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2012-2014 Toyota Prius C: A Missed Opportunity?
2012 Toyota Prius C The Prius has grown into a family of cars with the original 5 door fastback remaining the star of the line up. Potentially, the most interesting Prius is the smallest one. The...
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2010-2014 Buick Lacrosse: Heritage Holdout
2010 Buick LaCrosse For anyone missing the good old days of the American automobile, they can take a little comfort in knowing that the “American car” type is making something of a comeback. The new...
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2012-2014 SRT Viper: Shedding It’s Skin Once Again
2013 SRT Viper Miracles seem like everyday occurrences at Chrysler, although like a dreams, they don’t last long. In the past a great car would have come around and saved the company from its own...
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1965 – 1967 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport: For Mature Audiences Only
1967 Chevrolet Impala SS 427 It always amazed me how different American cars appeared from year to year in the 1960s. Even when they were continuing on with the same basic body, they looked almost like...
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1992-1994 Jaguar XJ220: The Super Car with Less Than Super Timing
1991 Jaguar XJ-220 The late 1980s was a heated time for a new crop of modern supercars. Nearly everyone who was worth their space in Beverly Hills auto parlors were represented. Lamborghini, Ferrari,...
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2008 – 2012 Tesla Roadster: Adding Real Spark To a Segment
2012 Tesla Roadster For most people the electric car was the stuff of nerds. That was before the Tesla Roadster made it’s public debut in 2007. Rumors of an American electric car company had been...
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1971 – 1975 Lancia 2000 Coupe: The Last of the Thoroughbreds
1972 Lancia 2000 Coupe Coupes are an exciting segment in the automotive market, but lately their numbers have been dwindling. Some of the most exciting GT cars to come out of Europe were less than...
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1977 – 1983 Maserati Kyalami: The African Queen?
1980 Maserati Kyalami 4.9 Big sporting coupes have been a segment that European automakers have been consistent with ever since the ’70s. Of course big by their definition is merely mid-sized by ours,...
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1964 – 1968 Ferrari 275 GTB: The Subtle Transition to Modern
1964 Ferrari 275 GTB The Ferrari 250 Berlinetta or Lusso was one of Ferrari’s most beautiful GT cars. It classic lines represents the height of Ferrari’s old world designs. The “Lussos” were a tough...
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Volkswagen Santana: Quantum Physics in China
1988 VW Santana The Chinese auto market is an odd thing. There Buick is like Lexus and VW was like Toyota. Was because VW has lost its sales dominance to Buick of all companies. One of the reasons VW...
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2015 Ford Falcon – An Aussie Bird’s Final Flight
2015 Ford Falcon XR8 The end of the line for any performance car is always sad news. Even sadder is the demise of an entire division. In America fans of Pontiac Oldsmobile, Saturn and Mercury were...
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2014 – 2015 Audi A3: The Fruit at the Bottom?
2015 Audi A3 Sedan The compact luxury segment is really heating up in the United States. After years of seeing small cars as penalty boxes, American’s are slowly changing their perceptions about small...
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2014 Dodge Dart: Another Small Car Target Missed?
2014 Dodge Dart SXT and GT In my lifetime I remember many of the small cars from Chrysler as being initially interesting but ultimately forgettable with poor build quality and cheesy ergonomics. It’s...
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1975-1983 Volkswagen Rabbit : The Start of It All
1976 Volkswagen Rabbit GTi Mk1 (Golf) Small cars are now a major fact of life in the American market. There was once a time when they were the occasional novelty with so so reliability. The VW Beetle...
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1974 – 1976 Cadillac Eldorado: Big Oil’s Big Car
1976 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible 1974 -1976 Cadillac Eldorado If there was one car that exemplified glutenous American excess, it might be the Cadillac Eldorado, the mid ’70s models to be exact. The...
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Buying Was Easy, Choosing Was Not
2012 Ford Focus Ti The time had finally come to make the big purchase. It had taken long enough. Back in 2002, I was looking for a replacement for my 94 BMW 325 coupe. It was simple selection process...
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1970 – 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme SX: Luxurious Muscle
1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme SX What floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee, yet does all of this in total personal luxury? If you answered a Monte Carlo, you’d be close. The Oldsmobile...
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2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat: Is Bigger Always Better?
2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat It seems like more and more lately that Dodge is becoming the new Pontiac. That is as a brand it plays on the heritage of performance established during the muscle car...
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1977 Chevrolet Monza Mirage: A Win Win Situation?
1977 Chevrolet Monza Mirage The Term ‘Race on Sunday Sell on Monday’ was already a tired cliché when Chevrolet rolled out it’s new H Body cars late in 1974. The most attractive of these, The Chevrolet...
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1983-1987 Buick Regal T-Type: Spooling Up to Greatness
1983 Buick Regal T-Type As Buicks go, the turbo cars like the Gran National and GNX get all the attention and rightfully so. They established Buick as a luxury performance brand on par with BMW and...
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