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The first Volkswagen Beetle in America looked like this

On Jan. 17, 1949, the Holland America Line Westerdam pulled into New York Harbor from Rotterdam carrying the seed of an automotive empire. It had been only four years since Volkswagen resurrected operations in Wolfsburg, the factory heavily ruined by Allied forces and now under the command of Major Ivan Hirst.

Rolls-Royce Pinnacle Travel Phantom at the 2014 Beijing Motor Show

Rolls-Royce has unveiled this excess-all-areas Pinnacle Travel Phantom at the 2014 Beijing Motor Show. It's designed to showcase Rolls' personalisation programme, dubbed Bespoke Collection, and is inspired by the era of luxury steam train travel. If you've got the readies, Rolls-Royce will tailor your luxury car to your exact whim – and this is the result.

Cheap mods: Adventures In Aspect Ratios

Seven years ago, I bought a rough-looking-but-good-running 1992 Honda Civic DX hatchback, for use as a gas-sipping alternative to my daily-driver P71 Crown Victoria. These days, it's the car I drive when it snows in Denver, and it's a reliable all-around beater. The EG Civic (as the 1992-95 Civic hatchback was designated by the factory) has become a much-sought-after classic in recent years, sort of the '55 Chevy of the early 21st century, and there's such a vast array of factory and aftermarket performance hardware available that I haven't been able to resist the idea of doing some power and suspension upgrades.