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1. The MGB
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The words "sporty Buick" have never quite rolled off the tongue, but over the years, Buick has produced a surprising number of performance cars, from the speedy prewar Century to the turbocharged Grand ...
3. TorqueFlite
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TORQUEFLITE
... Estes, and John DeLorean. Together, they lifted Pontiac out of its mid-fifties doldrums and put it on track for its unprecedented success in the 1960s. This week, we look back at the reign of Bunkie ...
5. Cammer: Pontiac's OHC Six
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With all the furor surrounding Ford and Chevy's new 300+ horsepower V6 Mustang and Camaro, you would think hot six-cylinder engines were a new idea, at least in America. Not so -- in 1965, about a decade ...
Originally a flashy, limited-edition image leader, by 1961, the Plymouth Fury had become a bread-and-butter big car, the mainstay of the Plymouth line. Starting in 1962, it began a bizarre odyssey, going ...
Some cars are seemingly immortal, but the Studebaker Hawk had more reincarnations than the Dalai Lama. Originally developed by the design firm of Raymond Loewy as a show car, it became a highly acclaimed ...
The AMC Javelin was American Motors' only foray into the popular "pony car" market, and the model that almost single-handedly transformed American from a peddler of Scotsman-like economy to a two-time ...
The Ford Capri, launched in 1969, was Europe's answer to the Ford Mustang, and one of the first fruits of Ford's newly unified European operations. This week, we look at the birth of "the car you always ...
With its smooth curves and clean lines, this week's subject could easily have been a prop on Space: 1999. Car and Driver called the best-styled car of 1974, but some critics still consider it one of the ...
Popular Mechanics once dubbed Chevrolet's peculiar hybrid of passenger car and pickup truck "the Cowboy Cadillac." Ford and Chevy prosaically described these crossovers as sedan pickups, while our Australian ...
12. Top Cat: The E-Type Jaguar
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Sophisticated, glamorous, gorgeous, and fast, this car is on everybody's short list of the greatest cars of all time. Its flaws are well documented, but there are few automobiles that still command more ...
By 1963, Studebaker was already doomed, but its dynamic president, Sherwood Egbert, was not yet ready to admit defeat. Not only did he launch the Avanti, he hired Andy Granatelli to develop a series ...
It sounded so promising at the time. After years of dismissing imported compacts as cars for kooks, GM was finally going to build an attractive, sophisticated subcompact, featuring the latest advances ...
Every ten years or so, the American market rediscovers the compact economy car. This "discovery" is inevitably treated by both company PR flacks and credulous journalists as a revelation, as is the idea ...
This car, another of Lee Iacocca's many product planning brainstorms, was one of Ford's greatest successes in the late sixties and early seventies. A gaudy, overstuffed personal luxury car that critics ...
17. The Little Sister: The Mercedes 190SL
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In February 1954, Mercedes-Benz introduced its first two postwar production sports cars. One was the remarkable "Gullwing" 300SL, the street version of the race car that won Le Mans in 1952. The other ...
One of the minor but contentious arguments among automotive enthusiasts and historians is the question of exactly what constitutes a muscle car. Since we'll be talking about several cars of this breed ...
When this car debuted in the fall of 1966, many Cadillac loyalists were no doubt puzzled. Not only was it the sportiest Cadillac in many a year, it was also the division's most technically daring effort ...
As many of our readers are probably aware, General Motors announced at the end of April 2009 that its venerable Pontiac division will become extinct in late 2010. This week, we take a look at the rise ...
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