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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 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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/chevrolet-impala-ss-3.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/dodge-diplomat-se1.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/chevrolet-malibu-maxx-ss.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/dodge-dart-hang-10.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/dodge-spirit-3.jpg "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://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/fgfgfg.jpg "Automotive Histories: The Cars That Never Were")
![(first posted 2/4/2016) The cost of rehabilitating a “damaged” nameplate can be high. So is the cost of introducing and marketing an entirely new nameplate. If you introduce a high-quality, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1998-2004-cadillac-seville-sts.jpg "Automotive Histories: When The Old Names Died (Part III)")
![(first posted 2/1/2016) Is it any wonder the wheels started to come off Oldsmobile in the 1980s? While all of GM’s brands were guilty of expanding their reaches and cannibalizing […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1977-oldsmobile-toronado-xsr-print-ad.jpg "Top 10 Obscure Special Editions and Forgotten Limited-Run Models: Oldsmobile Edition, Part I")
![(first posted 1/26/2016) Lucerne. Cobalt. G6. Pleasant, inoffensive names that have one thing in common: they all replaced decades-old nameplates, and they each lasted only a single generation. Let’s take […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/bbb.jpg "Automotive Histories: When The Old Names Died (Part II)")
![(first posted 1/22/2016) In our last installment, we looked at five Pontiacs that attempted to channel the brand’s sporty image to achieve commercial success. Alas, none of them were particularly […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pontiac-grand-prix-turbo.jpg "Top 10 Obscure Special Editions and Forgotten Limited-Run Models: Pontiac Edition, Part II")
![(first posted 1/19/2016) In the 1990s, flagging sales had led GM to orchestrate a complete rebranding of the Oldsmobile line. The venerable Eighty-Eight, Cutlass and Ninety-Eight nameplates were scrapped, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1963-pontiac-grand-prix.jpg "Automotive Histories: When The Old Names Died (Part 1)")
![(first posted 1/7/2016) The Oldsmobile Intrigue was a volley lobbed right at the heart of the American car market. The best-selling cars in America during the 1990s were the Ford […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/oldsmobile-intrigue-4.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1998-2002 Oldsmobile Intrigue – Oldsmobile’s Last Best Hope")
![(first posted 1/4/2016) Staid Pontiac had been revitalised in the 1960s, assuming a hipper, more youthful image. The magic of the first GTO and Firebird was an elixir of life […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1978-pontiac-grand-am-sedan-1.jpg "Top 10 Obscure Special Editions and Forgotten Limited-Run Models: Pontiac Edition, Part I")
![(first posted 12/23/2015) Has there ever been an American brand as enduringly ill-defined as Mercury? A non-existent brand identity and a seemingly nebulous mission left the messenger brand as a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/mercury-sable-3.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1996-99 Mercury Sable – A Messenger Carrying An Illegible Message")
![(first posted 12/17/2015) Dear General Motors, Many of your business decisions during the 1980s and 1990s, at least in North America, were questionable at best. However, by the 2000s and even […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cadillac-dts-2.jpg "Future Curbside Classic: 2006-11 Cadillac DTS – A Letter to GM")
