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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 ...
... 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 ...
As the 1950s dawned, Packard was down, but not yet out. In 1952, a hotshot salesman from the appliance industry tried to turn it around with new tactics and new technology. He came close to succeeding, ...
4. 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 ...
5. Stayin' Alive: The Chevrolet Monte Carlo
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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; ...
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 ...
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 ...
8. Mr. Average: The 1967 Chevrolet Impala
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If any car deserves to be called the archetypal sixties American automobile, it's the Chevrolet Impala. In 1965, the peak of its popularity, one in every nine new cars sold in the United States was an ...
Thirty years ago, the watchword of the auto industry was downsizing. Driven by high oil prices and ever-increasing emission standards, American automakers were forced to dramatically reduce the size ...
Designing, building, and marketing new cars is expensive, even for the largest automakers. If they're strapped for cash (e.g., BMC in the fifties and sixties) or overcome by hubris (e.g., General Motors ...
11. George Hurst and the "Hairy Olds"
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In our history of the Olds 4-4-2, we mentioned that it was not exactly the leader of the pack when it came to Supercar performance. To rectify that problem, Oldsmobile joined forces with Hurst Performance ...