Search
Search Only:

Search Keyword 1970s

Total: 46 results found.

Page 1 of 3
1. The MGB
(Matching tags: 1970s)
some text Click here to read more about the 1962-1980 MGB, MGB-GT, MGC, and MGRV8
It was the automotive story for almost a decade: former GM superstar John DeLorean had set out to build his own high-tech sports car, only to end up in handcuffs. This week, we present the complete saga ...
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 ...
It was born as a glorified Dodge Coronet with a fastback roof; in its later incarnations, it became a facelifted Chrysler Cordoba, a Plymouth Horizon in drag, and even a family sedan. In between, it became ...
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 ...
When the first BMW 6-Series appeared in 1976, many BMW partisans dismissed it as an overpriced, overweight boulevardier, inferior to the company's sporty sedans. When production finally ended 13 years ...
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 ...
Designed as a Volkswagen, powered by an Audi engine, Porsche's entry-level 924 rubbed many purists the wrong way. In 1982, a new look and a new engine transformed it into an eighties icon, a favorite toy ...
Although Porsche and Volkswagen hadn't exactly set the world on fire with their first joint-venture sports car, the 914, the two companies decided to try again in the early seventies with the Porsche 924. ...
The 1976 Cadillac Seville was Detroit's first response to the growing popularity of luxury imports like Mercedes. Although it was an immediate hit, earning a handsome profit and inspiring numerous imitators, ...
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 ...
For most people, the words "Ford Mustang" evoke one of two things: the original 1964-66 icon of sixties Americana, or the boxy Reagan-era "5.0s" so beloved of amateur hot rodders. This week, we consider ...
14. Top Cat: The E-Type Jaguar
(Matching tags: 1970s)
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 ...
Certain cars become emblematic of a time and a place, perfectly encapsulating the values, priorities, and obsessions of their eras. For America of the fifties, it's the 1955-57 Chevrolets and the '59 Cadillac; ...
Launched in 1983, the Pontiac Fiero promised to be a good-looking, affordable mid-engine sports car, introducing exciting new techniques in production and design. Alas, it proved to be one of GM's great ...
If you're an American over 30, you may have some hazy, not necessarily happy memories of Renault's "Le Car," sold here from 1976 through 1983. To Europeans, who will need little introduction, it was known ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >>