- Description
- 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.
![Mitsubishi remains one of Australia’s best-selling brands and has a better image here than in other markets such as the US and Canada. As a result, I see a lot […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mitsubishi-backup-cameras.jpg "QOTD: What’s The Most Infuriating Visual Afterthought?")
![One week ago today, it was New Year’s Day. Jason Shafer got the year off to a great start here on Curbside Classic with a splendid post on the Pontiac […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/3rd-gen-camaro-and-firebird.jpg "QOTD: What’s Your Favorite Flavor Of F-Body?")
![Looking at this Accord Aerodeck made me ponder: when was the last mid-sized station wagon sold in the North American market with a manual transmission? Hell, I had to stop […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/honda-accord-aerodeck-manual.jpg "CC Outtake: 1994-97 Honda Accord Aerodeck – Remember The Manual, Mid-Sized Wagon?")
![I’d been slowly amassing photos of each of the seven generations of Toyota Celica in Brisbane when I finally completed my collection. With today’s article on the seventh-generation Celica, I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/toyota-celica-1.jpg "QOTD: What’s Your Favorite Generation Of Toyota Celica?")
![I recall a story I read on the internet about a young woman’s thrifty mother. She had found a packet of cheese at the store for 25 cents and bought […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/great-wall-x240-2.jpg "CC Capsule: 2009-14 Great Wall X200/X240 – Don’t Laugh, The Chinese Will Get There Eventually")
![I used to mock the BMW X6. You may have noticed that, in some of my earlier pieces on this site, it was my go-to example of an ugly car. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/bmw_x6_2008_pictures_9_b.jpg "QOTD: Is There A Car That You Once Found Repulsive That Has Grown On You?")
![The early stages of buying a car, for me at least, typically involve writing a list of utterly left-field options that never end up making it to my shortlist. The […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/volvo-s80-v8-3.jpg "CC Capsule: 2006-10 Volvo S80 V8 – Swedish Power Metal")
![I’m ambivalent about art cars. Sometimes I feel it’s a waste to cover a perfectly decent-looking car in elaborate paint designs. But when it’s a Ford Maverick I simply say, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ford-maverick-art-car-4.jpg "CC Outtake: Ford Maverick – Goodbye Old Paint, Hello New Paint")
![“Maverick” must surely be one of the most reused car names in history. Interestingly, what was once the name for Ford’s second-smallest passenger car in the North American market ended […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ford-maverick-4wd-hardtop-3.jpg "CC Capsule: 1988-94 Ford Maverick – Ford Goes On Patrol")
![The Japanese may have experimented heavily in the 1980s with technology like four-wheel steering and turbocharging, but they were agonizingly slow at responding to the minivan concept promulgated by Chrysler […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/mitsubishi-starwagon-and-toyota-spacia.jpg "CC Capsule: 1986-2001 Mitsubishi Starwagon & 1993-96 Toyota Spacia – The Japanese Get It Wrong For Once"){kind=small}
![It’s always fun looking at familiar brands’ websites for different markets, isn’t it? Before the days of the internet, we had to rely on the occasional news piece in our […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/toyota-mark-x.jpg "CC Global: Missing Out? The Toyota Mark X – More Q-Ship Than X-Rated")
![We don’t often look at concept cars on Curbside Classic but every once in a while, a concept car harkens back to the past. But far beyond being merely a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/honda-urban-1.jpg "CC Concept Outtake: Honda Urban EV – Retro Electric")
![On my most recent visit to New York City, I caught up with a good friend of mine who lives in Brooklyn. We decided to meet at the Bedford Avenue […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/mystery-car-williamsburg-2.jpg "CC Outtake: And You Are…?")
