Jakob
Computer Engineering student, on CT since 2013 when there still was the Disqus system.
Articles by Jakob

AWE R3 - The Now-Forgotten Porsche 550 Competitor #blogpost
The Porsche 550 is a car that is well-known amongst classic car enthusiasts for winning numerous Grand Prixs and amongst the classic move enthusiasts for killing James Dean.

Opel Commodore GS/E - The German Muscle-ish Car #blogpost
Commodore? Does that ring a bell? I guess so. Nowadays the name Commodore is reserved for cars that have thousands of dollars spent under the bonnet just so that they could do a burnout as big as possible. However, that wasn’t always the case.

Are People Forgetting What The Supra Was? #blogpost
With the eventual release of the next generation Supra coming closer and closer, you read it more often than once that people think what the Mk.IV was and what the Mk.V must be. Mostly these are people who weren’t even born when the production of the Mk.IV ended and will never be able to buy the Mk.V anyways, but that’s beside the point.

Top 10 Underrated 1980s Euro Cars #blogpost
Think of an 1980s European car. Just one. Done? Okay. You thought of one of the following: BMW M3, Ford Sierra Cosworth, Audi Quattro, Lamborghini Countach.

EMW 340 - The Unknown Not-A-BMW #blogpost
In a post yesterday, I did a small guess-the-car ( https://www.carthrottle.com/post/wp6m684/ ), and apparently not many people knew the car in question was an EMW 340. Well, I wouldn’t judge them for that.
Melkus RS 1000 - The Socialist Supercar #blogpost
Some of you may have heard of the Elise-base sports car with the funny name and the ludicrous price tag. But did you know that this surely wasn’t the first car of the manufacturer? The Melkus originally was developed in 1968 by the former racing driver Heinz Melkus as a celebration for the 20th anniversary of the GDR.