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CC Outtake: VW Rabbit (Golf Mk I) With Ultra-Reclining Seats
VW Rabbits (Golf Mk I) are starting to get a bit scarce here too, along with so many older cars. Actually, I’m amazed at how many there still are, for a car that started out life as a rather fragile...
View ArticleCC Vintage Film Strip: 1970 Dodge Scat Pack – The Lingo of Selling Performance
There’s a huge collection of Mopar dealer education film strips out there on YouTube, and they lean to the corny side. Oh but not this groovy gem. Hey mister Dodge salesman, are you hip to the lingo...
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Vintage R&T Review: 1974 Toyota Corona SR Coupe –“Solid, Safe, and Sporty,...
The Corona was growing steadily since its start as a rather small little thing. But it was also becoming much more comfortable, and ever-more suited to American drivers looking for an alternative. The...
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QOTD/Reader Sighting: Lost 1959 Cadillac Prototype or Someone’s Backyard...
(ED1984 left this photo and comment at our Submissions page) I saw this car carrier with two Cadillac’s and a Plymouth on I-95 in Baltimore. Some folks on another board seem to think the the two-door...
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Cohort Outtake: 1968 Beaumont – SD396? Maybe, But With the Wrong Badging
What have we here from that alternate universe to the north of us? Looks like a ’69 Chevelle Malibu with a Pontiacesque (that already sounds like a Canadian car) nose job. Well, it is just that. The...
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Kurbside Classic: 1983 Grumman KubVan – Tiny, FWD, VW Diesel Powered, And...
(first posted 5/4/2013. One of my better finds) The early eighties was the most revolutionary and unique time in the American automobile industry ever. Thanks to exploding oil and fuel prices, and...
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QOTD: Why Wasn’t the BMW 2002 Touring Hatchback Sold in the US? Would It Have...
Speaking of relatively unusual BMWs, this shot of an 1802 Touring posted at the Cohort by Martin Reiss made me wonder: why wasn’t the hatchback Touring body imported to the US? I don’t have time to...
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QOTD: Is This the Sedan of the Future? Back to the Future
With all of this heated talk about the death of the sedan, I’d like to reiterate a point I’ve been making for as long as I’ve been blogging: The modern, low-to-the-ground sedan originated from a...
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CC Outtake: 1987 Audi 5000 S – The Last One Still On the Road Here?
I know this Audi 500 is still being driven, as I saw it pull up to the curb here. I’ve seen a couple of grimy ones sitting around that look quite immobile, but this one looks downright hale and...
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Vintage Mechanix Illustrated Review: Tom McCahill Tests the 1953 Studillac –...
The early 50s were a very fertile time for automotive creativity, and engine swapping was as rampant as wife swapping (supposedly) was in certain parts of the country a decade later. We looked at a...
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A Big Thank You to Eric703, Who Labors Behind the Scenes to Keep Our...
I’ve been feeling a lot of gratitude lately about CC. We are privileged to have a wide range of contributors here, some of whom create content worthy of the finest books. That is anything but typical...
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Curbside Classic: 1977 Lincoln Versailles – Pig In A Poke
(first posted 4/17/2013) Deception–and self deception–is a very significant factor in the automobile business, maybe the biggest. Unless we buy a stripper Corolla (so conveniently parked here) or...
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CC Outtake/QOTD: The Best Selling Cars, Almost 50 Years Apart. What Will the...
Although they’re only some 44-48 years apart, these two make a nice pairing to give an idea of the evolution of the best selling cars in the US in their times, and almost a half century apart. And of...
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Curbside Classic: 1966 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser – The Kiddie Wagon
(first posted 4/20/2015) The Vista Cruiser had “GM” written all over it. Nobody but General Motors had the kinds of huge engineering and development budgets that spawned cars like the Corvair, the...
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Curbside Classic: 1966 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 – The Best $3,000 Big Sedan In...
(first posted 3/19/2015) If you were a typical white-skin, white-collar middle-class Pop with a wife and 2.3 kids, and were looking to spend three grand on a nice-ish white sedan in 1966, you could...
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CC Capsule: Cube Squared, and Squares Cubed – A Look at the Near-Forgotten...
CC reader Franco P. sent me this shot of two Nissan Cubes side-by-side. A while back, this might not have been so unusual, but the Cube is quickly slipping into obscurity, at least from a subjective...
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Vintage R&T Review: Jaguar XJ-S – The Brougham-Era Replacement for the E-Type
The XJ-S was something of a shock for those Jaguar fans expecting a more direct successor to the legendary XK-E. Instead, the XJ-S was a plush coupe built of the XJ sedan’s platform, and emphasized...
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The Autonocast #73 – Two Niedermeyers For the Price of One: Ed, Paul and Alex...
My son Ed, Alex Roy and Kirsten Korosec have recorded some 72 episodes of the Autonocast, with its focus on the rapidly evolving world of autonomy and related subjects. For podcast #73, the subject...
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Cohort Spy Shot: Ford’s Solution to the Focus Sedan Problem
By now you’re sick of hearing about Ford’s axing all of its sedans in favor of more trucks. The Focus sedans are of course on the black list. But in order not waste all of the huge investment in its...
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Curbside Classic: 1963 Ford Econoline Pickup – Keep The Sand Bags Handy
(first posted 4/14/2013) History does tend to repeat itself, especially in the car business. Detroit’s more recent efforts to compete with import compact trucks was once a serious undertaking, but...
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