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49Curbside Classic: 1989-1992 Nissan Stanza (Bluebird U12): The Shrinking VioletBy Paul Niedermeyer October 14, 2020 (first posted 10/14/2014)    A couple of months ago, Perry shared his thoughts on the first generation of the Nissan Stanza, in a post titled Queen Dork . This is the third and final generation, and the kind of car you have to make a concerted effort to notice, given its exceptionally generic styling straight out of an insurance company ad of the times. A cloak of invisibility normally surrounds these cars, and they only become visible on the third Monday of the month. I forced myself to stop and shoot this one, because I truly wondered whether I would ever run into another one again in that rare state. So in case you ve not seen one exposed in a long while (or ever), here s your chance. Read the rest of this entry 12Curbside Outtake: Mercedes 300CD Coupe (W123) Let Us Pay Homage One More TimeBy Paul Niedermeyer October 14, 2020 Let us once more pay homage to one of the more classic curbside classics. There are certain cars that inevitably float up into that vaunted category: Volvo 200 Series, GM B/C Box Bodies, Mercedes W116 and W126, certain Panthers and Foxes, and a few others. But the W123 is right up there, at or near the top. And its successor, the W124 belongs there too, but they seem to rather suddenly have flown the coop. Do they not have the inherent perma-life qualities of the W123? Read the rest of this entry 131Back Row Classic: 1980 Lincoln Versailles Mixed MessagesBy Tom Klockau October 13, 2020 (first posted 10/13/2014)      Pity the poor Lincoln Versailles. Built to a price by the powers-that-be in Dearborn, the resulting Seville-fighter (not really) was a well-made car, the first car with factory clearcoat, the first car with halogen headlamps. It even had four-wheel disc brakes a rarity on Detroit cars at that time. It was a fine car. Comfortable. Right-sized. But it was still a Granada, and very overpriced. And there lies the rub. Read the rest of this entry 22Curbside Capsule: 1988 Suzuki Samurai Jimny CricketBy Joseph Dennis October 13, 2020 I watched a fair amount of animated Disney films when I was growing up.  The ones I liked best usually had some dark overtones or truly frightening characters.  I can t think of any Disney cartoon flicks I actively disliked, but The Rescuers from 77, featuring a greedy, sinister Madame Medusa and the chain-smoking, dog-hating Cruella Deville from One Hundred And One Dalmatians from 61 were two of my favorites.My grandparents owned one of the first VCRs of probably any people I knew, and every once in a while when my family was visiting, they d pop in some Disney movie they had taped off their local TV station for us grandkids.  Their choice of movie, Disney or not, was never simply about us being entertained, though.  It had to feature some kinds of morals or values or something they wanted to low-key teach us kids.  Enter Pinocchio and his lesson about truth-telling. Read the rest of this entry 19Vintage R T Review: 1972 Toyota Crown 2600 (S60) There s Some Very Good Reasons The Crown Failed In The USBy Paul Niedermeyer October 13, 2020 The failure of the Crown in the US market has been hard for many to grasp. If the Corona and Corolla and all the other Toyotas were so red hot in the US, why was the Crown such a flop? And it s not just that the S60 had a weird front end, although that undoubtedly pushed it over the edge and Toyota cancelled it in the US after just two years.The reasons are elucidated in this review. R T did not pull their punches either; they panned it. It was inferior in just about every respect compared to say a Chevy Nova. And quite so in some.The problem was that although the Crown felt very American it wasn t designed for the US. It was a big, prestigious sedan in Japan, despite its severe dynamic limitations. That didn t matter there. Toyota eventually figured it all out, with ever better Cressidas that paved the way for the category-killer Lexus LS. But that was still a way off in the future. In 1972, Toyota would just have to put up with a rare black eye. Read the rest of this entry 44Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 2020 Suzuki Jimny Toyota Should Rebadge It And Sell It Here The 2021 YariXBy Paul Niedermeyer October 12, 2020 Mid-sized trucks and Jeeps and Broncos are red hot. How about an even smaller truck, Yaris sized? How hard would it be for Toyota to rebadge the adorable Jimny and sell it in the US? The Yaris is being cancelled, so this would be the perfect replacement. Call it Yaris X . Or just YariX. Or a baby Land Cruiser.In Europe, a quite well equipped Jimny starts under €20,000, and that s with their VAT. If these were sold in the US for $20k, you think there wouldn t be folks waiting for the next shipment? A baby Wrangler/Bronco. College girls would be all over it. And me too. Just the ticket to replace my xB; big enough for the three of us, and I could hitch it behind the Promaster for off-road adventures far from home. Read the rest of this entry 35Curbside Classic: Mazda RX-7 FC3S – Middle Child SyndromeBy Joe Latshaw October 12, 2020 (originally posted on 2/28/12)    There was a time, in the halcyon days of the American auto industry – and, indeed, of America itself – when there were “Chevy families,” “Ford families,” and the like. I was born well after that era, but after the second fuel crisis in 1979, my father traded in his Ford Torino for what he called “the cheapest new car available,” a 1979 Mazda GLC. For the next 25 years, we were oddballs everywhere we went. We were a Mazda family. Read the rest of this entry

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