless carriages, and flame paint jobs can be traced to the mid 1930s race cars, it was the counter-culture hippie movement of the 60s which birthed the kind of intense artistic inspiration required to paint a 6-foot-tall dragon down the side of a show car. Youth culture changed rapidly...