If you thought SUVs based on regular cars were a new thing, then pack your bags as we’re heading to France in the late 1970s. The car needed to be relatively inexpensive to bring to market, and offer ...

Lou is a freelance journalist and content writer with a focus on the automotive world. After graduating from Coventry University (Automotive Journalism MA) in 2020, she worked in automotive e-commerce ...

A combination of tough, off-road looks yet without four-wheel drive predated the current trend for 'soft-roaders' by almost 50 years Dr. Andrew Roberts is a cinema and motoring historian whose writing ...

Crossovers. Consumers want them and automakers are racing to provide them, even at the expense of traditional sedans. It's a dramatic market shift that began in earnest almost 30 years ago when the ...

The Matra-Simca Rancho was a crossover that appeared in 1977, decades before anyone had thought up the term. Back then, it was known as a “lifestyle” vehicle, and in many ways, it set the template for ...

On the eve of Land Rover promising to crack down on dodgy Chinese rip-offs (specifically the gold nuggets that come out of unfortunately-named ‘Land Wind’) we remember the dodgy French Discovery ...

French automakers of the 1980s had no shortage of cars described as "quirky" in various reviews of the time, and you'd have to go through a long list of the usual suspects from Peugeot, Renault, ...

Lord knows I've been tempted to buy a project car from eBay Motors a time or two, but never have I been so inclined to hit that little "Buy It Now" button than I have with this: a beautiful 1980 ...