Saab sold the original 900 in the United States from the 1979 through 1993 model years (followed by another few years of Opel Vectra-based 900s), and most of the 900s you’ll find today are the higher-end models with 16-valve engines and/or turbochargers. Last year in this series, we saw a 900 Turbo and a 900
Many laughed in 1982 when GM’s Cadillac Division began selling the Cimarron, essentially a luxed-up Chevy Cavalier, at about twice the Cavalier’s price. One rung below Cadillac on GM’s Ladder of Success, the Buick Division got its own version of the Cavalier at the same time: the Skyhawk. Nobody laughed at the 1982-1989 Skyhawk’s respectable
My home state of Colorado is host to multiple wild road-and/or-off-road rallies featuring amusingly modified hoopties doing things they were never designed for. There’s the Lemons Rally, the Gambler 500 and the Rocky Mountain Rambler 500, to name a few, and — as you’d expect — many of the participating vehicles wind up in the
The first Honda Civics showed up in the United States as 1973 models, and that first generation of Soichiro Honda’s revolutionary subcompact continued to be sold here through 1979. Sales were strong, as no other small car seemed able to match the Civic’s combination of low price, excellent fuel economy, reliability and driving enjoyment, but
Once the decade of the 1990s got rolling, the Lexus LS400, Toyota Cressida, Infiniti Q45, Acura Legend and Mazda 929 had proven that big Japanese-made luxury sedans could rack up respectable sales in the United States. Mitsubishi dove into that competition starting with the 1992 model year, when the Diamante arrived on our shores. Here’s
1977 is tied with 1964 as the model year in which car shoppers in the United States could choose from the greatest number (47!) of distinct models of station wagon. Ford rightfully called itself the Wagonmaster during the 1970s, with new longroofs boasting Ford badges available in three distinct sizes for 1977 (plus three more
The Chevrolet Camaro is in its sixth generation now, with a storied reputation and nearly 6 million built since the first one came off the line in Ohio (or maybe it was California, depending on your definition of “first”) in the fall of 1966. Sadly, American car shoppers no longer love the Camaro as they
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Kia Motors got its start in the car-building business by manufacturing models designed by other companies. Most of these were Mazdas, including the first Kia-built vehicle imported to the United States: the Mazda 121-based Kia Pride, known as the Ford Festiva here. The first Kia Motors car to ride on a Kia-designed chassis was the
When I hit the junkyard, I always look for vehicles with impressive final figures showing on their odometers. I find so many Hondas and Toyotas with better than 300,000 miles that I don’t consider them especially noteworthy (the exception being super-low-spec cheap models, such as a Tercel or Civic VX), and it goes without saying
