The Mazda MX-5 Miata has been with us for nearly 35 years now, giving the world what it had lacked for so long: a two-seat convertible that was just as affordable and fun as the MGB or Fiat 124 Sport Spider had been… but without the horrid reliability and leaky tops of those cars. Intact
Ford and General Motors spent most of the 1970s and a few years of the 1980s selling rebadged small trucks made by Japanese partners: the Ford Courier (Mazda Proceed) and Chevrolet LUV (Isuzu Faster). GM began selling a genuine Detroit mini-pickup — the Chevrolet S-10/GMC S-15—as a 1982 model, beating Ford and its new Ranger
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Continue reading Junkyard Gem: 1997 Ford Aspire 3-Door Hatchback
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North American car shoppers in the early 1970s had plenty of choices when it came to big, powerful Detroit hardtop coupes at affordable prices. General Motors led the 1971 big-coupe-for-small-bucks sales race with the Impala and Caprice, with Pontiac offering good deals on Catalina Broughams as well. Ford was right there with the LTD and
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Continue reading Junkyard Gem: 1971 Ford LTD Brougham 2-Door Hardtop
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The Leone is the car that turned Subaru from the butt of jokes into a respected brand in the United States, and it was available here from 1972 all the way through the very last 1994 Loyales. As the 1980s went on, the four-wheel-drive wagon versions became most popular among American Subaru shoppers, but hatchbacks,
Mercedes-Benz didn’t start using the C-Class designation until the 1994 model year, when the first W202-platform cars arrived in showrooms. The W202’s C-Class-in-all-but-name predecessor was the very successful W201, sold here for the 1984 through 1993 model years. In this series, we’ve seen an example of the most common early variety of U.S.-market W201, the
Once Toyota began selling enlarged Celicas with six-cylinder engines and Supra badges here in 1979, the Supra kept getting more powerful and more expensive and the regular four-banger Celica seemed less exciting with each passing year. For the 1986 model year, the Celica went to a brand-new front-wheel-drive platform and became a true slick-looking commuter
Just about every U.S.-market Mercury model ever made was an obvious Ford- and/or Lincoln-badged sibling (though some of those siblings originated in other countries). The members of the 1957 Mercury lineup were mechanically similar to their Ford Empire brethren, but got wild styling that looked like nothing else on the road. Today’s Junkyard Gem is
When it came time to replace the original Ford Maverick compact, which had sold well but was based on the increasingly antiquated chassis design first used under the 1960 Falcon, Ford turned to its brand-new Fox platform and created the Fairmont (and its Mercury-badged sibling, the Zephyr) for the 1978 model year. There were Fairmont
