Another surviving Toyota, another chance to look into the brand’s early ascendance years. An early chapter built on the backs of straightforward sturdy trucks and pickups. The Stout played its […]
Once more we take a deep look into the mirror universe of South American-built European brands. Known forms take on skewed proportions, familiar motifs find new ways of coming into […]
Can’t recall when I had this conversation with my wife; some anecdote of her father’s youth tending to farming chores in the countryhouse. This brought up my dad’s childhood, born […]
It was the mid ’90s and our immediate Supervisor had just bought a 3000GT (Dodge Stealth, GTO in Japan), Mitsubishi’s excess-for-its-own-sake sports model. At the office my pals looked at […]
It took a bit over an hour of driving to reach the small hut in the countryside. I followed Dad and Mom as they entered the poor quarters, stepping through […]
What kind of Toronado is this? The Torero? The Matador? Such animal stares… so sultry, so enigmatic, so non PC. This is not your father’s Oldsmobile, not even your grandfather’s; […]
Mundane. How else to describe this little lump of Eastern European metal? Had I not been stuck in traffic I would have never sat passively, aimlessly looking around, eventually noticing […]
The quintessential ’70s Chevrolet gets the Car And Driver treatment with a glowing review and not many snarky comments, with those appearing mostly directed elsewhere. Meanwhile, DeLorean gets kudos and […]
“Añejo” the Spanish word for ‘the old one‘ or ‘the aged one,’ most generally used to denote fine aged liquors. Is this nicely preserved Datsun 411 such a case? Has […]
Some time ago CC reader Nate pointed me to a Central American tradition of sorts, that of abandoned vehicles literally buried under piles of garbage. This, after a post of […]
The once a decade Cadillac ‘rebirth.’ By 1992, that was becoming a tradition of sorts. The Seville’s 4th generation made a bit of noise in automotive circles at launch, as […]
By the mid 60’s filming technology had ‘freed up’ the camera and movie goers were to experience an endless supply of ‘behind the wheel’ high speed pursuits with awesome chair-grabbing […]
How much love do these little haulers get? From the looks of this one, quite some. A good thing, as there’s nothing like them nowadays; most makes have moved away […]
By the mid 70’s Japanese cartoons had paved their way into Latin America, with media-content-creation being another chapter in the notorious rise of the Asian nation. However, those Japanese shows […]