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  • Honda CRX Hunt: Searching Facebook Marketplace’s Overpriced Garbage

    Today, we scour Facebook Marketplace for a decent Honda CRX, second gen, 1988-1991. We aren’t picky: while an Si would be great, we’ll take an HF or even a DX. Engine swaps? Don’t care. We’re just trying to find something clean, and these sellers are making it really hard.

    The second-generation Honda CRX, produced from 1988 to 1991, was a compact, lightweight, two-seater hatchback with a sporty design. It featured a sleek, aerodynamic body with a sloping rear hatch: kind of a chopped, lighter EF Civic. In the United States, the CRX was available in three primary models:

    1. CRX HF (High Fuel Efficiency): Focused on fuel economy, it was equipped with a 1.5-liter, 8-valve SOHC inline-4 engine (D15B6) producing around 62 horsepower. You might still see one of these from time to time pulling down 40+ MPG.
    2. CRX DX: The mid-level trim, featuring a 1.5-liter, 16-valve SOHC inline-4 engine (D15B2) with 92 horsepower. This is the one you don’t want unless an engine swap and wild build are coming “soon”.
    3. CRX Si (Sport Injection): The performance-oriented version, featuring a 1.6-liter, 16-valve SOHC inline-4 engine (D16A6) producing 108 horsepower. The Si had sportier suspension tuning, a sunroof, and additional interior features. This is the one collectors want. That “Si” badge really commands a premium.

    The second-gen CRX was known for its agile handling, responsive steering, and lightweight construction, making it a popular choice among enthusiasts and tuners, and making it very hard to find one today, even though so many were produced.

  • Reading a Ten Year Old Super Street Magazine Cover to Cover: August 2012 Issue

    I have a pile of old import magazines collecting dust on my bookshelf. Today, I’m going to share one with you: ten years old to the month, this August 2012 issue of Super Street Magazine is a window to the world of tuners ten years past.

    Now, 2012 wasn’t peak Super Street. But it was absolutely a different time. Instagram and TikTok weren’t the defacto show car showcases of the day: magazines still held the title. Getting your car featured was still the dream of every shadetree mechanic. Drifting and stance were the only games in town, and the first gen Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ still hadn’t hit the showroom floor.

    If you like this kind of content, let me know. I have plenty more, including some seriously old issues, older than at least a third of our audience, that I’d love to share with you.

  • Toyota GR86 Warranty Claim DENIED Over Social Media Photos: Engine Blew Up During AUTOCROSS

    Today, it’s another round of our Bring A Trailer auction guessing game, which, due to PC concerns, we refer to in print only as Nice Price or No Dice. No cease and desist from Jalopnik yet, so we must still not be big enough. Fingers crossed their legal team attacks us soon.

    In this one, we check out a Honda CRX Si, a Mark 2 Toyota Celica Supra, a 1970 Dodge Charger which leads to a great deal of debate, a low mileage, rear wheel drive variant Toyota 4Runner, and a top-trim Honda Element.

  • The Bring A Trailer Guessing Game: Nice Price or No Dice #4

    Today, it’s another round of our Bring A Trailer auction guessing game, which, due to PC concerns, we refer to in print only as Nice Price or No Dice. No cease and desist from Jalopnik yet, so we must still not be big enough. Fingers crossed their legal team attacks us soon.

    In this one, we check out a Honda CRX Si, a Mark 2 Toyota Celica Supra, a 1970 Dodge Charger which leads to a great deal of debate, a low mileage, rear wheel drive variant Toyota 4Runner, and a top-trim Honda Element.

  • Real Boomer Content: Mecum Orlando 2022 Coverage

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-RjxakCXgA

    Today, we try to attract some boomers to the site, to help even out the overwhelming weeaboo population, by watching Mecum Orlando 2022. It’s the final hour of the final day: what will roll across the auction block? Probably some cars from the 1960s and 1970s.

  • Would you pay HOW MUCH for this S14 240SX? Nice Price or No Dice #3

    It’s another Nice Price or No Dice game where you guess if that’s a NICE PRICE on that Bring A Trailer auction or not. This may be a divisive video as Nice Price or No Dice is subjective and determined by the host. WHO WILL WIN?

    In this one, we check out an S14 240SX SE, a low mileage 986 Porsche Boxster, a 2G Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX, a 996 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S, a Mk3 Toyota Supra Turbo, and a 4th gen Chevrolet Camaro Z28 SS. Something for most everybody in this one.

  • Respect All Builds Challenge: Toyota 86/Subaru BRZ Subreddit

    It’s a different one today. You have to try something new every now and then. We’re usually down pretty hard on the cars we look at in these videos, but today, we’re going to stay positive and RESPECT ALL BUILDS on Reddit’s FT86 platform community (that’s the Scion FR-S, Toyota 86, and Subaru BRZ for you laymen). It’s not going to be easy, but we’re resilient.

  • Ranking 2G Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX listings on Facebook Marketplace

    It’s the baby Evo. It’s the BETTER Evo. It’s the crankwalking nightmare. It’s some weird soap bar from the ’90s. No matter how you look at it, it’s the 2G Eclipse GSX, and it’s an tuner favorite, a cult classic, a drag racing legend.

    None of these are stock. An unmodified DSM does not exist in 2022, probably hasn’t existed for decades at this point. Will we find any worth whipping? Click through.

  • Skull Shifters, Boy Racers, and Broughams: Reviewing Your Cars

    The fourth chapter of reviewing your cars for 5K subs. We’ll do more in the near future, promise! Some great ones in here today, including an S13 hatch, a Caddy Brougham, and a Phoenix Yellow E46 BMW M3 coupe.

  • Nice Price or No Dice: The Bring A Trailer Auction Game

    It’s a simple game: nice price or crack pipe? Today I’m presenting a handful of Bring A Trailer auctions to the boys and seeing if they can tell a good deal from bad.

    Oh, and Puchii bought a BMW Z3 for a steal. Nice!