Joel Peñaló

I’m driving about on a Sunday morning; minding my own business, just chilling. It’s 40°C out and I come up to a red light. The sun blazes thru my driver side window as I’m adjusting my air vents. After a quick sigh I look up; I wasn’t paying much attention to it before, but now that it was directly in front of my it grabbed my full attention: a pickup truck carrying a car on a trailer behind it. So what? Nothing too special, innit? It wasn’t the idea of being in tow, rather what was in tow: A 1963 Austin Healey 3000.

I know we’re only slightly past halfway throught the decade, but the way things are going, the petrol engines we know and love are starting to reach their twilight years. V12s are being swapped for V8’s, V8’s to 6’s and 6’s to 4’s and 3’s. In a time where manufacturers and bean counters are favouring utmost efficiency and low emissions, let’s take a step back and celebrate some of the best engines we’ve seen over the past 6 years, stretching back to 2010 thru 2016.

This image above SHOULD put this subject into enough perspective for you. But if not, let me take you through a journey of the repressed life of a petrolhead in the Dominican Republic. <b><big> Y </b></big>ep.

So I’m on holiday after my first semester in University, and I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, so better late than never; here we go. Start it up in the morning, hear the tinny exhaust note; rev it up, hear the turbo spool. Cling on for dear life and enjoy yourself while you’re at it. These sentences somewhat describe what it’s like to own a 2015 Subaru WRX.

And I know I’m going to get a lot of BS for this. But really, I hope I’m not the only one here who believes in God. Is….is there anybody else out there?