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- Senior Editor and also the owner of Ate Up With Motor.
![What was the first gasoline-powered automobile with fully automatic transmission? It wasn’t built by GM (which hadn’t even been incorporated yet!), but by the Sturtevant Mill Company in Boston, about […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1907-Sturtevant-Automatic-Touring-Car-brochure-litho-front-3q.webp "The World’s First Automatic Transmission – The 1904-1907 Sturtevant Automatic Automobile")
![For 1970, GM senior management finally rescinded the corporate policy that limited intermediate-size cars to engines no bigger than 400 cubic inches. Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac wasted no time […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1970-Pontiac-GTO-455-RA-Pepper-Green-Mecum-Auctions-S214-front-3q-left.webp "Vintage Car Life Road Test: 1970 Pontiac GTO 455 And 400 Ram Air – There IS A Substitute For Cubic Inches")
![One of the biggest factors in how well cars sell in a given market is how many dealer franchises the automaker has at a given time. Here’s a breakdown […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Nowlings-Oldsmobile-Downey-Calif-1967.webp "How Many Dealers Did U.S. Automakers Have In The Late 1960s?")
![Recently, I said some not-nice things about the full-size Cadillacs of the ’70s, which I’ve never liked, and which I’ve previously likened to a fire sale on Cadillac prestige. After […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1974-Cadillac-Fleetwood-Brougham-dElegance-Cotillion-White-Mecum-Auctions-J196-front-3q-left.webp "1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham D’Elegance And Talisman – Go Brougham Or Go Home")
![Auto enthusiasts talk a lot (and complain a lot) about badge engineering, where automakers slap a few bits of unique trim on a car or truck and try to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1967-Mercury-Cougar-XR-7-Lime-Frost-Metallic-Bring-a-Trailer-2-front-3q-left.webp "1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 – How Different Is Different Enough?")
![Engineer Earle MacPherson devised an early version of his now-famous strut suspension for an abortive GM small car project, the Chevrolet Cadet, but it wasn’t until he went to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1951-Ford-Consul-blue-Car-and-Classic-front-3q-right.webp "The Origins Of The MacPherson Strut Suspension")
![This little wagon is 75 years old today: Nash introduced its compact Rambler Custom Station Wagon on June 23, 1950, advertising the well-equipped, upscale subcompact wagon as “practical as […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1950-Nash-Rambler-Custom-Station-Wagon-Champagne-Ivory-Volo-Auto-Sales-front-3q-left.webp "1950 Nash Rambler Custom Station Wagon – The Original Luxury Compact Turns 75")
![Although Hydra-Matic Drive was developed and manufactured by General Motors, GM’s Detroit Transmission Division also sold Hydra-Matic transmissions to outside automakers, including most of the U.S. independents and even […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1940-Oldsmobile-Series-90-blue-Barrett-Jackson-front-3q-left.webp "Early Hydra-Matic Users: Many Non-GM Automakers Bought This Pioneering Automatic Transmission")
![Between 1945 and 1947, Chevrolet developed an advanced postwar compact called the Cadet. Originally intended as a “light car” that would sell for less than $1,000, it quickly evolved into […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/SIA20-The-Truth-About-Chevys-Cashiered-Cadet-Jan.-Feb.-1974_16a.webp "1947 Chevrolet Cadet: The Revolutionary Postwar “Light Car” Chevrolet Never Actually Built")
![Between 1965 and 1969, General Motors corporate policy limited most smaller GM cars to engines no bigger than 400 cubic inches, with no more than 1 rated horsepower per […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1968-Hurst-Olds-AC-Mecum-Auctions-F233.1-front-3q-left.webp "Vintage M/T Review: 1968 Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds – Olds Breaks The Rules, Hurst Runs Interference")
![As much as cars are often sold on sex appeal or snob value, there can also be a very healthy market for cute, and only a small handful of production […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1950-Nash-Rambler-Custom-Convertible-Landau-Strato-Blue-Mecum-Auctions-T225-front-3q-left.webp "1950 Nash Rambler Convertible Landau: Adorable, Thrifty, But Not Cheap")
![When it comes to Cadillac, the perennial question is, “When did the brand first lose its way?” Even hardcore Cadillac fans usually agree that at some point, the division sacrificed […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1968-Cadillac-Coupe-de-Ville-Regal-Silver-Orlando-Classic-Cars-side-left.webp "1968 And 1969 Cadillac Coupe De Ville: Were These The Tipping Point For Cadillac Quality And Style?")
![In Jeff Nelson’s post on early U.S. compacts, he explained that one of the reasons most of these cars fell flat commercially was that they were little if any […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1954-Willys-Aero-Lark-DX-2SD-blue-Mecum-Auctions-S51-front-3q-right.webp "How Much Did The Early 1950s Compacts Cost, And How Did Their Prices Compare to Chevrolet And Ford?")
![The 1966–1969 Jeep Super Wagoneer and 1968–1971 Wagoneer Custom Special were the earliest regular-production examples of a now-common breed: posh upscale SUVs aimed squarely at monied buyers, with lofty […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1968-Jeep-Super-Wagoneer-Bring-a-Trailer-3-front-3q-left.webp "1966–1971 Jeep Super Wagoneer and Wagoneer Custom Special: These Luxury SUVs Were Way Ahead Of Their Time, So Why Didn’t They Sell?")
![Paul has called the 1975 Volkswagen Golf/Rabbit the most influential global compact car of the past 50 years. One of the reasons the original Golf and Rabbit made such a big […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1975-Volkswagen-Rabbit-Rallye-Green-2040-cars-front-3q-right-crop.webp "CC Tech: How The Nimble 1975 Volkswagen Golf, Rabbit, And Scirocco Raised The Standards Of FWD Chassis Design")
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