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Headlight Heaven: Adding J.W. Speaker 8700 Evo 2 LED Lights

January 29, 2019 / Andy Lilienthal / 8 Comments
JW Speaker 8700 Evo 2 headlights Mitsubishi

Back when we had the PDXJ, our 2001 Jeep Cherokee, one of the upgrades we made was replacing the OE headlights with J.W. Speaker LED headlamps. The headlights were a huge improvement over the Jeep’s stock headlights which worked about as well as whale oil lanterns.

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Our Eight Great Holiday Adventure Gifts

December 12, 2018 / Andy Lilienthal / 1 Comment
Jeep with Christmas Lights

Looking for holiday gift ideas for the adventurer in your life? Here are eight great gifts suggestions for all of budgets. 

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Review: Yokohama Geolandar A/T G015 All-Terrain Tires

December 1, 2017 / Andy Lilienthal / 5 Comments
Yokohama Geolandar G015 tires on Mitsubishi Delica

Words by Andy Lilienthal. Photos by Andy and Mercedes Lilienthal Admittedly, when I get the opportunity to get new tires on any of our vehicles, I get excited to see how they’ll perform. This holds especially true with tires that I’ll take off road because there are so many performance variables. It’s not just wet/dry…

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Review: Magellan eXplorist TRX7 GPS

April 25, 2017 / Mercedes Lilienthal / 2 Comments
Magellan TRX7

You can have the most capable and built off-road rig, the coolest and most expensive gear, and all the desire in the world to conquer your adventure—but if you don’t know where you’re going, you may as well stay home or play in the mall parking lot. Enter the Magellan eXplorist TRX7 GPS.

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Driving the 2017 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport

February 1, 2017 / Andy Lilienthal / 3 Comments

A couple weeks ago, Portland got nailed by a 40-year snow storm. P-town rarely gets any snow let alone 12” of the stuff. And wouldn’t you know it, the day before it hits, we take delivery of the 2017 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport. The roads in Portland are terrible during a snow event—like really, really bad….

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2017 Mitsubishi Mirage G4 Review

November 17, 2016 / Andy Lilienthal / 1 Comment
Mitsubishi Mirage G4

What weighs just over a ton and has a big booty? If you said the 2017 Mitsubishi Mirage G4 sedan, you’d be right. If you guessed a rhinoceros, you’d also be right. Continue reading

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Review: Yokohama Geolandar MT+ Tires

November 15, 2016 / Andy Lilienthal / Leave a comment
Yokohama Geolandar MT+ review

I’ll make no apologies: I like Yokohama tires. I first had  Yokohamas back in 2006 when I got a set of 205/50/16 AVS ES100 tires for my Scion xB . A couple years later, I shod my Toyota Yaris’ wheels with 195/55/15 S-Drives. In fact, I just replaced them last month with the same tires. So when…

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Video Review: 2016 Honda Civic Coupe 1.5T

September 8, 2016 / Andy Lilienthal / 1 Comment
2016 Honda Civic Coupe turbo

Which automaker still offers a FWD coupe? Yep, Honda. But be careful, that shade of green may burn out the old retinas. That sucker is BRIGHT! This 2016 Honda Civic Coupe Touring model does have a 174-horsepower 1.5-liter turbocharged engine, which has plenty-o mid-range power, however, and many other redeeming features. Head over to Subcompact…

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