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1. Jet Crash: Hudson's Compact Jet
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When it was first announced in 1952, Hudson officials thought the compact Jet would be a renaissance for the venerable automaker. Today, many historians will tell you it was Hudson's fatal mistake. This ...
... of hot engines that transformed Studebaker's humble compact Lark into a ferocious -- and unlikely -- performance car. This week, we look at the final days of Studebaker and the birth of the Super Lark. ...
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 ...
4. Ramble and Roll: The Compact Nash Rambler
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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 ...
Advertised as "Nobody's Kid Brother," Chrysler's compact Valiant was originally intended to be its own marque. The story of how it became a Plymouth is a complicated one, going back to the origins of the ...
Diminutive size, clown-car looks, and Fifties-style two-tone paint -- it could only be the Nash Metropolitan. Designed in Wisconsin and built in England, the Met was one of America's first subcompact cars. ...
In late 1959, Ford Motor Company released the smallest car it had sold in the U.S. since the 1930s: the Ford Falcon. The Falcon proved to be the most successful of Detroit's new breed of compact cars, ...
Today, there are quite a few American buyers who have never purchased a domestic-brand car, and who are as loyal to Toyota or Honda as a previous generation was to Ford or Chevrolet. It was not always ...
9. High, Wide, and Handsome: The AMC Pacer
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Even when the compact Gremlin bowed in 1970, AMC knew it would not be enough to stem the tide of imported subcompact cars. By the beginning of 1971, the company was already at work on a follow-up. When ...
... and James Bond -- a revolutionary little shoebox on wheels that rewrote the rules for compact cars. This week, we look at the history of the original Mini. Click here to read more about the 1959-2000 ...