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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 5/1/5/2015) Chrysler is one of the few brands today that doesn’t offer a crossover, a fact made all the more mystifying by CEO Sergio Marchionne’s plan to make […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/chrysler-pacifica-2.jpg "Future Curbside Classic: 2004-08 Chrysler Pacifica – No Chernobyl, Not Even A Three Mile Island")
![(first posted 5/7/2015) Holden’s core product for decades has always been a rear-wheel-drive sedan equipped with six- and eight-cylinder engines, but the supporting lineup has changed markedly over time. After […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/holden.jpg "Curbside Classic: 2003-05 Holden ZC Vectra – A High Flyer Stuck At Baggage Check")
![(first posted 4/21/2015) After a very safe mid-cycle enhancement of the first Taurus in 1992, Dick Landgraff and his team were seeking to recreate the excitement the inaugural Taurus’s design […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Taurus-wagon.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1996-99 Ford Taurus Wagon – Making Over A Family Friend")
![(first posted 2/12/2015) It is looking increasingly likely that the next Holden Commodore will be an imported, front-wheel-drive, Opel-based product. A Commodore being based on an Opel is hardly anything […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/a-ho.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1988-91 Holden VN Commodore – Revisiting the Opel Mine")
![(first posted 1/29/2015) I want to make something very clear. From that title, it sounds like I’m criticizing this generation of Chevrolet’s personal luxury coupe for losing the rear-wheel-drive layout […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/chevrolet-monte-carlo-ls-3.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1995-99 Chevrolet Monte Carlo – Lumina Coupe Two")
![(first posted 1/16/2015) It’s a peculiar pattern. From the early 1970s all the way up until their demise in 2006, the Australian Ford Fairlane and LTD would completely transform visually […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1976-Ford-Marquis-4.jpg "Large and in Charge: A Visual History of the Aussie Ford Fairlane and LTD")
![(first posted 1/13/2015) While GM was in the midst of downsizing in the US, there was some downsizing occurring elsewhere in their empire. The HZ Holden sedans and wagons, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/800px-1980_HDT_Commodore_VC_sedan_01-Mark-Brown.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1978-81 Holden VB/VC Commodore – The Beginning of a New Era")
![(first posted 12/16/2014) Don’t call it another renaissance. Cadillac has recently launched two extremely talented sports sedans, the ATS and CTS. The latest CTS weighs less than key rivals […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a-sts.jpg "Future CC: The Smooth, Quiet Road to Nowhere, Part 2 – Cadillac STS")
![(first posted 12/3/2014) The Cadillac STS and Buick Lucerne were both introduced in the mid-2000s to serve as flagship, full-size luxury sedans for their respective brands. Both sedans were caught […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a-luc.jpg "Future Curbside Classics: The Smooth, Quiet Road to Nowhere – Part 1: Buick Lucerne")
![(first posted 11/24/2014) What you are looking at here is the object of my teenage lust. While some teenage boys had posters of Lamborghinis and Ferraris in their rooms, I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/a-t.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1996-98 Ford Taurus Ghia – The Hometown Falcon Knocks Out The Ovoid Contender")
![(first posted 11/6/2014) The fifth-generation Seville was the most ambitious iteration yet of Cadillac’s import fighter. Designed with an eye to export markets, Cadillac believed the Seville could take on […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cadillac-seville-fifth-generation-3.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1998-04 Cadillac Seville – The FWD Sport Sedan’s Last Stand")
![It should be a requirement that an example of every economy car should be stored in a museum. After all, these are cars that are such a fundamental part of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1982-datsun-pulsar-coupe-1.jpg "Curbside Capsule: 1982 Datsun Pulsar Coupe (N10) – Not Quite A Magnetic Star")
![(first posted 8/5/2014) Part one and part two of this series merely scratched the surface of the world of badge engineering. In this week’s installment, we look at: a phantom […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Fiat_Freemont_4.gif "Obscure Rebadges From Around The World: Part 3")
![This was going to be the story of my Holden ZB Calais V. I was going to explain to you how our ZB Commodore range differed from the Buick Regal […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2015-hyundai-genesis-ultimate-4.jpg "Cars Of A Lifetime #6: 2015 Hyundai Genesis Ultimate – Not Settling")
![Three years ago with my new (used) car. It’s only a matter of time before a “big Aussie six” – a locally-made, six-cylinder, rear-wheel-drive Ford Falcon or Holden Commodore – […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ford-falcon-g6e-fg-19-1.jpg "Cars Of A Lifetime: 2009 Ford FG Falcon G6E – Curtain Call For Edie Falcon")
