Fiat Strada Renault Express/Renault Kangoo Volkswagen Caddy


Fiat Strada. This here rig comes in two flavors: the older models are tiny lil' pickups — real small, but scrappy. The newer ones, up to about five years old, are more like big ol' Isuzu Troopers or Toyota Hilux trucks — real workhorses, built tough for the long haul.

You can trick these babies out real nice, slap on some chrome, lift the suspension, add a light bar — make ’em look mean and mighty fine.

And get this: 'bout ten years back, Fiat went and bought out the whole dang Chrysler group. Yup, the whole enchilada. These days, a lotta their rides look a whole lot like Chryslers and Dodges. That goes for Lancia and Alfa Romeo too — all of ’em got a bit of that American muscle flair now.



Renault Kangoo. This baby rolled onto the scene back in '99 — 'round the same time my old man got a real hankerin’ to buy one. It's still one slick-lookin’ box-on-wheels, and you can even get it in a tall-boy version with four-wheel drive for takin’ on dirt roads or muddy ranch trails.

Renault’s got solid build quality — right up there with Citroën and Peugeot, maybe even a notch better than Fiat if you ask me.

Now if you're the kind that likes standin’ out at the truck meet, you can deck this Kangoo out real wild — throw on some fat rims, drop that suspension low, slap on some gullwing doors, and load the cargo bay with a monster sound system and a whole mess of chrome.

And if you got yourself the 4x4 version? Shoot, you can go full off-road cowboy: bull bar up front, side steps, chunky mud tires, and lights blazin’ from the grille all the way over the windshield. Turn heads at the rodeo and the trailhead.



Volkswagen Caddy. Got a buddy just bought himself a five-year-old Caddy for his contractor gig — tough little workhorse, and yeah, you can soup it up and style it just like the rest of ’em.

Now there's this artist fella from Bærum — lives way out yonder, even for the Oslo area. He drives an old Caddy too, one o' them 90s models, bless its rusty soul. That poor ol' Caddy's parked 25 minutes from the nearest gate, which ya gotta unlock with an actual key, and 'bout 30 minutes from a bus that only runs once an hour out to Kattås in Bærum. And get this — it takes 45 minutes to an hour to get to Sandvika, dependin' on traffic and whether the elk are feelin' frisky that day.

Nearest store? Forty minutes away, partner. And every winter, that poor Caddy gets buried under six feet o’ snow — no garage, no mercy. Just sittin’ out there in the wild like an abandoned sled dog waitin’ for spring.

Renault Express. That’s the granddaddy of the Kangoo, and yessir — you can mod that thing too. Slam it down low, give it some chrome, tune the engine ‘til it screams louder than a coyote on a cold night.

Fiat Strada, Renault Express, Renault Kangoo, Volkswagen Caddy — once you’ve done ’em up right, with big rims, loud pipes, deep bass, and wild paint — you’re gonna be a magnet for the ladies. It’ll be all smoke, beats, and horsepower everywhere you roll. So keep an eye on your artist cat, now — don’t let it miss that one lonely bus rollin’ out to civilization!


(Volkswagen Caddy, like the one that artist fella was drivin’.)









(Two artist cats headin’ to the bus through the wild backcountry.)



























Kommentarer

Legg inn en kommentar

Populære innlegg fra denne bloggen

Porsche 911, Porsche 914 and Volkswagen Beetle RS Porsche

Bilde
(Here's a prototype from around 2020 of the old-school Beetle.) Volkswagen Beetle is often considered the first truly modern car. Hitler wanted a people's car, and he preferred it to be round and streamlined. The choice landed on Ferdinand Porsche's project, the Beetle. Despite being a major project of Nazi Germany and Hitler, who are responsible for the deaths of around 60 million people and a world in ruins, the Beetle became a real hit after the war. The Beetle was so popular that in the early 1970s, it became the world's best-selling car. Production continued only in South America after that, where it was produced and sold until 2003. In the rest of the West, it had a long hiatus of over 20 years, during which it was replaced by the Golf. However, in the 1990s, a new model called the New Beetle was introduced, first sold in the USA in 1996. It didn't arrive in Norway until 1998. But I remember the first one in Bærum sat for a long time at Bærum Bilutleie in Has...
Les mer

Lada 1500 concept and Lada 1500 3G and 4G street cars

Bilde
Below, you’ll find a picture of the Lada 1500 concept along with a sporty version of the Lada 1500 above. Unfortunately, the concept car never made it into production. The Lada 1500 3G and 4G are more akin to classic cars than true modern street cars, as they are built on a Fiat model from the 1960s. Lada launched its last versions of these models in 1979 and 1982. By that time, Lada had already produced two versions of the Fiat 1500, based on models from the 1950s and 60s, earlier in the 1970s. In this link , you can see an awesome Lada 1500 3G with an engine from the Nissan Skyline . There’s a saying that Russians and people from former Soviet states often use: 'A Lada, it has a Porsche engine!' Supposedly, Porsche tried to modify the Lada 1500 by collaborating with Lada back in 1976 on the 2103 model . This collaboration fell through, but Porsche later entered into another partnership where they allegedly built a Lada Samara with an engine from the legendary Porsche 9...
Les mer