Then 2mins after Bruce, I saw a Simca 1100, my parent's first car ; I remember loving the glorious sound of its engine (probably faulty exhaust in retrospect) and deeply hearting that car. Ours was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many carmakers claim that one of its different models was the first crossover, but as far as I'm concerned that's like being the first locust in the plague. Curbside Classics says the Matra Rancho was ...

If you’re a child of the 1980s, chances are you played with a Matra-Simca Rancho – later known as the Talbot-Matra Rancho – without ever really knowing what it was. The Rancho certainly looked like an ...