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2024 Micro Microlino – This Electric Bubble Car May Be All You Need If You Don’t Need To Exceed 56 MPH
Posted on May 13, 2025 | 16 Comments(note: the Microlino is not available in the US) Do you miss the Isetta and Messerschmidt bubble cars? Do you think one could be an answer to today’s traffic, width […] -
Car Show Classic: 1985 Oldsmobile Calais Supreme – A Happy Baby
Posted on May 11, 2025 | 64 Comments(first posted 5/10/2019) The GM N-body cars of the ’80’s have been covered several times over the years here at Curbside Classic, usually when a tired, can’t-believe-this-is-still-on-the-road […] -
2000-09 Daewoo Tacuma – The Daewoo America Narrowly Missed
Posted on May 1, 2025 | 27 Comments(first posted 4/25/2019) Daewoo finally entered the lucrative US market in 1999 and, just as it did, its perilous financial situation caught up with it. Just a […] -
Spotted: 1989 AWD TL 8-14 – An Interesting Horsebox
Posted on May 1, 2025 | 2 CommentsI’ve previously noted on CC that if you want to see a Leyland truck, you have to go a classic vehicle show of some sort; to buy one, you go […] -
Car Show Classic: 1969 Honda N360 AT – Think Small… No, Smaller Than That
Posted on April 27, 2025 | 41 Comments(first posted 4/16/2019) As promised in my recent double post on a classic car meet I attended in France, here’s one car I saw there that merits its […] -
Driveway Finds: 2002-2006 Suzuki Aerio – Adios Aerios
Posted on April 19, 2025 | 59 Comments(first posted 8/29/2014) On of my neighbors seems to rather like Aerios. And what’s not to like, if you like tall, narrow roomy boxes on little wheels? […] -
1963 Ferrari 250 GTO – The $50,000,000 Question
Posted on April 16, 2025 | 22 CommentsAlthough they are objectively beautiful, rare and very fast, I’m totally out of my depth when it comes to older Ferraris. Especially the 250 – there were just too many […] -
Car Show Classic: 1975 Chevrolet Monza 5.7 – More Monza Madness
Posted on April 14, 2025 | 48 Comments(first posted 4/10/2019) Cars & Coffee events in Brisbane tend to attract the same people so I almost always end up seeing the same cars. I went to […] -
Curbside Capsule: 1998-2005 Kia Carnival/Sedona – How Easy It Is To Make A Minivan
Posted on March 31, 2025 | 35 Comments(first posted 3/29/2019) Kia’s first attempt at a minivan was a commercial success. Just two years after its launch, it became the best-selling minivan in Australia. In […] -
Curbside Classic: 1994 Ferrari 348 Spider – Paging Christie Brinkley
Posted on March 25, 2025 | 27 Comments(First published 12/16/2015) Well Christie Brinkley never drove a 348 Spider, let alone any Ferrari that wasn’t red in either of her appearances in the National Lampoon’s Vacation series, it’s still hard not […] -
Curbside Classic: Ford Courier – A Survivor of the The Lesser Pickup Epoch
Posted on March 19, 2025 | 41 Comments(first posted 3/22/2019) The whole mini-pickup boom is quickly becoming another historical era, like the Great Brougham Epoch. Pickups are of course more in than ever, but […] -
Curbside Classic: 1985-98 Ford Courier & 1986-96 Mitsubishi Triton – Trusty (But Not Rusty) Old Tools
Posted on March 17, 2025 | 14 Comments(first posted 3/9/2019) Most pickups are workhorses, a tool for their owners like a hammer or a pair of pliers. They’re hardy and built to last but […] -
Curbside Find: 1962 Ford Falcon – Birdie Num-Num
Posted on March 14, 2025 | 35 CommentsAh, the Falcon. Has Detroit produced anything blander in the blessed decade of the ‘60s? Maybe AMC, but they were the underdog. Ford, on the other hand, should have been […] -
Curbside Capsule: 2005-10 Fiat Croma – Monocromatic
Posted on March 12, 2025 | 19 Comments(first posted 5/13/2019) GM’s Epsilon platform was used by a vast array of vehicles, including the Chevrolet Malibu, Saab 9-3 and Opel Vectra. As part of Fiat’s […]