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2012 to 2018 Ford Focus Electric: Botched Opportunity
2018 Ford Focus Electric I used to imagine that I might own an electric car to make my 3 mile commute to work and back. In theory, I’d only drive 30 miles or so a week while I used a petro car for...
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1996 – 1998 Honda Tourmaster: That Other First Pickup
1996 Honda Tourmaster LXS Back when Honda was getting its feet wet into the truck/SUV market, it leaned on Isuzu. Isuzu’s reputation for building cheap and dependable small vehicles helped bolster...
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Car In the Wild: Nissan Hardbody
1990s era Nissan Hardbody Tucked away under a railroad bridge we find a working example of Nissan’s Hardbody pickup. This has to be my favorite small pickup from the ’80s. In it’s day the Hardbody was...
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2025 Audi A4: In With a Roar Out With a Whimper
2025 Audi A4 I recently went to Audi’s website looking for the A4. To my surprise, it had been discontinued in 2025 due to some restructuring with the A5. The A4 had been Audi’s popular entry into the...
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2024 – 2025 Mitsuoka M55: Finding Inspiration Where You Can
Never heard of Mitsuoka? The Japanese company builds special niche cars based on existing production vehicles. Often the company’s products can be anywhere from strange looking to oddly attractive....
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1989 -1990 ASC/McLaren Pontiac Gran Prix Turbo: A Boost Before Takeoff
McLaren today is as much associated with racing as it is high-performance exotics. Well before the first publicly available road car arrived in the early ‘90s, the company lent its engineering...
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Car In the Wild: Mercedes Benz AMG E63 S Wagon
This new series will focus on cars I see out on the street in my everyday walking commute to work. Yeah, for someone who loves cars and has two of them, I like walking to work because I live so close...
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1958-1963 DAF 600: Constantly Variable Charm
1959 DAF 600 After the Second World War, European industry was slowly rebuilding with its auto industry one of the first beneficiaries of the Marshall Plan. As a result, car builders were looking for...
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1990 – 1996 Daewoo Espero: The First Korean World Car?
1990 Daewoo Espero We often think of world cars as one car sold in multiple places. That applies to the Daewoo Espero, but not like you might expect. Like most world cars, the Espero’s makers had...
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2021 – 2025 Audi RS6 Avant: A Responsible Supercar?
2024 Audi RS6 Avant Performance The station wagon is healthier than many people think—if you’re willing to look beyond the American market. Wagons largely disappeared from the U.S. after the Big Three...
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2018 – 2026 Toyota Corolla Touring Sport: World Wagon Supreme?
2024 Toyota Corolla Touring Sport The Toyota Corolla didn’t become the world’s best-selling car by being the fastest or most exciting. Instead, it succeeded by being an affordable, dependable...
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2009 – 2014 Nissan Cube: The Original Square Pegg
2009 Nissan Cube SL Not too long ago, the automotive landscape was filled with fascinating variety. Alongside standard sedans, SUVs, and trucks, a wave of unusual shapes emerged—one of which would...
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1973 – 1975 Austin Marina: Handsome Yet Doomed
1974 Austin Marina 1800 Sedan and Coupe While North Americans may not have known of British Leyland Motors (BL), they knew of the conglomerate’s premium brands like Jaguar, Land Rover and MG. Those...
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2018 – 2026 Volkswagen Jetta: The Silent Compact Survivor
2020 Volkswagen GLI 1979 VW Jetta The Volkswagen Jetta has come a long way since its debut in 1979 as a Golf with a boxy trunk grafted on. Over time, it has evolved into an attractive, if not...
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2016 Ford Focus SE – Refocusing One Last Time
My 2016 Ford Focus SE with Sport Package I finally got around to replacing my beloved Ford Focus. That car, a 2012 was a loaded hard to find Titanium with a manual transmission. It had those cool 18’...
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Lines of Distinction: Lexus 1992
1992 Lexus brochure Toyota’s luxurious Cressida had long since left the U.S. market, leaving the company’s project F1 initiative to become the springboard for a new luxury brand. From the moment...
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1965 to 1967 Buick Wildcat Gran Sport: Understated Power and Grace
1967 Buick Gran Sport 400 Buicks have had an odd on again off again relationship with performance throughout its long history. Today its lineup resembles windswept baskets with wheels, but there was a...
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1974-1976 Pontiac Trans-Am: Keeping the Faith
1976 Pontiac Trans-Am When people reminisce about the so called bad years of the American auto industry, they usually focus on the 1970s. The middle of the decade was the most painful for muscle car...
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1979-1984 Opel Kadett/Vauxhall Astra: Two of a Near Perfect Pair
1984 Vauxhall Astra GTE My passion for small cars started early with Pintos, Chevettes and Escorts. As a child I knew that those American offerings were just a part of a much broader spectrum of...
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2022-2026 Ford Maverick: No Shame In the Name
2022 Ford Maverick XL Its been more than four years since the Ford Maverick shook up the truck world. It might have been surprising if not a bit disappointing that Ford’s first truly small truck since...
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