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- Do Not Feed After Midnight: The AMC Gremlin
- Everybody's Kid Brother: Chrysler's Compact Valiant
- Falling Star: The Checkered History of the Chevrolet Vega
- Five by Five: The Renault 5 and the Mid-Engine Renault 5 Turbo
- From Small Things, Big Things One Day Come: The Nash Metropolitan and the Birth of American Motors
- High, Wide, and Handsome: The AMC Pacer
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- Rebel Yell: The Life and Death of the Chevrolet Corvair
- Run Rabbit Run: The Volkswagen GTI and the Birth of the Hot Hatch
- Skylark, Won't You Lead Me There? The Strange Tale of the Buick/Rover 215 and the 3800 V6
- Supermini: The Autobianchi A112 Abarth
- The Salesman and the Statistician: Robert McNamara, Lee Iacocca, and the Ford Falcon
- The Strange Odyssey of Yutaka Katayama: The Datsun 510 and the Rise of Japanese Cars in America
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- Can't Win with a Losing Hand: The Story of the Edsel
- Changing Winds: The 1934-1937 Chrysler and DeSoto Airflows
- Cowboy Cadillacs: The Chevrolet El Camino and Ford Ranchero
- Déesse Ex Machina: The Remarkable Citroën DS
- Everything Olds Is New Again: The 1960-61 Oldsmobiles and the Age of Planned Obsolescence
- Falcons Down Under: The Australian Ford Falcon, Part One
- Falcons Down Under: The Australian Ford Falcon, Part Two
- How Big Is Too Big? The Ford Fairlane and the Rise of the Midsize Car
- Kaisers Never Retrench: The History of Kaiser-Frazer, Part 1
- Kaisers Never Retrench: The History of Kaiser-Frazer, Part 2
- Lark and Super Lark: The Last Days of Studebaker
- Mercury Falling: The Mercury Breezeway Sedans
- Mr. Average: The 1967 Chevrolet Impala
- Plymouths Great and Small: The Ups and Downs of the Plymouth Fury and VIP
- Queen of the Road: The Citroën Traction Avant
- Red Rover: The Remarkable Rover P6
- Rocket Bomb: The Oldsmobile Rocket 88 and the Dawn of the American Horsepower Race
- Room at the Top: The Pontiac Star Chief and Class Consciousness in America
- Step-Down: The 1948-1954 Hudsons
- The Beauty of Speed: Harlow Curtice and the Buick Century
- The Dodge That (Almost) Ate Detroit: Chrysler's Disastrous 1962 Downsizing
- The Lion in Winter: Ford's Flathead V8 and the Fall of Henry Ford
- Wide Track: Bunkie Knudsen, Pete Estes, and the Pontiac Renaissance
- Luxury Cars
- Charge of the Light Brigade: The Last Stand of the Packard Motor Car Company
- Cheaper by the Dozen: The Curious Story of Packard's Twin Six and Twelve
- Das Boot: The 1971-1973 Boattail Riviera
- Dollar-Store Decadence: The Luxurious Ford LTD
- Empire Building: Three Stories about Chrysler's Imperial
- Fall from Grace: Packard's 1940s Cars and the Decline of America's Most Prestigious Brand
- Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38 Lightning and the Birth of Cadillac's Famous Fins
- Four of a Kind: The Alfa Romeo 164 and the "Type Four" Cars
- Glamour Is a Rocky Road: The Four-Seat Ford Thunderbird
- Great Red Shark: The 1960 Dodge Polara D-500
- In the Continental Style: The 1961-1963 Lincoln Continental
- It's (Not) Time for Imperial: Chrysler's 1981-1983 Imperial Coupe
- Kings of the Highway, Part 1: The Cadillac V-16
- Kings of the Highway, Part 2: The Cadillac V-12
- Last Great American Whale: The Cadillac Eldorado Convertible
- Less Is More: The Pontiac Grand Prix and the Politics of Downsizing
- Long and Dark, Shiny and Black: Harley Earl, Bill Mitchell, and the Cadillac Sixty Special
- Mark of Success: Lincoln's Continental Mark Series
- Out in Front: The Front-Wheel-Drive Oldsmobile Toronado, Part 1
- Out in Front: The Front-Wheel-Drive Oldsmobile Toronado, Part 2
- Pillarless Pioneer: The 1949 Buick Roadmaster Riviera
- Raising the Roof: Ford's Skyliner 'Retrac'
- Razor Sharp, Razor Clean: The 1963-1965 Buick Riviera
- Requiem for Misterl: The 1959 Cadillac and the Winter of Harley Earl
- Soaring High: The Lexus SC and Toyota Soarer Coupes
- Stayin' Alive: The Chevrolet Monte Carlo
- The Kalifornia Kustom Comes to Detroit: The 1953-54 Buick Skylark
- The People's Packard: The Packard One-Twenty and How NOT to Build a Brand
- The Perilous Success of the 1976 Cadillac Seville
- This Time, It's Personal: The 1967-1970 Cadillac Eldorado
- Upwardly Mobile: The Lexus LS400 and the Birth of the Japanese Luxury Brands
- What's a Matador? AMC's Midsize Classic, Rebel, and Matador Coupe
- Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz: The Mercedes W111/112 Coupes
- Sports Cars and Muscle Cars
- A Big Healey History: The Austin-Healey 100, 100-6, and 3000
- A Tale of the Shark and the Rat: The Chevrolet Corvette Stingray (C3)
- A Triumph Preview
- A Wing and a Prayer: The Dodge Charger and Charger Daytona
- All Fall Down: The Cadillac Allante, The Buick Reatta, and How GM Lost Its Styling Mojo
- All the Way from A to B: The History of the MGB, Part One
- All the Way from A to B: The History of the MGB, Part Two
- And Romeo Had Juliette: The Alfa Romeo Giulietta
- Beep Beep: Plymouth's Irreverent Road Runner
- Beetle in a Cocktail Dress: The Volkswagen Karmann Ghia
- Before the Continental: Edsel Ford's Speedsters
- Better Slow that Mustang Down: The Story of the Original Ford Mustang
- Bitchin' Camaro: The First-Generation Chevrolet Camaro Z/28
- Black Is Beautiful: The 1968-1970 American Motors AMX
- Born on a Boat: Donald Healey and the Story of the Nash-Healey
- Bucking the System: The 1963-1967 Corvette Sting Ray (C2)
- Cafe Society Racer: The BMW M3
- Cammer: Pontiac's OHC Six
- Cat Class, Cat Style: The Mercury Cougar
- Cheap and Cheerful: The European Ford Capri
- Darth Buick: The Buick Regal Grand National and GNX
- Days of Future Past: The Porsche 928
- Disco Inferno: The Infamous Pontiac Trans Am Turbo
- Dodging the Issue: The Original Dodge Charger
- Dressed to Kill: The 1954 Kaiser Darrin
- Fast Forerunner: The Jensen Interceptor and FF
- Fish Story: The Plymouth Barracuda (Part One)
- Fish Story: The Plymouth Barracuda (Part Two)
- From Bavaria with Love: The BMW E9 Coupes
- From the Back to the Middle: The Crown Conversion Corvair
- George Hurst and the "Hairy Olds"
- Getting the Lead Out: The 2nd-Generation Chevy Camaro and the Rise and Fall of Leaded Gasoline
- Going out with a Bang: The 1969 AMC SC/Rambler
- Grace in Motion: The Jaguar XK120
- In the Middle of the Road: The Oldsmobile Cutlass and 4-4-2
- Kill Your Darlings: The Birth and Death of the Pontiac Fiero
- Little Bird: The 1955-1957 Ford Thunderbird
- Little Sister: The Mercedes 190SL
- Mean Machine: The 1970-1974 Dodge Challenger
- Ms. Cristina Drives a 944: The Porsche 924, 944, and 968, Part 1
- Ms. Cristina Drives a 944: The Porsche 924, 944, and 968, Part 2
- My Other Car Is a Porsche: Ferdinand Porsche and the Birth of the Porsche 356
- Outfoxing the Fox: The Fox Mustangs and the Turbocharged Mustang SVO
- Plan C: The Short-Lived Six-Cylinder MGC and MGC GT
- RX-Rated: Mazda's Early Rotary Cars, Part 1
- RX-Rated: Mazda's Early Rotary Cars, Part 2
- Sainted Swede: The Volvo P1800 and 1800ES
- She Likes Whips and Chains: The Pleasures and Pains of the Citroën SM
- Son of Stingray: The 1969-1973 Opel GT
- Status-Seeking Missiles: BMW's E24 6-Series Coupes
- Stuck Here in the Middle: The Mid-Engine Porsche 914
- The Forgotten Ferrari: The Dino 308GT4
- The Harder They Fall: The Saga of the DeLorean Motor Company
- The Nine Lives of the Jaguar XJ-S
- The Once and Future Coupe: The Loewy Coupes and the Studebaker Hawk
- The Sporting American: The History of the AMC Javelin
- The Summer of John Z: John DeLorean and the Pontiac Firebird
- The Unlikely Studebaker: Raymond Loewy and the Birth (and Rebirth) of the Avanti
- Three Deuces and a Four-Speed: The Rise and Fall of the Pontiac GTO
- Top Cat: The E-Type Jaguar
- Way of the Wedge: The Triumph TR7 and TR8
- Wouldn't You Really Rather: A Brief History of the Buick Gran Sport
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