Pontiac’s decision to build a small, inexpensive, mid engined sports car was not revolutionary, Fiat and Lancia had already marketed similar cars. But two things about the Fiero were unusual, it was commissioned as much as an economical commuting car as a sportster, and the vehicle was constructed in a radically new way. Under the [...]

The original Fire Bird had appeared in 1967, based on Chevrolet Camaro’s ‘F’ body, but interest in the car didn’t really begin to pick up the restyled 1970 versions were introduced. There were muscular looking cars, with fat arches curvy hips and huge implied machismo in their stance. Only one variant had the power to [...]

The 205, which was launched in 1983, became the definite small Euro hatchback over a 15 year production run that saw over 5 million examples sold. It is widely held that Peugeot management avoided the tricky business of replacing the 205 by simply avoiding the issue. Instead, it launched the tiny 106 City car in [...]

When the 205 was launched in 1983, it caught everyone’s attention as the very model of a modern supermini. It was compact, but decently roomy inside, and had a good sized boot. Sensible in practical areas, the 205 was also exceptionally pretty. Over the car’s lengthy production run, more than 14 years, as the new [...]

Before World War II, Packard had been one of Americans finest cars; fit to be compared with the likes of Rolls Royce on the World stage. They intended to keep that reputation after hostilities by building quality cars that were impervious to the yearly changes wrought by the big manufactures. As an independent Package couldn’t [...]

Nissan had built a considerable reputation with GT-R version of its Skyline coupe. The model became a world wide icon with the launch of the R32 version in 1989. It came to represent a Japanese car industry at its most intelligent and innovative. The 1993 Skyline and 1999 R34 Skylines built on this, but used [...]

Like its contemporaries, the Ford Escort Cosworth and Lancia Delta Integrale, the Sunny GTi-R was a road going version of a serious rally machine. Despite this it is important to remember it was essentially based on a humble family car. Given the Japanese love of high technology, It was also a very reasonable commercial bet [...]

When it was launched it was called the World’s most advance car by the Press. Rumors have it that the Skyline’s engineers had been told to out Porsche Porsche. The car was launched in Europe at the extremely challenging Nurburgring circuit in Germany. It was soon clear that Nissan had succeeded in producing the world’s [...]

By the time the Issigonis designed Morris 1100/ 1300 was replaced by the Allegro in the 1973, over two million examples had been sold. In fact, it was consistently Britain’s best selling car, beating even the ever popular Ford Cortina to the top spot throughout the 1960s. Following the acclaim the Mini received, the British [...]

The oceans nibbles at established cliffs, but the landslide can be a long time coming, was low lan Fraser (then editor of CAR magazine) summed up his report on the Ital Design Megagamma. It was an amazingly prescient comment, as the Megagamma could probably be regarded as the original people carrier. It wasn’t until the [...]