- 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.
![Before we talk about the virtues of the Peugeot 407 Coupe, we need to address the elephant in the room. Or is it a shark? Peugeot, in the 2000s, had […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/peugeot-407-coupe-1.jpg "Curbside Capsule: 2006 – 2010 Peugeot 407 Coupe – Polarizing Pug")
![Not every car is destined to be a success. Those that do succeed commercially, however, may not do so across the board. Ford’s first Taurus, for example, was available with […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/amc-eagle-kammback.jpg "(The Not Often Seen) Curbside Classics")
![The Opel Omega wasn’t the only car to be sliced down the middle and widened for Australian consumption. Three years prior, Mitsubishi introduced the Magna, a car that helped cement […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/mitsubishi-magna-1.jpg "Curbside Capsule: 1985-91 Mitsubishi Magna – Mitsubishi’s Taurus")
![With the news of Jim’s exciting new car purchase, the thought occurred to me that I had never followed up on my March 2014 article. In September of last year, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/suzuki-swift-cino.jpg "COAL: You Helped Me Pick My Third COAL")
![You all know about the Chevrolet Cavalier. You probably know about the Pontiac J2000/Sunbird, Buick Skyhawk, Oldsmobile Firenza and Cadillac Cimarron. There was also the Opel Ascona and Vauxhall Cavalier […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Daewoo-Espero-photo-courtesy-Juan-Barret.jpg "Curbside Capsule: Daewoo Espero – J-Car in an Italian Suit")
![Today, South Korea manufactures hundreds of thousands of high-quality, competitive sedans, hatchbacks and crossovers. GM’s Korean operations, for instance, produce the Chevrolet Spark, Sonic, Cruze and Malibu. Not too long […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Hyundai-Sonata.jpg "Curbside Capsule: Daewoo Nubira – A Family COAL")
![The W-Body is not a platform that gets a lot of love from enthusiasts, but it is one that, for better or for worse, has been in constant production since […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2002_pontiac_grand-prix_sedan_se_fq_oem_1_500.jpg "QOTD: What’s Your Favorite W-Body?")
![The 1980s were one of the worst decades for General Motors. Market share tumbled from 46% in 1980 to 35% by the decade’s end. The GM X-Body was launched for 1980 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Buick-Regal-GM-10-3.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1988-96 GM-10 Buick Regal – Right Car, Wrong Time")
![I love the Chrysler 300. It’s a beautiful car that showed the masses want a full-size American sedan with rear-wheel-drive and even a V8, if it looked really good. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_2034.jpg "CC Outtake: Suddenly, The 1991-92 Caprice Doesn’t Look So Bad")
![A length of 126 inches. Width of 55 inches. Total curb weight, around 1212lbs. A 543cc three-cylinder, four-stroke engine with 28 horsepower and 31 ft-lbs of torque. 52mpg. And a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Suzuki-Mighty-Boy2.jpg "Curbside Capsule: Suzuki Mighty Boy – The Name Says It All")
![This compact, with its gauche chrome affectations, represents the last conventional compact offering from quirky Daihatsu. To paraphrase their oft-repeated tagline, “Who can build a compact for ten years with few […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Daihatsu-Applause-1.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1997-99 Daihatsu Applause – *sound of crickets in audience*")
![In my Pulsar article earlier today, I mentioned how I pored over a brochure for the Nissan Pulsar range as a five-year-old. That should give you some idea of how […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/themes/arras-3.0.3/images/thumbnail.png "CC TV: Favorite Car Commercials of My Childhood")
![As a child, I distinctly recall leafing through a brochure of the 1995 Nissan Pulsar. I loved the way they looked, even after being on the market since 1991. I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Nissan-Pulsar-11.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1991-95 Nissan Pulsar (AUS) – Leader of the Pack")
![This time last year, I was travelling to Pittsburgh for Christmas. The drive from New York was over six hours and mostly uneventful, but as we got into the city, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Dodge-Mirada-1.jpg "Curbside Capsule: Dodge Magnum and Mirada – Last Christmas These Stole My Heart")
![This is a car that must have you scratching your heads. After all, it is a peculiar Australian-only body style of a Japanese sedan with an American badge, using an old […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nissan-bluebird-aussie-05.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1989-92 Ford Corsair/Nissan Pintara – A Lame Duck Bluebird")
