![I’m getting to that age when for some reason or another, the mind starts to focus on the negative versus the positive – I’d call it “curmudgeon-itis.” I’ve tried to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1598163531164-1-e1741140406923.jpg "QOTD: What Are Some of the New Auto Technologies That You Love and Some That You Hate?")
![Recently the Editors of Vintage Motor Coach Magazine asked if I would author an article on Prevost’s urban transit coaches – specifically the “Citadin”, which we’ve covered here at […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1962-prevost-model-49-s-transit-bus-1-e1738468290145.webp "Bus Stop Classics: Prevost Travel-Aire and S-Series Urban Transit Buses – A Couple of Rare Birds")
![(first posted 1/26/2019) I saw this spiffy Suzuki Twin parked at a Tokyo supermarket last weekend. I hadn’t paid much attention to these before, but after seeing […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/IMGP2804-1-e1548158379289.jpg "CC Outtake: 2003-05 Suzuki Twin – Would Make a Great Clown Car")
![(first posted 1/19/2019) Think Alfa Romeo and your mind’s eye will most likely conjure up a beautiful red roadster or lithesome coupe, both powered by a high-revving […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/800.jpg "Bus Stop Classics: 1950’s Alfa Romeo Buses – Mass Transportation Con Verve")
![It seems all vehicle manufacturers were (and are) guilty of it – “badge engineering” or doing as little as possible to distinguish one brand or model of car from another, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1975-dodge-charger-daytona-e1735813183303.jpg "QOTD: What’s The Worst Case of “Badge Engineering?”")
![The recent holiday season has brought two major, perhaps landmark, automotive news stories from Japan. The first is obviously the potential merger of Honda and Nissan. Lots of commentary and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/images-4.jpg "CC Commentary: Two Key Automotive Industry Developments from Japan")
![(first posted 12/29/2018) Here’s a bus that caught my eye when doing a little research on the Mercedes O321H – this is a 1954 Krauss-Maffei KML (Krauss-Maffei […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1954-krauss-maffei-kml-110-body-also.jpg "Bus Stop Classics: 1954 Krauss-Maffei KML 110 Coach – Wind Cheater")
![It’s a real conundrum, isn’t it? Shell out a few more bucks and get that oil changed, brake fluid flushed, or HVAC filter replaced? In my over fifty years of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/images-3.jpg "CC QOTD: Do You Follow Your Car Manufacturers Factory Maintenance Schedule or Do You Go Your Own Way?")
![(first posted 12/15/2018) A few weeks back we looked at the Dyson Land Liner coach, which was essentially a trailer bus with the prime mover tractor replaced by a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SantaFeTrailwaysplywoodbus_01_resized-e1543137624245.jpg "Bus Stop Classics: 1942 Santa Fe Trailways “Victory Liner” Coach – Another Innovation During War That Didn’t Make the Transition to Peacetime"){kind=small}
![With the exception of Tatra87 and myself, there’s probably not a lot of other Curbsiders that have a yen (no pun intended) for a tutorial on Japanese license plates. But […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/New-Local-Patterns-Japanese-License-Plate-1_600x-e1733452655879.webp "Curbside Commentary: Everything You Wanted to Know About Japanese License Plates – Or More Useless Trivia")
![Japan used to have quite a few trolleybus lines, though most have been replaced – first by diesel, and now by Battery Electric and Fuel Cell models. Currently there is […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/may-28-2013-toyama-japan-260nw-1219266205.webp "Bus Stop Classics: Tateyama Trolleybus – Saying Goodbye to the Last Trolleybus Line in Japan")
![A sign of the times…a forward thinking European city doing its best to be ecologically and environmentally friendly implements an innovative car-sharing service utilizing pure Battery Electric vehicles to reduce […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/xgB1oDiPwQN0JSAgM1WNqqcHDAUxhuE5aU0mRCk8-e1732281529949.jpg "Curbside Outtake: 1974 – 1986 Witkar – Have Pod, Will Travel")
![(first posted 11/24/2018) Here’s a very unique and technically interesting bus from our friends down under – it’s a Dyson Landliner and it plied the roads in Australia […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dyson-Landliner.jpg "Bus Stop Classics: 1945 Dyson Landliner Bus – An Innovative Experiment from Down Under")
![A few weeks back we reviewed the Necochea Aerobus, an early attempt at streamlining from Argentina. Today let’s look at another Argentinian bus and one from Brazil that were both […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/691f083e08d6fb44ac21833670b1266b-e1731316717947.jpg "Bus Stop Classics: 1966 CAIO Gaivota and 2001 Rio de La Plata Maxibus – South American Streamliners")
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