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![(first posted at CC on 11/7/2016. It’s an iffy DS pick, reflecting quite a bit of personal bias) You want to know one of the reasons why the Honda Accord […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CC-44-31-800crop-vert.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1976 Chevrolet Malibu Classic – GM’s Deadly Sin #7 – Gluttony")
![(first posted 11/7/2016) The EPA has issued its “Light-Duty Automotive Technology, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, and Fuel Economy Trends: 1975 Through 2016”report). (The updated report through 2020 is here). It’s […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/EPA-0-to-60.jpg "The EPA’s Charts On Efficiency, Performance, Weight and Other Metrics, 1975-2016 — Peak Malaise Was Obviously In 1982")
![(first posted 11/7/2016) In 1973, I was a performer in an experimental theater company, and we got a gig to play in NYC, for six weeks, in the Village. Since […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/New-York-City-in-the-1970s-tunnel-30.jpg "Vintage Snapshots: The Cars Of New York City In The 1970s")
![The new W114/115 Mercedes may not have looked all that different stylistically from the larger S-Class cars (250/280/300S/SE/SEL), but it was the biggest change under the skin in a long […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/220-250-1a.jpeg "Vintage R&T Road Test: 1968 Mercedes 220 & 250 (W115/114) – A New Generation")
![(first posted 9/20/2012) GM had some memorable screw-ups in the ’70s, but they were merely warm-ups to GM’s main act of self-mutilation of the ’80s, during which it orchestrated its […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/CC-123-128-1200.jpg "Classic Curbside Classic: 1989 Camaro RS – GM’s Deadly Sin #6 – 46 Trips To The Dealer In The First Year")
![I’ve seen a few of these type of renderings from the UK in this era, with frumpy cars that look to be relics from the 1930s posed in front of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/51778392558_de65ec6b21_k.jpg "Vintage Post Card: 1952 MG YB With de Havilland Comet – Why Make Your Out Of Date Car Look Even Older?")
![Seeing this gen1 Lumina posted by canadiancatgreen at the Cohort made me realize that I haven’t seen one in quite a while. And there were so many around; especially white […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/52468200982_285d281116_k.jpg "Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: Chevrolet Lumina – Where Did They All Go?")
![I love old truck photos, but they’re always better when there’s a driver in the shot too. This guy has quite a pose too; somewhere between proud and bored. Proud […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/52375256177_a8b0149d9d_o.jpg "Vintage Truck: Hay Hauling International")
![(first posted 9/12/2012) Writing this Curbside Classic took the same trajectory as the Blazer. It started as a legitimate nod of acknowledgment to the S-10 Blazer as the trailblazer of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/CC-42-097-800.jpg "Classic Curbside Classic: 1985 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer – GM’s Deadly Sin #5: Sloth")
![I love stories like the one about how this very advanced truck called the Paymaster came to be. No, it wasn’t from the advanced engineering department at one of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/paymaster-2.jpg "Vintage Truck: Paymaster – The Tesla Semi Of Its Time")
![(This was written in October 2009 at the time of Saturn’s death. Revised and updated in 2015 & 2016) Friends, we are gathered together to pay our last respects to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/CC-42-112-8001.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1993 Saturn SL – GM’s Deadly Sin #4 – The Eulogy")
![Maus Gatsonides was a Dutch rally driver and inventor. In 1948, he cobbled up this, initially called the Gatford, since it was Fprd-based. But Ford objected, either because it sounded […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/51782464435_f7dc492e76_k.jpg "Vintage PR Shot: 1948 Gatso Aero-Coupe (Netherlands) – Got Aero Conditioning?")
![(first posted 6/27/2011) Bernie Madoff’s first bogus trade. Richard Nixon’s first fib. Charlie Parker’s first hit of heroin. What do they have in common with this perfectly harmless-looking Pontiac Ventura […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ghgh.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1971 Pontiac Ventura II Sprint- GM’s Deadly Sin #3 – Badge Engineering Begins In Earnest")
![Ideally, the new 144/142 would have come with the larger two liter engine from the get-go, given that it was a bigger and heavier car than the 122/Amazon, in which […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/142-1-top.jpeg "Vintage R&T Road Test: 1969 Volvo 142S 2 Liter – “A Small Change Makes A Big Difference”")
![For too many years I’ve cringed when I see or hear the expression BOF (Body On Frame) as applied to American cars with perimeter frames, meaning pretty much all of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Frames-1.jpg "Tech History: The Perimeter Frame – Body-And-Frame, Not Body-On-Frame")
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