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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As it happens, my parents bought a pair of brand-new Fiat 128s in 1972 (before gas prices went crazy), because they were the cheapest cars available at the time and they needed wheels in a hurry.