Joe Wiesenfelder

Car Reviews


Newspaper Reviews

Creatively Putting the Kibosh on Cretinous Career-Crushing CrapMovie reviews are traditionally presented as newspaper or magazine articles… or broadcast via radio or television. Well, cartoonist Rick Trembles took it upon himself to try something a bit different and do his  iconoclastic movie reviews in the form of a comic strip… which he does on a weekly basis. The strip is called “Motion Picture Purgatory” and has been featured every week since 1998 in the free weekly The Montreal Mirror.Trembles hails from Montreal, Quebec in Canada. He has tried his hand at comic books, punk rock and other forms of self-expression but he seems to have found his true calling in this weekly strip which allows him to indulge in his two favorite pastimes: drawing and watching movies. Trembles can write, too… and even if his strip were done strictly as a prose piece it would be worth looking at. He strings real and made-up words together in some of the most convoluted...

Professional Reviews

2003 BMW M3 Reviews

From 1995 through 2006, BMW of North America’s BMW M3 racing program boasted 53 wins in 118 races entered, and 14 championship trophies. The first generation M3 swept through the racing circuits of Europe like wildfire. Winning the World Touring Car Championship in 1987, eight European Championships, and an additional 60 national titles, by 1992 the E30 M3 became the most successful touring car of all time. While the car was officially sold here, North American enthusiasts read about the M3’s racing triumphs with fervor, but reading was one thing – they wanted to see it in competition for themselves. Beginning with the introduction of the second-generation E36 M3, they got exactly what they wanted – in spades. Victorious from the start BMW of North America began its first racing program only days after its incorporation in March 1975. With BAVARIAN MOTOR WORKS lettered across the top of the windshield, the overall win by a BMW Motorsport-prepared 3.0CSL at the 12 Hours of Sebring...

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