Autos
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8 touring motorcycles that outlived expectations
Honda showed the Gold Wing GL1000 at the Cologne show in October 1974, and it looked nothing like the sport bikes of the day. It…
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12 European sports cars that deserve to be the most collectible of their era
Europe spent the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s building small, clever sports cars that most buyers treated as fun and nothing more. The Lancia Fulvia HF…
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7 forgotten Toyota trucks that over-achieved
Toyota built the Toyota Stout light truck from April 1956, and export production kept going until February 2000. That is a 44-year run for a…
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9 Volkswagens that won’t stay cheap much longer
A Dutch importer named Ben Pon sketched the idea for a Volkswagen van in a doodle dated 23 April 1947, and that sketch now hangs…
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10 sports cars that defined an entire generation
MG announced the MGB roadster on 19 September 1962, and the MGB family went on to reach 523,836 cars. That kind of number turns a…
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9 forgotten convertibles years ahead of the competition
Peugeot showed the 401 Eclipse at the 1934 Paris Auto Show, and its steel roof folded away under the rear deck. Six decades later, folding…
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Chrysler lent five Alpine White Challenger R/Ts to Vanishing Point, and only four had the 440 and a four-speed
The Vanishing Point Challenger looks like one car on screen, but it was really five. For the 1971 road movie, Chrysler supplied five Alpine White…
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7 rear-engine cars that almost no one has seen
The Tatra T613 carried an air-cooled V8 in its tail and an Italian body by Vignale, and Tatra built it for officials in Communist Czechoslovakia.…
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10 forgotten El Caminos that never seemed to quit
Chevrolet sold 22,246 copies of the 1959 Chevrolet El Camino in its first year, a few hundred more than Ford’s Ranchero managed in its own…
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12 forgotten Fiats that deserved better
Fiat sold nearly 520,000 examples of the Fiat 500 Topolino between 1936 and 1955. That tiny car was Fiat’s take on a cheap people’s car,…
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