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1967 Mercedes 200 W110

Shaping Safety: Béla Barényi and the “Fintail”

in German Cars on 06/06/2020 06/06/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

Mercedes were purposefully meant to be timeless in the eyes of Daimler-Benz’s chief engineer Fritz Nallinger, but including the subtle fins on the new Heckflosse sedans forever linked the W110, W111, and W112 designs (collectively…

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1978 Ford Fairmont

Ford Fairmont: The First Fox

in American Cars on 05/30/2020 09/03/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

The Ford Fairmont was Dearborn’s first “downsized” car. Unlike GM, Ford started at the middle of its lineup post-OPEC and worked outward. But like GM’s “Project 77” cars, what became the Fairmont actually started off…

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1948 MG TC

MG TC: The Archetypal British Sports Car

in British Cars on 05/24/2020 05/24/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

It was 10 years old and looked archaic on paper, but the MG TC was the right car for its place and time in a way few cars have ever been. Just 10,001 were made…

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1991 Subaru Justy

Subaru Justy: The Little Guy

in Japanese Cars on 05/10/2020 11/10/2021 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

It was basic transportation in the eyes of American consumers. As small a car as you could get, with as small an engine as many of them could remember. The Subaru Justy, which arrived on…

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1946 Jeep CJ-2A

Willys CJ-2A: After Demobilization

in American Cars Trucks on 05/09/2020 05/09/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

It’s 75 years and one day since WW2 ended (technically, it’s “victory day” in several countries today), and one of the defining vehicular legacies of that time is the Willys Jeep. The war changed far…

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1979 Fiat 132

Fiat 132: Familiar but Forgotten

in Italian Cars on 05/02/2020 11/10/2021 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

It wasn’t originally meant to be a “flagship.” When the Fiat 132 was new, it was just the latest iteration of Fiat’s large family car – descended from the old Fiat 1400/1500 and its immediate…

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1980 Pontiac Firebird Esprit Yellowbird

1980 Pontiac Yellowbird: Birds of a Feather

in American Cars on 04/26/2020 03/09/2025 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

It sure is yellow! And appropriately so, since this is a Pontiac Firebird “Yellowbird,” a one-year-only special model for 1980, obtained by checking off RPO W73. By this time, the second-gen Firebird was ten years…

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1992 Mazda Navajo

Mazda Navajo: Kentucky, not Hiroshima

in Japanese Cars on 04/18/2020 04/18/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

“America builds one for the Japanese!” read the headline introducing the Mazda Navajo. It came after almost two decades of American brands offering “captive import” Japanese vehicles (starting in the early 1970s with the Dodge…

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1978 Oldsmobile 98 Diesel

1978 Oldsmobile 98 LF9: Distressed Diesel

in American Cars on 04/12/2020 04/12/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

By 1977 it had plenty of hsitory. Oldsmobile’s flagship Ninety Eight dated back to 1941 (spawned to replace the 1940 series 90) and had ridden GM’s big C-body with Cadillacs and primo Buicks ever since….

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1984 Lada 2106

VAZ-2106: The People’s Favorite Lada

in Eastern Bloc Cars on 04/05/2020 05/30/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

The definitive version in Soviet times was the VAZ-2106, but there were many iterations of the basic Lada package. What else would you expect from a car with such a long lifespan? The first Ladas…

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1996 Volkswagen Golf Harlequin

Harlequin Golf: The Technicolor Dreamcoat

in German Cars on 03/28/2020 04/04/2024 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

Those colors are unmistakable – it can only be the Volkswagen Harlequin Golf. It’s one of the most unusual special editions ever offered in the USA and proved incomprehensible to Americans. Fewer than 300 were…

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Škoda 1201

Škoda 1200 & 1201: Modern for Mladá Boleslav

in Eastern Bloc Cars Flashback on 03/26/2020 03/26/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

It wasn’t the most exciting car, but what an evocative photo! The car is a Škoda 1201, an outgrowth of the closely related (and visually almost identical) Škoda 1200. The basic vehicle was the second…

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