Chrysler’s Plymouth brand was created in 1928 (and named after a brand of twine favored by farmers), in order to compete against Ford and Chevrolet for entry-level car shoppers. Plymouth stayed in third place in the US-market new-car sales hit parade for most of the years through the early 1950s and remained a strong (if
The Toyota Celica started out as a sporty hardtop coupe based on the Carina sedan, in conscious imitation of the Falcon-derived first-generation Ford Mustang. While the Carina never caught on in North America, its Celica sibling sold very well here from the time of its American debut as a 1971 model and deep into the
Citroën introduced the motoring world to the Traction-Avant in 1934, and that front-drive unibody machine was so futuristic that it stayed in production all the way through 1957. Naturally, Citroën had to make the Traction-Avant’s successor even more radical, and the result was an engineering and styling masterpiece that seemed like something dropped down to the
Kandi has been selling off-road machinery in the United States for quite some time, generating occasional talk about building affordable EVs here in recent years. Yes, Kandi-badged golf karts, dirt bikes, dune buggies, karts and other non-highway-legal machines have been commonplace in North America for decades… but today’s Kandi-built Junkyard Gem is a something a
Car shoppers in the United States were able to buy the proto-S-Class W126 Mercedes-Benz beginning in 1980 and continuing through 1991, and I’ve documented quite a few of these luxurious machines in forced retirement. Other than a gray-market 280 SEL and a pair of beat-up 300 SDs with a half-million miles apiece, all of those
Before General Motors created the Geo brand for cars built or designed by its overseas partners, the Chevrolet Division put its badges on U.S.-market versions of the Toyota Corolla Sprinter, the Suzuki Cultus and the Isuzu Gemini. Those cars were known as the Nova, the Sprint and the Spectrum, and all became Geos starting with
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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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
