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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 1/13/2016) If you want a mainstream mid-sized sedan with all-wheel-drive today, your only choices wear Subaru, Chrysler or Ford badges. Five years ago? Subaru, Ford/Mercury […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/toyota-camry-all-trac1.jpg "Curbside Capsule: 1991 Toyota Camry All-Trac – A Brief Four-By-Foray")
![(first posted 8/20/2015) The re-introduction of a full-size, body-on-frame, rear-wheel-drive sedan to Buick’s lineup in the 1990s was somewhat surprising. After all, despite switching almost entirely to front-wheel-drive […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buick-roadmaster-2.jpg "Curbside Find: 1992-96 Buick Roadmaster Sedan – Who Needs An SUV?")
![(first posted 8/10/2019) The Westward Go-4 Interceptor has been produced since the early 1990s. It’s used by municipalities across the United States and Canada, predominantly as a parking […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/westward-go-4-4.jpg "Curbside Find: Westward Go-4; Where Do You Think You’re Going? – Checking Out A Retired Parking Enforcement Three Wheeler")
![(first posted 6/28/2017) Swiss-American socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein continued to have facelifts so she would look more like a cat. The Saab 9-5 continued to have them so […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/saab-95-1.jpg "Curbside Find: 2006-08 Saab 9-5 – Bad Plastic Surgery")
![Imagine the jeers, the scorn. You’re pulling into a classic car show in your gleaming, cherry red ’89 Ford Mustang GT Turbo 2.2. Enthusiasts are giving you the side-eye, muttering […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ford-probe-gt-7.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1989-92 Ford Probe – Protecting A Legacy")
![The spotless aqua paint and full wheel covers of this Checker Marathon make me think this wasn’t once a taxi cab, as so many of its brethren were. Which makes […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/checker-marathon-2.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1969-73 Checker Marathon – A Sensible Taxi Purchase, A Strange Private Purchase")
![Subaru’s reputation and popularity has been built on the backs of conservative wagons, from the DL/GL/Leone wagons of the 1970s to the Foresters of today. Long before the Impreza WR-X […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/subaru-vortex-xt-1.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1985-90 Subaru XT/Vortex – The Brightest Star In Subaru’s Constellation")
![Over seven instalments, I’ve featured almost three dozen different rebadged vehicles. Alas, I’ve only seen a grand total of two of these vehicles in the metal. On my recent trip […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/obscure-rebadges-8-1.jpg "Obscure Rebadges Around The World Part 8")
![(first posted 7/25/2019) The first Honda Civic was the car that got Honda well and truly noticed for its car-making abilities. With a steady diet of sales and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/honda-city-1g-2.jpg "Curbside Find: 1981-86 Honda City – They Grow Up So Fast!")
![William Oliver continues to impress with his Cohort contributions. In this series of photographs, taken in Toronto, he’s captured two of the most beautiful GM products of the 1960s: first-generation […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/william-oliver-buick-riviera-cadillac-eldorado-1.jpg "Curbside Finds: The Golden Era Of GM Design – 1963-64 Buick Riviera and 1969 Cadillac Eldorado")
![(first posted 4/17/2019) While strolling through Vienna’s Innere Stadt and taking in the gorgeous heritage architecture, I beheld a sight rather less aesthetically pleasing: two cars considered to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fiat-multipla-ssangyong-rodius-1.jpg "Curbside Finds: Ssangyong Rodius and Fiat Multipla – Ugly Is Skin Deep")
![(first posted 10/18/2017) No, I’m not talking about the North American market Odyssey when I apply the “World’s Sexiest Minivan” label. As you can see, the featured Odyssey […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/honda-odyssey-gen-3-7.jpg "2004-08 & 2008-13 Honda Odyssey – World’s Sexiest Minivan")
![(first posted 6/25/2018) I was walking home from watching the Brazil vs. Costa Rica match at a bar when I saw something that made me do a double-take. We […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mitsubishi-l300-express.jpg "Curbside Find: 1982-85 Mitsubishi L300 Express Starwagon – The Past, The Present And The Future")
![(first posted 6/3/2019) In 2010, Jeep walked away from the three-row market. Their first attempt at a three-row SUV, the Commander, arrived just before a tumultuous period […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/jeep-commander-5.jpg "Curbside Classic: 2006-10 Jeep Commander – “Unfit For Human Consumption”")
![(first posted 3/28/2016) If you want to know why Mitsubishi remains a major player in Australia despite being an also-ran in other markets, it helps to look at […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/mitsubishi-magna-elite-wagon-6.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1989-91 Mitsubishi Magna Elite Wagon – A More-Than-Galant Effort")
