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- William Stopford hails from Brisbane in Queensland, Australia but recently lived for a year in his favorite city, New York City. Having been an active contributor on Curbside Classic while living in two different countries, William has been able to provide readers with articles from both an American and an Australian market perspective. He has been an enthusiast from a very young age, and was once pulled aside by his preschool teacher and asked to bring something other than car magazines for show and tell as he was “boring” the other children.
![(first posted 4/12/2016) For almost every generation in its 61-year existence, the Toyota Crown has had styling that is best described as “generic Japanese luxury car”. One exception was the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/toyota-crown-s60-3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Capsule: 1971-74 Toyota Crown (S60) Sedan – Striking Is The Head That Wears The Crown")
![(first posted 3/29/2016) New York City is a mecca for filming. How could it not be? It is an iconic, beautiful city with a government that is friendly to production […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/nyc-on-location-7.png?resize=115%2C115&quality=80&ssl=1 "On Location Classics: Why I Miss New York City")
![(first posted 3/22/2016) Land Rover is releasing a convertible version of its Evoque soft-roader, similar to the recently discontinued Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet. The German automakers are offering more and more […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/suzuki-x90-5.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1996-98 Suzuki X-90 – Ahead Of Its Time?")
![(first posted 1/15/2016) Is it cheating to include this car in Toyota week? After all, the Toyota Lexcen was built in the same Elizabeth, South Australia factory as the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/toyota-lexcen5.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1989-97 Toyota Lexcen – A Different Kind Of Toyota: Not A Toyota")
![(first posted 3/15/2016) Americans don’t like hatchbacks. It’s sad, but it’s true. Oh, they will tolerate them on inexpensive subcompacts and compacts but beyond that they, and to a lesser […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/bmw-3-series-compact-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1995-99 BMW 3-Series Compact – The Bob-Tailed Bimmer")
![(first posted 3/10/2016) The focal point of Nissan’s new prestige brand was the Q45, much like the LS400 was to the Lexus brand. Both Nissan and Toyota realized, though, that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/infiniti-m30-3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1990-92 Infiniti M30 – To Infinity And Nowhere")
![(first posted 3/4/2016) 280 pound-feet of torque: that was the highest torque figure ever seen in a GM W-Body until the introduction of the transversely-mounted 5.3 LS4 V8 to the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ggggnm.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Future Curbside Classic: 2006-09 Chevrolet Impala SS – A Hot Mess")
![(first posted 3/3/2016) Don’t take that headline to mean any of GM’s current fleet wouldn’t make a sound used car buy. On the contrary. However, the 2006 Impala – still […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/imppii.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Future Curbside Classic: 2006 Chevrolet Impala – The Last “Good Used Car” From General Motors")
![(first posted 1/18/2013) In the rich history of the Australian automotive industry, few cars have offered so much hope–and have provided so much disappointment–as GM’s ill-fated Australian J-car adaptation, the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ccnmh.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: Holden Camira – The Short-Lived Australian J-Car")
![(first posted 2/21/2016) A spacious cabin. Surprisingly good fuel economy. A controlled and relatively compliant ride. Low repair costs and widespread parts availability. These are attributes of the Impala […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/chevrolet-impala-ss-3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1994-96 Chevrolet Impala SS – Killer Whale")
![(first posted 2/13/2016) It’s funny to think that this time five eleven, (as of the tie of this repost) years ago, Paul Niedermeyer was hanging out the sign and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/dodge-diplomat-se1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: Dodge Diplomat SE – Fond Memories: Celebrating Five (Now 11) Years of Curbside Classic")
![(first posted 2/12/2016) There is currently no “sporty” trim level of the Chevrolet Malibu. There wasn’t one in the 1978-83 Malibu lineup, nor the 1997-2003 lineup. But between 2006 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/chevrolet-malibu-maxx-ss.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Outtake: 2006-07 Chevrolet Malibu Maxx SS – A Very, Very Different Malibu")
![(first posted 2/12/2016) Did you think every obscure special edition and forgotten limited-run Mopar model had been covered in Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series? Not […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/dodge-dart-hang-10.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "The Most Obscure Special Editions and Forgotten Limited-Run Models: Dodge City")
![(first posted 2/10/2016) In hindsight, one may be tempted to dismiss the Dodge Spirit and Plymouth Acclaim as being frumpy sedans with dated mechanicals. After all, these sedans – […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/dodge-spirit-3.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic: 1989-95 Dodge Spirit – Worthy Of Some Acclaim")
![(first posted 2/8/2016) One of Australia’s oldest and most popular car magazines, Wheels, recently published an article with renderings and photographs of clay mock-ups of several Zeta-based Holden Commodore derivatives […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/fgfgfg.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Automotive Histories: The Cars That Never Were")
