![The trick, when looking for a suitable CC, is to be patient and never give up hope. For over six years, ever since moving to Tokyo, I kept an eye […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG20260412084639_edited-115x115.jpg "1996 ɛ̃fini RX-7 – Needle In A Haystack")
![It’s no good trying to be everything to everyone. We all know that instinctively, but I guess nobody told Honda that about 30 years ago. How did they figure that […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG20260203151819_edited-115x115.jpg "1999 Honda Z UM-4 Turbo – Pick A Lane!")
![We just had a look at the Lancia Dedra, so why not follow it up with another interpretation of the same platform in the distinctly boxy shape of the Alfa […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG20260412091630_edited-115x115.jpg "1995 Alfa Romeo 155 T/S TI-Z – Zany Zagato Swan Song")
![What are your top five Lancias? My list would include (in no particular order) the Flavia, the Aurelia, the Aprilia, the Fulvia and the Astura. Harder question: what are your […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG20260503082244_edited-115x115.jpg "1991 Lancia Dedra HF Turbo – Glad Someone Loves It")
![Fifty. Talk about a milestone. It’s not one of those that you can just whistle by, like turning thirty. I’m three years away from the Big Five-O myself, and it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/DSC_1335_edited-115x115.jpg "1996 Ferrari F50 – The Big Five-O")
![Ever looked at the E36 3-Series BMW and thought it could use a lot less rear overhang? Well, neither did I, but someone down in Munich obviously did. And ever […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG20260426112615_edited-115x115.jpg "1997 BMW 318ti – How Can One Leave This Behind?")
![For the longest time, the little VW Polo was, in the best German tradition, a three-door hatchback. We discussed this phenomenon on CC recently: smaller European cars fell into either […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_20220821_140046_edited-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1999 Volkswagen Polo “Black Selection” – Last One To Grow An (Extra) Pair")
![There it is, the ultimate ‘90s German luxobarge. The Everest of the range, the crown jewel of the three-pointed star, the Big Bad Benz. Two doors, four seats and twelve […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG_20220904_135938_edited-115x115.jpg "1995 Mercedes-Benz S 600 Coupé – Zwölf In Sheep’s Clothing")
![Among carmakers, Rover was the perennial sick man of Europe, to borrow a phrase used to describe the perennially-decomposing Ottoman Empire. When I moved to London to attend university in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/DSC_3227_edited-115x115.jpg "1998 Rover 600 – The English Patient")
![There are quite a few of these Rolly-polys around Tokyo, for sure. Thanks to the massive Economic Bubble of the ‘80s and ‘90s, Rolls sold a lot more cars in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG20260426093245_edited-115x115.jpg "1995 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur III – I’m #3, So Why Try Harder?")
![The scene is set in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, the location of MG’s main factory since 1929. By 1979, MG sales were on an inexorable decline, so the powers that be decided […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG20260222082701_edited-115x115.jpg "1994 MG RV8 – The Zombie B")
![This is going to be a small post about a big rig. We’ve had countless encounters with this generation of Suburbans on CC before, including in Japan where I found […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG_20221105_105140_edited-115x115.jpg "Curbside Find: 1990 GMC Suburban SLE – Fit For Purpose, Not Parking Spaces")
![When GM created the Saturn division in the late ‘80s, the main rationale put forth was that it should address the growing flood of Japanese cars being sold in the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG_20241024_150951_edited-115x115.jpg "1999 Saturn SC-2 – Wrong Side Of The Planet")
![Some people like to think of cars in terms of generalities and nationalities. British cars are fancy but fragile, German cars are solid, American cars are too big, and so […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG20250822183437_edited-115x115.jpg "1995 Renault 19 Cabriolet – Franco-Prussian Entente")
![I’m not going to sugar-coat it: the 405 was and so far remains my least-favourite big Peugeot. Maybe it’s because these were absolutely everywhere when I was in my teens. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG20260215100946_edited-115x115.jpg "1993 Peugeot 405 Mi 16 – (Not So) Sweet (Mi) Sixteen")
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