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1970 Rover P6 3500 S

Rover P6: Modern Disguised as Traditional

in British Cars on 08/29/2020 08/30/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

James Bond might have driven Astons, but George Smiley was a Rover P6 man. Alec Guinness gave Smiley international TV fame two years after Star Wars, and two years after P6 production ended. Guinness was…

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1977 Cadillac Seville

Cadillac Seville Mk1: Arriving in Style

in American Cars on 08/22/2020 08/22/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

Usually, big corporate decisions aren’t made on the Friday before Christmas. But in the case of the Cadillac Seville, that’s exactly what happened. Circumstances dictated the urgency.  On December 21, 1973, a breezy, cold and…

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1989 Pontiac LeMans GSE

1987-93 Pontiac LeMans: Partners at Odds

in Korean Cars World Cars on 08/15/2020 11/10/2021 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

It seemed like a great idea – take a respected small car designed in Germany, where engineers know about good dynamics and quality cars, manufacture it cheaply in South Korea, then sell it in America…

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Saab 9-7x

Saab 9-7x: An Oldsmobile Becomes a TrollBlazer

in Swedish Cars Trucks on 08/14/2020 08/14/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

Not-so-old Motors today and the famous (infamous?) “TrollBlazer.” Saab’s 9-7x was the least Saab-like Saab of all time and came to be a symbol of GM’s mishandling of its Swedish subsidiary. It seemed like an…

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1963 Bonnet Djet

Bonnet Djet: The Mid-Engined Arms Race

in French Cars on 08/08/2020 08/08/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

The “D” in Djet was there purely for pronunciation purposes. The car’s creator, the already famous René Bonnet, wasn’t sure if his fellow French would properly pronounce the English-language word “Jet!” the way he wanted….

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1967 Toyota S800

Toyota Sports 800: Toyota’s Little Lotus

in Japanese Cars on 08/01/2020 06/14/2023 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

Today the Toyota Sports 800 seems so different from the kinds of cars Toyota is largely famous for that it’s hard to believe the same folks who came up with the Corolla also designed it….

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1962 Auto Union 1000S

Auto Union 1000S: First and Last and Always

in German Cars on 07/25/2020 07/25/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

The four linked rings are most associated with Audi today, but they originated with Auto Union. The “Union” was an agglomeration of four German companies – Audi, DKW, Horch, and Wanderer, that came together under…

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1991 Infiniti M30

Infiniti M30: The Leopard’s Different Spots

in Japanese Cars on 07/18/2020 07/18/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

It was new to Americans, but the Infiniti M30 was almost half a decade old when it first appeared in what were then brand new Infiniti showrooms in 1990. Baseball-loving Japanese would refer to the…

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1974 Suzuki Carry

Flashback: The Yaki Imo Man’s Suzuki

in Flashback Japanese Cars Trucks on 07/09/2020 07/09/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

Feeling down? Need some comfort food? Don’t worry, the Yaki Imo man is here to help. In this flashback, we take a trip through the OldMotors archives to Japan, circa 1976, and this Suzuki Carry…

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1958 MG ZB Magnette Varitone

Z Magnette: MG’s Modern Sports Sedan

in British Cars on 07/05/2020 07/04/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

MG is so closely associated with sports cars that some people forget the company always built family cars. The earliest MGs were, of course, just tuner car versions of Morrises, often complete with room for…

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1970 Saab 95

Saab 95: Swedish Family Style

in Swedish Cars on 07/01/2020 07/01/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

The Saab 95 was the first car from Trollhätten to truly expand on the Saab formula. It arrived a decade after the first production Saab, the 92, but its roots in the “Ursaab” project of…

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1956 Packard Caribbean Convertible

1956 Packard Caribbean: Last of the Line

in American Cars on 06/21/2020 10/26/2024 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

1956 would end up being the last year of the “real” Packards – many regarded the Studebaker-based models of 1957-58 as a kind of strange hybrid (sometimes derisively referred to as “Packardbakers”). But even though…

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