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CC Road Trip/Rental Review (Part 2): 2018 Volvo V90 Inscription T8 AWD –...
The wagon. It’s a car that hasn’t found much appreciation in North America for several decades now, apart from versions jacked up several inches and laden with plastic body cladding for the rugged,...
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Curbside Classic: 2000 Jaguar S-Type – The Big Cat Takes A Leap
Name the first luxury automobile brand that comes to mind, and I’ll bet it’s something German or Japanese, or possibly American. Even narrowing it down to just Britain, and it is likely that said...
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CC Capsule: 1991 Toyota Camry DX Wagon – Gut Fish, Not Houses
Regardless of one’s personal opinion of the Toyota Camry, it’s a quantitative fact that the Camry ranks high as one of history’s best selling car. With well over 10 million sold worldwide and...
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Curbside Classic: 1999 Chrysler Cirrus LXi – Remember When Chrysler Showed Hope?
These days, it’s rather hard to imagine a time when Chrysler’s future looked bright and optimistic. It’s even more difficult to imagine a time when Chrysler had a competitive entry in a crucial...
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CC Capsule: 2004 Oldsmobile Silhouette Final 500 – The Rarest Of Minivans?
Minivans are hardly the type of vehicles that attract enthusiasts or collectors, but alas, even they have not been immune to special and commemorative editions, and even limited-production collectors...
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CC Cohort Outtakes: Three Decades Of Chrysler Rooflines
How much does car styling change over the course of 20 years through three different decades? Quite a bit actually. Avid Cohort contributor Canadiancatgreen recently posted a number of interesting...
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CC Capsule: 1990 Mercury Sable LS Wagon – The Shape You Want To Be In
(First Published 4/2/2015) It’s hard to imagine that the original Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable will be turning thirty by year’s end. At the time of their release, this duo’s smooth aero styling was...
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Curbside Classic: 1987 Opel Kadett E 1.3 Jubilee – Universal Soldier
Throughout the course of history, with seemingly little regard to social, climatic, and economic events, General Motors has always been an automaker heavily focused on big vehicles. Simply put,...
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CC Feature: 2000 Karl Lagerfeld BMW 750iL L7 Individual – The Brougham-iest BMW
(First posted 8/6/2013; Rescheduled as a tribute to Karl Lagerfeld, who passed on earlier this week at age 85) — Pillowy, button-tufted seats and abundance of wood trim often conjure thoughts of...
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Curbside Classic: 1993 Pontiac Bonneville SE – Plus Bonne Dans Ta “Bonneville”
If there was one GM nameplate to pull a full-180 turnaround for the better in the 1980s, it was the Pontiac Bonneville. Launched as the halo car of GM’s “excitement division”, the Bonneville soon...
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CC News: FCA To Jeep Liberty Owners With Sky Slider Roof –“You’re F**ked”
Lasting between the original XJ Jeep Cherokee and the crossover KL Jeep Cherokee for two generations, the Jeep Liberty was a compact SUV in which generally more bad than good could be said about it,...
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QOTD: Are You Guilty Of Not Clearing Snow Off Your Car?
The easiest way to tell if a car hasn’t been driven for an extended period of time is in winter when it snows. Often, it is the case where I see cars sitting for days in driveways left buried under...
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Curbside Classics: 1986 & 1990 Toyota Cressida – The Ur-Lexus Or The Un-Lexus?
The fourth and final generation Toyota Cressida was by no means an exciting car. Clean and innocuous-looking, it could be confused with just about any late-1980s Japanese sedan. Yet underneath its...
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CC Capsule: 1994 Ferrari 348 Spider – Paging Christie Brinkley
(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...
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CC Outtake: 1990 Jeep Grand Wagoneer – The Elite-Ender Weekender
I doubt that few could have guessed that SUVs, with their favorable seating position, versatility, and somewhat inflated sense of security would ultimately overtake the automobile industry and leave...
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CC For Sale: 1993 Jeep Grand Wagoneer (ZJ) – The Last Jeep Grand Wagoneer?
Produced with few dramatic changes for three decades, the original “SJ” Jeep Wagoneer/Grand Wagoneer successfully cemented its place as one of the most iconic vehicles of all time. There comes a time,...
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CC Capsule: 1960 Dodge Dart Seneca – The Dart Goes Down Under
Posted at the CC Cohort by KiwiBryce (first posted 8/19/2013) The year 1960 was a fairly significant one for the automotive industry. It marked, among many things, the final year of the doomed...
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Curbside Classic/CC Comparison: 2016 BMW 228i xDrive and 1988 BMW 325ix –...
As a car lover and seasoned Curbivore, it’s always a treat when I see a “classic” and its modern descendent parked next too each other, making me wonder if it was on purpose. Naturally, I usually will...
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CC Outtakes: 2004 and 2019 Lexus LS – Does It Really Matter Anymore?
Sad as it may be, sedans are a dying breed. If there’s any indication of the sedan’s ever-diminishing importance to most automakers, it’s in the smaller-than-ever scale of new model launches and...
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