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![Rental Car Review: 2019 Mercedes-Benz GLS 450 It is time for my annual installment of the Halter family summer vacation rental car review. We always get a big SUV to haul around our family of four, with […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMG_0102.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)

![Rental Car Review: 2017 Nissan Armada – What’s New Is Old While I was on my recent vacation in Hawaii, I had the opportunity to rent a 2017 Nissan Armada. While the vehicle itself is fairly unremarkable, what is interesting is […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/IMG_9479.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Unicorn Hunt: 1961 Lincoln Continental Pillarless Hardtop Sedan Take a close look at the car in the lead photo – do you see anything missing? Eagle-eyed Lincoln spotters will immediately tell you that all non-convertible 1961-69 Lincoln Continentals […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1961_LincForHardtop_HR-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Road Trip: Curbside Classics of the Big Island of Hawaii My series of articles on my recent trip to the Big Island of Hawaii was originally going to be a two parter, ending with the conclusion that car culture as we know it on the US […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/IMG_9458.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Road Trip: Abandoned Cars of Hawaii As I mentioned in Part 1 this series, the Big Island of Hawaii is a relatively closed system of cars. The primary source of autos is in the form of new cars that are shipped […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/IMG_9360.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Road Trip: Cars of the Big Island of Hawaii Aloha, and Welcome to Hawaii! I recently returned from a week-long vacation on the island of Hawaii (more commonly known as the “Big Island.”) While many people vacation here for the beautiful beaches and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/IMG_9384.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![CC Capsule: 2009 Mercury Milan VOGA – Strike a Pose Look around everywhere you turn is heartache It’s everywhere that you go (look around) You try everything you can to escape The pain of life that you know (life that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IMG_8467.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![QOTD: What Car Does This Button Brigade Belong To? As this site’s resident gadget geek, I loves me some buttons (see my paeans to Apple CarPlay and autonomous cars for just two examples). However, I think this dashboard (that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_5309.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Auction Classic: Ron Hackenberger Auction Remember that crazy 700+ car hoard coming for auction that we reported on a few months back? Well this past weekend was when it all went down, and I was […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_7397-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![QOTD: What’s the Worst Blank Panel You’ve Ever Seen? We all know about blank panels (also known as knockout plugs, or blanking plugs): Those placeholder trim pieces and caps that serve as a constant reminder of all options that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_7338.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![Dr. Driving Glove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Autonomous Car In the COAL article of my 2017 Ford Fusion Titanium, I heaped praise upon the various driving assist technologies in this car, including all-speed adaptive cruise control, lane departure […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/waymo_minivan_7.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)
![QOTD: What Kind of Car is This? I’ve been blogging here at Curbside Classic for six months now (and loving every minute of it, BTW), but I still don’t feel quite like a true auto journalist. It […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_7226.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)

![COAL: 2017 Ford Fusion Platinum – The Car of a Lifetime Welcome to the final entry (for now) in my COAL series. This series of posts, begun over six months ago, now totals almost 35,000 words. By comparison, Hamlet, Shakespeare’s longest play, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_6436.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1)


