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Written by Aaron Severson
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:22 |
After a lot of consideration, we have decided to limit comments to registered users. We'd hoped to avoid that, but in the past month, we've been besieged with spammers, who are apparently undaunted by our comment system's captchas. We're in the process of adding some new security controls, but we're tired of spending more time deleting spam than working on actual content.
If you comment regularly, or would like to, we encourage you to register.
Ate Up With Motor will not sell or share the e-mail addresses of our users with any third party. Our advertisers (Amazon and Google AdSense) may use tracking cookies of various kinds, which is outside our control, but we will not, other than the login cookie. Our main concern is preventing spam, not in besieging you with more.
Thanks for your patience.
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Got Cat Class, Got Cat Style: The Mercury Cougar |
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Tags: 1960s | 1970s | American cars | Cougar | Ford | Lee Iacocca | Mercury | Mustang | pony cars | Trans-Am
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Written by Aaron Severson
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Saturday, 20 June 2009 00:00 |
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Even as the Ford Mustang was making its smashing debut in April 1964, Ford's Lincoln-Mercury division began work on its own "pony car," a stylish coupe that sought to bridge the gap between the Mustang and the Thunderbird.
This week, we look at the origins (and many incarnations) of the Mercury Cougar.
Click here to read more about the Mercury Cougar
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Four of a Kind: The Alfa Romeo 164 and the "Type Four" Cars |
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Tags: 164 | 1980s | Alfa Romeo | Fiat | Italian cars | Lancia | Saab
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Written by Aaron Severson
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Saturday, 13 June 2009 00:00 |
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Fast, luxurious, and stylish, with a thoroughly modern platform shared with Saab, Fiat, and Lancia, the Alfa Romeo 164 could have been the hit to resuscitate Alfa's flailing business -- and put the company on the map in the German-dominated executive car market. Unfortunately, it became one of the last cars developed before Alfa fell into the hands of Fiat, and it had the dubious distinction of being the last Alfa sold in the U.S.
This week, we look at the 164 and its "Type Four" siblings: the Fiat Croma, Lancia Thema, and Saab 9000.
Click to read more about the 1988-1997 Alfa Romeo 164
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Fast Forerunner: The Jensen Interceptor and FF |
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Tags: 1960s | 1970s | all-wheel drive | British cars | Chrysler | GT cars | Interceptor | Jensen
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Written by Aaron Severson
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Saturday, 06 June 2009 00:00 |
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If you read some popular automotive histories, you might be misled into thinking that the 1980 Audi Quattro was the world's first all-wheel-drive sports coupe. Not so -- the ur-Quattro was an important pioneer in the field of AWD performance cars, but it was not first. Almost 15 years before the Quattro, the tiny British automaker Jensen introduced a powerful GT car featuring full-time four-wheel drive and even anti-lock brakes.
Based on Jensen's Interceptor coupe, the Jensen FF was an unabashed mongrel, with a British chassis, Italian styling, and an American engine, but it was also one of the most advanced and remarkable cars of its era. This week, we look at how it came to be.
Click here to read more about the Jensen Interceptor and FF
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