Editor's Note: This week, we're switching up the schedule and running our installment of From the Back Seat today, then getting Behind the Wheel on Wednesday, for reasons that will become apparent shortly. My mom's birthday was last Sunday, and since I was on Spring Break
Read moreWe are on record as LEGO lovers around here (fun fact: my first job was operating rides at Legoland!), and one of the Danish toy giant's coolest programs is the LEGO Ideas process, which affirms that everyone who builds with the bricks is a designer by
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Read moreWhen my grandfather died last year, I inherited his collection of Road & Track magazines, encompassing nearly every issue from 1950 to
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With its new Volkswagen Beetle model joining the classic T1 Camper Van, LEGO has classic VW fans covered two ways I take the "nerd" part of Automotive Nerdery very seriously, so it goes without saying that when LEGO's new Volkswagen Beetle set came out, I made
Read moreThis is something that's been bothering me for years. Below are several examples of this mysterious phenomenon that seems to overwhelmingly effect third-generation Volkswagen Jettas, introduced to the U.S. as the Jetta III in 1993 and sold here (sans "III" after the first year) until
Read moreTrue confession time. I still own my first car. We've been together since I was 17. I've put over 30,000 mostly trouble-free miles on it, although it hasn't been my primary car since I was in college, and it has brought me a great deal
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