![Today is my birthday, so to celebrate this momentous occasion with an appropriately outstanding post, let’s ogle at a treasure cove full of mostly ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s rusty American […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_20220323_095228-copy.jpg "Storage Lot Classics / Multiple CCs: A Flotilla Of Dead Land Yachts (And A Couple Of Hondas)")
![Last week, we had a look at the unfortunate situation Mazda put themselves in by fielding the overly portly Cronos (marketed as the Mazda 626 abroad) to take over from […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_20220220_143240-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1993 ɛ̃fini MS-9 – Mazda’s Catastrophic Clustermarque Cacophony")
![The world can be divided into two camps: those who Škoda and those who Škodon’t. There were many markets where this long-lived Czech marque has no presence, or has been […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_20220323_122145-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 2002 Škoda Octavia RS – No Joke")
![If there is a Nissan that went Stateside and found a home there, it’s the Maxima. The nameplate was born back in the Datsun days specifically for the North American […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_20220328_084715-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1987 Nissan Maxima (PU11) V6 Turbo Hardtop Legran – The One That Missed The Boat")
![In the life of any CC hunter, one should expect the unexpected. Finding one Lotus Esprit in downtown Tokyo was somewhat strange, but not exactly unexpected. They really like their […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_20220327_154214-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1988 Lotus Esprit X180 – Here Comes Trouble")
![There were many problems with Mazda’s product and branding strategy in the ‘90s — so many, in fact, that the company’s future was in jeopardy. Most of it had to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_20220104_090417-copy.jpg "CC Twofer: 1996 Mazda Capella (CG) Sedan & (GV) Wagon – Fear And Loathing In Hiroshima")
![This is a problem. There aren’t too many French CCs to be found in Tokyo, so anything over the age of 20 bearing a double chevron badge should be fair […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_20220320_164426-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 199X Citroën XM – Something Old, Something New")
![Chaser Avante Lordly? The mind boggles. At Toyota, a group of serious guys (in ‘80s Japan, it would almost certainly have been only guys) wearing three-piece suits and considered valued […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_20211023_150508-copy.jpg "CC Capsule: 1990 Toyota Chaser (X80) Avante Lordly Twin Cam 24 – Praise The Lordly")
![The original Ghostbusters was the first movie I saw at a real cinema, so it kind of made an impression on me. And thanks to countless subsequent viewings (in the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_20220226_102302-copy.jpg "Storage Lot Classic: 1962 Cadillac Futura Limousine By Miller-Meteor – Only 4800")
![Dearly beloved, let us spare a moment, a thought and a (mental) funerary wreath for the eighth and final generation of Laurels, the C35. It was a brave and beautiful […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_20220227_112737-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 2001 Nissan Laurel (C35) Medalist – Wreath Havoc")
![Rolls versus Bentley? Shouldn’t that be Rolls and Bentley? I still have trouble accepting these two as rival companies – or rather, branches of rival companies. I don’t think there […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_20220124_165131-copy.jpg "CC Capsule/Twofer: 2012-18 Bentley Continental GT & 2013-22 Rolls-Royce Wraith – Two Burly British Bulldogs, Sniffing Each Other’s Exhaust")
![Back in the early ‘60s, Ferruccio Lamborghini famously told Enzo Ferrari that his cars could be better, prompting Ferrari to tell his client to go back to his tractor factory. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_20220320_160311-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1991 Honda NSX – Pulling A Ferruccio")
![In the open-air CC treasure trove that is Tokyo, one can be overcome by an embarrassment of über-riches. Over the past couple of months, after two years of mostly seeing […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_20220313_170852-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1970 Mercedes-Benz (W109) 300 SEL 3.5 – F In Math, But A+ For Everything Else")
![Do not adjust your set. This is not an April Fools prank, it’s not some sort of Photoshoppery, nor did someone microdose your coffee this morning. This is a real […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_20220226_100723-copy.jpg "CC Capsule/Future Classic/CC For Sale: 2019 Mitsuoka Rock Star S Special Package – Mitsuoka’s New Groove: Motown Classics")
![This Renault could illustrate the dictionary definition of a hot hatch. The official story, as parroted by all, is that it all started in the late ‘70s with Volkswagen and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_20220320_153120-copy.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1990 Renault 5 (Supercinq) GT Turbo – Plenty Of Baguette Up’n’Go")
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