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  • Goodbye, Daily Deals

    Daily Deals, the near-daily blog post featuring a half broken list of Facebook Marketplace cars you’ve been getting spammed to your inbox for months, is coming to an end.

    If you’re a daily reader of Daily Deals, don’t worry too much. I’m making a new page that will update daily with good deals found on ccf.com/cars. I’ll post about it when it’s live.

    So why pull Daily Deals? Because it severely clutters the news feed. We have actual content we’ve created going up multiple times per week, and I want the feed to be nice and clean, a showcase for all of our work. Unfortunately, DD gets less views than our features, and really just looks bad in its current state. We’re trying to at least look half professional, here, after all. This is also to improve our mailing list. I only want to deliver you a morning email if there’s actually something on the site to read.

    In other site news, Ebay listings are returning, and I’m going to start sunsetting the forum in favor of /cars inside the next month. If you’ve bookmarked any of the forum pages, they’ll start redirecting to /cars but filtered to your chosen make/model/generation. The forum has been a spam magnet from jump and is made obsolete by /cars, so it’s time to stop supporting it.

    I know for most of you, this doesn’t really affect you in any way. If you have any concerns about DD or the forum, let me know. /cars is, for the most part, much more user friendly than the forum, but if I’ve missed or broken something, just shoot me an email and let me know.

  • 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.