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by CaptBLI
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by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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Feast your eyes, mateys, for this is how your country is supposed to look. This is what the First Amendment was made for: if you think our democracy is in danger then you’re supposed to amplify that message in whatever way you can. And while not...
by freewayblogger
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on Tue Aug 06, 2019 at 12:46 PM PDT
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The latest from twump ought to make the car dealers, auto companies and consumers ecstatic. Not to mention other manufacturers.
From today's front page of the industry weekly, Automotive News, this leads the front page of their digital edition. (I...
by PinHole
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on Fri May 31, 2019 at 01:20 AM PDT
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4 wheels and an engine: that’s what a car should be, right? Well, for 67 years, Britain’s Reliant Motor Company couldn’t even do that. They become famous for their 3 wheelers and were the butt of every joke. And yet, they wound up at one point being...
by kernals
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on Wed Mar 06, 2019 at 07:51 AM PST
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Ever heard of AMC? They disappeared after being absorbed into Chrysler in 1987 and even before then it was easy to forget they existed. But for 43 years, as America’s last independent automaker, the company survived on reliable, efficient small cars....
by kernals
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on Mon Mar 04, 2019 at 07:19 PM PST
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It’s easily Italy’s most famous car. It’s only 10 feet long. I’m of course talking about the Fiat 500, or Cinquecento, as Italians affectionately called it.
Most people who read this have lived with streets that look like this. With all these...
by kernals
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on Sat Mar 02, 2019 at 08:29 PM PST
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The Citroen 2CV is an odd creature. A car shaped like a snail, whose doorhandles practically touch the pavement when cornering. And yet, this little car became an icon. Let’s learn more about it.
Note: I did touch on the 2CV briefly in my diary all...
by kernals
70 comments
on Wed Feb 27, 2019 at 08:34 AM PST
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Car generations usually don’t get nicknames, but somehow a marketing term wound up being the nickname of the midsized A-body automobiles made by GM between 1973 and 1977. These cars were launched into a buzzsaw of rapid changes in the auto industry....
by kernals
22 comments
on Sat Feb 23, 2019 at 08:18 PM PST
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This is the story of how convertibles nearly disappeared in the 1970s.
In the early days of the automobile, opentops were the norm. Cars generally had a crude folding roof or no roof at all.
But in the 20s, advances in steel...
by kernals
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on Fri Feb 22, 2019 at 12:11 PM PST
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Isn’t it weird how Police departments all seem to pick the same car? I was born in 1997, that meant that for most of my life, a police car was, with few exceptions, a Ford Crown Victoria. I saw them on the street and all over TV. The Crown Vic was...
by kernals
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on Thu Feb 21, 2019 at 07:05 AM PST
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Chrysler was not fond of keeping nameplates for long periods. Names like Fury, Satellite, Coronet, and even Dart or Charger seldom stuck around for more than 20 years. One exception was the car that served as Chrysler’s flagship for over half a...
by kernals
32 comments
on Wed Feb 20, 2019 at 09:36 AM PST
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The disappearance of station wagons has been discussed so much that I don’t need to restate it. But I thought I’d make a diary about arguably the most famous station wagon of them all.
1950-1951
Midway through the 1950 model year, Ford...
by kernals
30 comments
on Tue Feb 19, 2019 at 04:59 PM PST
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The Grand Prix was another one of those nameplates that was plastered on a bewildering array of cars, just like the Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar. Its story pretty well follows Pontiac as a whole, being born during their golden age and then dying...
by kernals
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on Mon Feb 18, 2019 at 08:44 PM PST
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From a rational standpoint, Jaguars are not very good cars. Anything from Germany will be much more reliable, more comfortable, and will depreciate far slower. But those cars are so cold and souless. Jaguars have personality and they exude a certain...
by kernals
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on Sat Feb 09, 2019 at 02:23 PM PST
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Ford forever struggled to differentiate the Mercury nameplate. But time and again they wound up selling lightly rebadged Fords with a little extra trim until their death in 2011. But there was one Mercury name that stood out: Cougar. The Cougar name...
by kernals
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on Sun Feb 03, 2019 at 03:00 PM PST
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You look at the car above, and you see a generic 1970s midsized automobile. A typical American behemoth with a giant exterior and a surprisingly small interior. But let me try something.
Now you know what it is. It’s a Ford Torino....
by kernals
12 comments
on Sat Feb 02, 2019 at 12:26 PM PST
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Pontiac was shut down 10 years ago. The brand that was once GM’s excitement division is now just ashes. But the fact that it lasted as long as it did is itself a miracle and is thanks in no small part to one car.
Pontiac has a unique history...
by kernals
28 comments
on Sat Feb 02, 2019 at 08:38 AM PST
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Remember Oldsmobile? If you’re young, you probably don’t. But if you’re older, you remember the days when they were everywhere. It was once one of America’s favorite brands before suddenly dying. And the greatest of them all, for 55 years, was the 98. ...
by kernals
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on Fri Feb 01, 2019 at 04:00 PM PST
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Through most of the 20th century, a Cadillac represented the pinnacle of automotive engineering. Here’s the chronology of Cadillac’s flagships going back to 1938.
1938-1941
I chose 1938 to start because I don’t want to go all the way back...
by kernals
19 comments
on Sun Feb 17, 2019 at 10:23 PM PST
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