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It was like telling a fourth grade class they were going to Disneyland. Upon landing in southern France to drive the 2019 Mercedes-Benz G-Class, the assembled group of jet lagged automotive writers were informed that they were not only about to drive the first next-generation G-Class ever (incredibly cool and exciting in its own right) […]
During the 1980s, if you had serious bucks and wanted to flaunt them with your choice of massive European luxury car, you had one sensible choice: the Mercedes-Benz W126. Stupefyingly complex, yes, but built so well that mechanical troubles didn’t dare occur, the W126 showed the world that you were rich and planning to stay […]
Just before the sport utility vehicle made the cultural transition from “jouncy, utilitarian truck” to “tall commuter hatchback with seldom-needed AWD and vaguely outdoorsy image”, it was considered desirable— or at least acceptable— for such vehicles to have two doors. Nissan turned its Hardbody pickup into an SUV, and the Pathfinder was born. Here’s one […]
The Civic was king of its domain in the late 1980s, with every single new one flying out of American Honda showrooms so quickly (and generally priced well above MSRP) that certain corporate managers got rich by shaking down inventory-starved dealerships. The fourth-generation Civic wagon wasn’t sold in quite the numbers of its hatchback or […]
The W123 Mercedes-Benz was such an all-points-of-the-compass durability legend that nothing would have been able to top it, but its W124 successor came as close as could be expected. The W124 station wagon sold well, especially in California; here’s a high-miles ’89 in a San Francisco Bay Area self-service wrecking yard. I hear Mercedes-Benz fanatics […]
The 1983-1988 Thunderbird was based on the same rear-wheel-drive Fox platform as the Mustang and Continental, then moved to the bigger and more sophisticated MN12 platform for the 1989 model year. The earlier Thunderbird Turbo Coupe, with turbocharged Pinto engine, was replaced by the Super Coupe, boasting a supercharged 3.8 liter V6. Here’s an evil-looking […]
The emergency alert was stark and devoid of detail: “Major incident declared. Please report to helipad.” Barely 10 days had passed since Jihadi terrorists had killed eight civilians and injured 48 as they ploughed through pedestrians with a van on London Bridge before embarking on a stabbing spree. The 39-year-old senior emergency medicine consultant had […]
The stereotypical vehicle of the San Francisco Bay Area hippie who follows a jam band all around the country is the Type 2 Volkswagen Transporter, preferably the pre-1968 models. In reality, though, actual hippies (the kind without trust funds) travel the country in vehicles more like today’s Junkyard Gem: a big Detroit van. Here’s a […]
In addition to leading Chrysler back to profitability after the federal bailout of 1979 (by betting heavily, and successfully, on the new K Platform), Lee Iacocca also managed to sign up Carroll Shelby to help design a bunch of factory-hot-rod Chryslers. Starting in the 1983 model year, a series of cars based on the K […]
