For the past 50 years or so the manual transmission has been subject of false reports of its demise. In 1965, Playboy magazine published an article by now legendary automotive journalist Ken Purdy under the headline “Bye-Bye Stick Shift”. I
Category: Longer Reads
Long form articles on the automotive and car world

Sacred Cow #1 – The Mazda Miata/MX-5.
You can’t escape the MX-5/Miata. It’s in every lazy list of great cars you can buy for under X amount of cash. It’s the car recommended to anyone and everyone on forums, it’s the darling of the financially challenged car

Dodge Challenger R/T: The Numbers Don’t Matter
When I arrived in America and got settled I wanted a car. An American car, because that’s what you do when you move to a new country – you immerse yourself in its culture and try to understand what makes