A few weeks ago, my best friend finally took the plunge. No, he didn't get married – he and his wife have been together since high school – though this particular platform is one that nearly everyone in our group of friends has been climbing, approaching the edge of, and then carefully backing down from for almost as long as [...]
The Fast and the Furious films are to car culture what Spongebob Squarepants is to marine biology. They are manic, cartoonish representations of actual driving but if you can suspend disbelief for 90 minutes and take them as blistering, bare-knuckle, action-packed entertainment, they are furiously entertaining. Most people either love or hate the [...]
I know this is a car blog, but I have to vent. Thanks to the wonders of Netflix, my wife has roped me into binge-watching the entire run of The Vampire Diaries. If you somehow managed to dodge the teen-vampire Twilight bullet, consider yourself lucky; I'm taking one for the team. The show follows [...]
Today in 1982, Honda became the first Asian Auto Company to manufacture cars in USA with the Honda Accord.A Quick HistoryIn 1937 Soichiro Honda got his start by crafting piston rings for the Japanese automaker Toyota under the company name, Eastern Sea Precision Machine Company. By the 1940’s Honda was helping Toyota in the production [...]
While Audi celebrates '40 Years of the Five-Cylinder Engine' check out our customer's 1984 Audi Quattro. Born from the idea of chassis engineer Jörg Bensinger who had just seen the Volkswagen's Iltis, the Audi Quattro grew out of the Audi 80 and into the "first sports car with permanent all-wheel drive" (The UK quattro Network). [...]
In the 1970’s BMW was working on the 3.0 CS replacement. Originally wanting to go taller, VP Bob Lutz proposed an alternate lower path. The BMW 6 Series. Production started in 1976 with the 630 CS (CS stand for Coupe Sport) and the more powerful 633 CSi. The 633 CSi sported a 3.3 liter straight-six [...]
The Volvo 1800 dates back all the way to 1957 when the Swedish auto maker wanted to produce a sports car to compete in the American and European markets. The prototype, designed by Pelle Petterson, was currently being called the X1 and was on course to be produced by Karmann in Osnsbrück, Germany. Volkswagen, one [...]
In 1986, BMW merged the M1 engine with the 535i chassis to produce the BMW M5. Sporting a 5 speed 3.5L engine, the M5 was "the fastest production sedan in the world."This 1988 BMW M5 carries our #91 Jaspe color. With a black exterior and a beige interior with black accents; the Jaspe's wide color [...]
When ordering our mats, we have a standard heel pad and binding (Trim) that we use for each mat however that doesn't have to be the case with your order! We can combine any color of heel pad and binding with a mat to give you the exact look you are going for!Here is [...]
Hi All and happy Tuesday! Check out this sweet video review we received from David at "Our Ride Life" from YouTube. In this video David talks about some replacement floor mats provided to us by CocoMats.com. He goes over a bit about the history of Cocomats as well as how the custom mats fit in [...]