There was a feature in Mopar Action back in June 2016 on a 71 Cuda allegedly owned by Elvis. It was for sale but they issued an update that the Elvis title was "bogus". ... View more

That thing in there is not a ute. No way! ... View more

What is interesting is that they adapting a truck platform to make it more 'car-like', yet GM had a ute ready to go in Australia with virtually the same wheelbase (SSR 116 v ute 115.7). This was run off the Omega platform that Cadillac had used, it took the 5.7l motor and would have addressed a few of the issues around height, crashworthy etc. as the work had been done. Yes the hardpoints would have been fixed in a different location. It was set up to carry loads, but would have lost some with the roofless changes. I wonder if it was considered. ... View more

Not everyone likes colour, perhaps the main reason they don't produce them any more. People more concerned about resale than enjoying life. My father had to borrow a purple (Purr-pull was the name) Kingswood one day and hated it so much he parked at the other end of the carpark so people couldn't see us with the car. ... View more

As a copper mate of mine once said. If you never want to be pulled over drive a beige Camry ... View more

I agree that the Challenger and the Fiat 500 have been very successful reinterpretations of old classics. However for ever 500 there is are three like the Jaguar S type. Retro works in the cases you've highlighted because they are a niche. People aren't wandering into Dodge dealerships choosing between the R/T and an SUV. They are the halo car and can exist for a longer model cycle than regular cars. When you make your mainstream cars "retro" it leads you down a blind alley. How do you update it so that the car non-enthusiast neighbour knows that you've got the latest model? No-one is looking in their catalogues from 1978 and thinking Hmmm those big bumpers look good. And velour interiors are due for a comeback. In the 60's the S type was a bit of a stop-gap. So what comes after in the retro world XJ6? Didn't they do that? XJ40 said no-one ever. No, build the hero models and let them draw punters in, just how it was done in period. ... View more

What if GM built a rear wheel drive sedan of 203 inch length and a wheelbase of 118.5 inches? What if it was powered by either the 3.6 V6 or the LS3 V8? Well they did up until 2017 and it was available in the USA albeit with the 6.0 motor. The problem was that what was conceived as a full size luxury car was sold as a police car (shades of the Crown Vic). Then between GM management and the ruling Liberal National parties, they decided that such vehicles weren't what people needed. Still a good looking car. ... View more

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. WB Yeats ... View more

I too am blown away by the price. Unlike most though I respect the KIA transplant. The Stinger is a good car, great driveline but ugly as a hatful. Swapping a V6 for a V6 probably makes more sense given packaging, CoG etc. but it seems that it would have been more popular if it were a Dino V6 or an LS. Personally I think that it is a well executed car that address the main downfall of the DMC-12, lack of speed. ... View more

It seems that most comments are on the styling of the Viper. I think that misses the point of the article. Yes you can buy a car to enjoy and perhaps make money on it, but if you want investment grade returns, and that includes understanding that an investment in a car means the loss of potential earnings elsewhere such as the stock market, you have to target high end cars. Desirable, low mileage, documented and well maintained. Not everyone's cup of tea, but sound investment advice. ... View more

That came out of Australia nearly 20 years ago. Impressive builds one and all, but the Chev was road registered. https://www.whichcar.com.au/features/massive-attack-1955-chevrolet-sports-coupe ... View more

Perhaps if you view Cadillac through foreign eyes it appears as "only a Cadillac". There was a long time when Cadillac was the standard of the world, but by the 1970's almost every other country looked to M-B as the standard. The same applied to Rolls Royce btw. ... View more

When I read the Magneto concept yesterday I was interested and intrigued. This though appears to be a dead-end. It weighs 700 pounds more because you drag an engine around with you. Strange approach. ... View more

Of course Three's Company was the remake of Man about the House, but that is for even older viewers. So Mazda spent big on restoring a cool old piece solely to advertise an unrelated and unremarkable SUX. Finally a use for an SUX I can get behind. ... View more

In my view the world is broken into 2 groups, car people and consumers and there are way more of the latter. Consumers care less for 6 speed manual transmissions and more for 6 cup holders. I live opposite a school and there is 1 guy who has a cool car that he occasionally brings. The rest are the usual mix of wagons and SUXs. Most couldn't tell you which wheels were driven. To them the choice between EV and ICE is largely moot.   So what is a car company to do? You could take the Dodge route and build wacky Hemi SUVs, or switch to electric motors which are much cheaper and more reliable. Bean counters will beat engineers every time in that battle.   So Jack would you have us rage, rage against the dying of the light? The 76 Cadillac is illuminating. GM could have built the 77 convertible, it is only a question of engineering it to meet the safety standards. That would push up the price (and probably the weight) and I'll wager that the market wasn't there for it. So flog it as the last of the breed and move on.    But force them, through articles and purchasing to build some interesting EVs, not just SUXs with an electric motor where an engine once sat. ... View more

Spot on Jack. EVs were an opportunity for manufacturers to change how we saw car design. Yet they squibbed it. It would be cool if they were sleepers, but alas. Imagine if the Citroen DS was the first EV? That still looks like the future, and apart from 4 wheels barely remotely like any other car before it. Even with the carry-over motor it sold very well. It's funny because in cellphone design everyone seems to want the latest and greatest, yet in car design it's fake chrome and faux vents. ... View more

Most people here are car people. but probably 70% of vehicle owners are not. They have unwashed cars, don't care about them and see it as an appliance. You can see what they want here, a tall riding, zippy car. For them the inconvenience of plugging it on to charge is a hassle, but when you've standing in a wet puddle that is a mixture of diesel and water at a filling station, that is an annoyance. ... View more

Just leave utes to the Australians please. Ford for 1996 ( and this basic design came from 1972). https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boostedfalcon.net%2Ffalconfacts%2Ffalcon%2Fxgfalcon.html&psig=AOvVaw22UJ80EphwC9bLHsjvANwU&ust=1614035572253000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCKjepp-N_O4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAT ... View more

Radio Birdman are awesome. I was going to offer Wide open road by Th Triffids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5akOOlGTI But for obscure I can't go past TISM and their ode to a road safety ad Greg! the stop sign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwI2NrVYqIE ... View more

As an enthusiast Jack you probably care more about what's under the hood than 97% of motorists. The proof is the proliferation of Camry's. Those owners don't particularly care what the motor is doing, just so long as it does it and the light come on when you open the door. Sure range anxiety is a thing, but it is generally overblown in comparison to the actual miles driven per day. However there are other advantages such as connecting your car to the grid and using it as a battery which provides grid stability and drives down the cost of electricity (you would also get $ for selling at peak periods). Another for most people is step off. As ev's have 100% torque from the start, no waiting for the peak rev point. So they get the zippiness that people love. Companies are still going to want halo cars, Corvettes, Mustangs etc. and the challenge for them is to design in some point of difference. With a lower front profile due to the lack of a tall engine it changes the packaging and the batteries offer an improvement in the CoG in all vehicles, which would be a massive bonus for the rollover keen SUVs. Now I don't own an EV and there are some downsides such as how clean the electricity is, but it isn't all doom and gloom. Plus there will be more gas left for the old cars as we may never run out. ... View more

Two things stop people getting into a hobby, in this case cars. Firstly is cost. This can be anything from the cost of entry to a show (make it free, even if only for kids) to the actual car. The second is the anti-social element. Coal rolling is funny once, but when you think about it if Prius owners went round throwing crap, literally, at pick-ups would is be funny? Not when you enjoying a hobby really interferes with someone else's hobby. There is absolutely no way faster to get a hobby banned than that. Now yesterday I gave a nod to a young guy in an E34 540i. Very nice condition, not my cup o'tea but he gave a wave back and we both felt a little better about the day. ... View more

I think you would struggle to go past Rod Hadfield's Attack. a 27 litre Merlin V12 supercharged into (well more of the car around the motor) a 1955 Chev. https://www.whichcar.com.au/features/massive-attack-1955-chevrolet-sports-coupe ... View more

Without wanting to inflame the necessity for a pick-up debate (I own a 52 y.o. ute for disclosure) what I miss is the full sized sedan. The choice now seems to be between a high riding 4 door pick-up or a high riding SUV. Currently I am running the equivalent of the Chev SS sedan (but with the V6) and I'm looking at a newer version of the same car. It seems that we have corralled ourselves into a choice between pick-up, SUV, or small/medium hatchback and chosen to fight based on the limited choice.   ... View more

The Z4 has overtones of the Pinnifarina Alfa GTV Spider for mine. IMO the issue isn't the continuation of the A pillar line, but from the base of that line the door aperture doesn't match anything else. Down, across and curving upwards. It doesn't follow anything else on the car. If you cover that line with a piece of paper you can see how the car is improved by not seeing that line and the associated curves. The A pillar line is distinctive, perhaps even evocative of a propeller? At a pinch it could be a propeller aircraft banking...okay maybe that is a stretch. I think that Bangle could have got away with the propeller line but not with that unresolved lower part of the car.   I had a 69 Charger in a very similar colour to that Vette. The tailstripes made that a different looking car as well. ... View more

Slightly off topic, but my sporting club had a disasterous fire. The most difficult part was reconstructing the records as the honour boards were lost that were up to 130 years old. A few photos stored separately to the building would have saved a lot of time chasing old newspapers etc. It may be worth a digital copy of the historical records of your vehicles. ... View more

What about the shovelnose T40 Toyota Corona ute? It sat under the Stout in the Toyota line-up (another one for the list?). ... View more

Holden ceased making RWD and indeed any cars in 2017. They did import some largely unloved vehicles from any number of places, but the Opel built sedan was only a stopgap given GM sold Opel at the same time.. $160,000AUD or about $114,000USD today. An R spec Mustang, built factory RHD with the supercharged 5.0 is $99,000 so you must really want to have a bowtie to shell out sixty thousand extra. How did they land with that name? GM is a bit on the nose what with the killing of Holden, so why not Chevrolet Performance Vehicles, or simply Chevrolet Muscle. Unless there is another performance car that they may import and no Cadillac won't be on the list. ... View more