![(Updated 11/3/2025) Welcome to part two (see part one here) – let’s skip the preliminaries and get right to the meat of the subject, starting with the ‘70s. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/1975-Citroen-DS-last-car.jpg "Last Of Their Kind: Last Cars Off The Line, Part 2: 1970-present")
![(Updated 11/1/2025) Extremes always fascinate. Take, for instance, the extremes of existence that are birth and death – the very first and the very last. With cars, the “first” […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/traction-avant-dernière-1957-usine3.jpg "The Last Of Their Kind: Last Cars Off The Line, Part 1: 1940-1970")
![It’s red, it’s rare, it’s Italian and it’s at least 30 years old. And yet, there’s not much one can say about the Shamal that is unequivocally positive. It’s always […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_20220731_152656_edited-115x115.jpg "1994 Maserati Shamal: Italian Twin-Turbo V8 Coupe Is More Trick Than Treat")
![As a marque, Autobianchi was never allowed to flourish. The closest they got to prime time was as Fiat’s experimental branch, back in the ‘60s, with the Primula. In 1969 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_20231030_135046_edited-115x115.jpg "1991 Autobianchi Y10 1300 GT: The Dark Side Of The Farce")
![The usual trope is that Italian cars are all styled to be classically delicate and beautiful, like they’re the automotive expression of the Sistine Chapel. But the Italians do brutalist […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_20241215_102455_edited-115x115.jpg "1993 Alfa Romeo RZ: Radically Zagatopped")
![Or should that be “Move Things In Fast Breaks?” This XM is the ultimate big hydro Citroën one-two punch, coupling serious highway cruising ability and impressive cargo capacity. It comes […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG20250817161506_edited-115x115.jpg "1996 Citroën XM V6 Break: Move Fast, Break Things")
![(Updated 10/23/2025) It was high noon in the sweltering humidity of the city of Tokyo (or was it Bangkok?). I trundled along, whistling a merry tune (sweating so […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/title_pic_corona2fer2.jpg "1979 Toyota Corona T130 Sedan & Liftback – Forty Years Young, Forty Years Old")
![GTI, ah what a magical trio of letters. You could put anything in front and it would sound faster. Let’s try that, in fact: Fiat Panda GTI. Morris Ital GTI. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_20221018_170443_edited-115x115.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1993 Peugeot 309 GTI – Neutered Lion")
![(Updated 10/20/2025) Sometimes, finding CCs is all about going the extra mile. As daytime temperatures started falling in my area, I’ve had more occasions to go for long […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_20191011_102808-copy.jpg "Junkyard Classic: 1966 Isuzu Bellel – Turkey On A Stick")
![When I was in Europe last summer, I had a mental list of ‘80s and ‘90s cars that I wanted to find for CC. Most were utterly unremarkable saloons that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG20250827102645_edited-115x115.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1997 Renault Laguna – Boring Sells")
![(Updated 10/19/2025) I’m not sure how I ended up in this particular rabbit hole, but the other day I started browsing the web for vintage photos of Alfa heavies. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/430-a-autobus-cop-depliant.jpg "Bus Stop Classics: More Vintage Alfa Romeo Bus Pics – Pure Eye Candy")
![You can’t say they didn’t try. And then tried again, and again. They tried every which way, with all manner of engines, with a hardtop or a soft one, two […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_20210104_163200_edited-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1993 BMW 850i – BMW’s Almost Successful Übercar")
![(Updated 10/15/2025) I was kind of housebound this weekend, which enabled me to do a spot of writing. As luck would have it, I just caught an […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_20191011_113932-copy.jpg "1997 Toyota Mark II (X70) Van – The Emperor’s Old Clothes")
![Look Dad! A Golf on stilts! Don’t mock the afflicted, kid. It’s not that poor VW’s fault if it got jacked up like that. Probably some height-obsessed owner’s idea of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/DSC_3369_edited-115x115.jpg "1991 Volkswagen Golf Country – Don’t Point And Steyr")
![(Updated 10/14/2025) Wandering around Tokyo can lead to pleasant surprises. A hyper-modern city populated by folks who value conformity makes for some colorful contrasts. The conservative culture […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_20190909_111959-copy.jpg "1958 Datsun 1000 (210) – Sublime Sexagenarian")
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