Luxury Cars
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12 luxury coupes that prove they don’t build them like this anymore
Cadillac sold 17,930 copies of the 1967 Cadillac Eldorado, nearly three times the nameplate’s previous best year. Buyers wanted a big, beautiful two-door with a…
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6 convertibles that are harder to restore than they appear
The Ford Thunderbird Sports Roadster hid its back seat under a fiberglass tonneau cover, and Ford built only 1,427 of them for 1962. From across…
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11 supercharged cars that still stop traffic
Graham-Paige, a Detroit carmaker, built more supercharged cars than any other manufacturer for decades. Then Buick finally passed it in the 1990s with a supercharged…
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7 forgotten Packards that were pure blasts to drive
Packard built just 150 examples of its 1930 Packard 734 Speedster, and America’s Packard Museum says the car could top 100 mph. That was a…
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7 Continentals so rare they rarely turn up at auction
The first Lincoln Continental cabriolet began as one man’s vacation car. Edsel Ford wanted something European in feel for a trip in March 1939, and…
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7 rare luxury cars executed without compromise
The Bugatti Type 41 Royale went on sale with a basic chassis price of $30,000, just as the Great Depression began. Only three found outside…
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Packard built its 1949 Ultramatic entirely in-house and locked the torque converter for direct drive
Most American automakers that wanted an automatic in the late 1940s bought one from somebody else. Packard built its own. The Packard Ultramatic arrived in…
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7 forgotten Thunderbirds years ahead of the competition
Ford sold 92,843 Thunderbirds in 1960, and a buyer who chose the 1960 Thunderbird hardtop could order a manually operated sunroof. Even so, that small…
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9 Cadillacs that never seemed to quit
Cadillac built 92,554 cars in 1949, and 55,643 of them were the Cadillac Series 62. That one line tells you how much of the brand…
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8 Mercedes-Benz models we’d refuse to sell at any price
Every classic Mercedes-Benz carries the same promise: it was built to an engineering standard first and a price second. That idea gave the world fuel-injected…
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