About Craig Daugherty

Writer, amateur photographer, and BMW nerd to the core.

Best Visual and Handling Performance Upgrades for Your VW

This is the second part to last week’s introduction to our hand-picked performance upgrades every VW deserves. From the highly popular GTI to the less prevalent enthusiast platforms like the Atlas and Tiguan, our team of Volkswagen gurus have picked out exactly what we think the foundation for a VW build should be. This week, [...]

2023-04-09T09:57:17-04:00April 8th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Best Visual and Handling Performance Upgrades for Your VW

Best Performance Upgrades for Adding Power to your VW

If you’ve followed our humble little blog since we revived it earlier this year, you likely know that we’ve been focused on budget builds, affordable enthusiast cars, and DIY jobs to reduce your cost of ownership. Now, our next few articles will be a bit more performance focused rather than price focused. This week, it’s [...]

2023-04-01T11:11:06-04:00April 1st, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Best Performance Upgrades for Adding Power to your VW

Making Enthusiast Ownership Affordable: Tools for the Job

If you’ve read the past few articles in our little miniseries, you’re either totally on-board with my theory that “cool” cars and enthusiast ownership are still attainable even on a budget, or you think I’m full of it. Regardless, we’ve touched on examples of enthusiast cars unaffected by inflation, we’ve talked about how to affordably [...]

2023-03-25T19:28:17-04:00March 25th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Making Enthusiast Ownership Affordable: Tools for the Job

Making Enthusiast Ownership Affordable: Next Level “While You’re In There” Jobs

Last week we talked about preventative maintenance and how doing services at home strategically is what can make enthusiast ownership more affordable. This “while you’re in there” mentality is the focus this week as we discuss more tips and tricks for maintaining your car and preserving your wallet. By being extremely strategic and organizing your [...]

2023-03-18T14:20:43-04:00March 18th, 2023|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Making Enthusiast Ownership Affordable: Next Level “While You’re In There” Jobs

Why the MK5 GTI is Your Next Budget VW

After last week’s article praising the E46 base model, I’m sure you’re already thinking I’m crazy. This week, there’s more weight to that claim because I’m about to sing the praises of the MK5 GTI. Yes, the often forgotten middle-child of the GTI family is the focus today. I’m here to tell you why it’s [...]

2023-02-18T13:15:03-05:00February 18th, 2023|Uncategorized|1 Comment

Base Model or Bust: Why the BMW E46 3-Series is the Next Hot Scene Car

Alright, now that we’ve talked about overland things for the past few weeks, I’m sure those of you who are here for ‘performance’ cars and ‘project’ cars are ready for something that appeals more to your wheelhouse. So, let’s leave the overland things alone for a while and kick off the next mini-series: affordable project [...]

2023-02-11T23:22:13-05:00February 11th, 2023|Uncategorized|3 Comments