Rare Rides: The 1970 Monteverdi High Speed 375/4 – Mountains of Swiss Luxury
In the mountainous country of Switzerland, there once existed a company called Monteverdi. And for a few decades, it built luxurious and sporty coupes and sedans for a very wealthy clientele. Today’s...
View ArticleGenesis Still Two Years Away From Adding Much-needed Utility Vehicles to...
Despite producing comprehensively equipped and comfortable sedans with a nearly unbeatable price and warranty, Genesis Motors is in trouble. Sedans aren’t selling like they used to and the company...
View ArticleIt’s a Car Bloodbath Out There, but a Few Large Sedans Can Claim They’re...
As we told you yesterday, passenger car market share dropped to 30.6 percent in the month of August as a tide of crossovers, trucks, and SUVs continued swamping the automotive landscape. Few automakers...
View ArticleAnother Sedan ‘Savior’? The Optimism Pouring From Nissan’s U.S. Chairman Is...
In the lead-up to the current-generation Toyota Camry’s launch in late summer, 2017, company brass predicted this model would change things. This Camry, in addition to the new-for-2018 Honda Accord and...
View ArticleWaiting to Exhale: VW Delays U.S. Arteon Launch Over Emissions Certification
Volkswagen Group has delayed the U.S. launch of its flagship Arteon sedan for a few more months as it waits for that all-important emissions certification. Apparently, Europe’s switch to the updated...
View ArticleRare Rides: A Large, Luxurious Citroën CX From 1987 (Part I)
Huge amounts of interior space, a silky smooth ride, and quirky features inside and out. These are the qualities one expects from a large Citroën, and all are present and accounted for in today’s Rare...
View ArticleRare Rides: A Large, Luxurious Citroën CX From 1987 (Part II)
In Part I of the Citroën CX saga, we learned how the big sedan replaced the outgoing and legendary DS. Now, let’s find out just how difficult life was for the last genuine large Citroën. At the time of...
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: The $40,000 Luxury Sedan Answer for 2018
Perusing the responses to Matthew Guy’s QOTD post about the ideal $40,000 vehicle, three sedans kept surfacing in the comments. All three were compact, all of them had engines of identical...
View ArticleQOTD: The Most Boring Car of Them All?
Ah yes, boring cars. They’re everywhere. And really they’ve been everywhere in the past. It’s just the nature of the Internet Car Enthusiast to paint a rosier picture than that of reality. His or her...
View ArticleRare Rides: Formal Luxury Via the 1992 Toyota Crown
Comfort, spaciousness, luxury, formality. All of these things mattered to the early-1990s Japanese domestic sedan buyer. Today we take a look at a sedan that possesses all of these qualities in spades....
View ArticleQOTD: The Most Exciting Car of Them All?
Right around this time last week, we featured a QOTD about the most boring car you’d ever driven. Searching through your memories for a boring car was apparently very easy, as nearly 200 comments...
View Article2019 Acura ILX First Drive Review – Third Time Lucky?
Acura’s entry level ILX is redesigned for the 2019 model year. With new styling and additional technology on board, it fulfills the brand’s desire to display a cohesive design language across all...
View ArticleIn a Green Future, VW Boss Sees Hope for Sedans
Through the end of October, Volkswagen of America’s efforts to gain a 5 percent share of the country’s new vehicle market (by 2020) continued apace, with sales up 5 percent over the same period a year...
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: A Rear-drive C-body Showdown in 1980
A few months ago we selected a General Motors C-body from the three on offer in the mid-1990s, right at the end of the front-drive platform’s lifespan. Today’s trio is a variation on that theme, as...
View ArticleRare Rides: A 1994 E500 – the Porsche Sedan by Mercedes-Benz
What do you get when you combine the sporty personality of Porsche with all the comfort and luxury of a Mercedes-Benz sedan? The answer is this E500. In the late 1980s Mercedes found itself riding a...
View ArticleSales of Culled GM Sedans Tell the Story
We’d love to create our own reality, but it’s not achievable. Not while other people exist. I’d prefer a vehicular landscape populated with vinyl-topped sedans and formal personal luxury coupes and...
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: 2018 Midsize Luxury Cars Nobody Buys
The Buy/Drive/Burn series has ventured into unpopular cars territory a time or two before. Most recently we discussed three large American sedans that are most unpopular indeed (two of those three are...
View ArticleQOTD: Change Is a Bad Thing?
On the Junkyard Find post at the start of this week, conversation turned to vehicle models which resisted change from the designer’s pen (or ruler) and the engineer’s… tools. Today we talk about the...
View ArticleRare Rides: An Absolutely Beautiful Peugeot 504 From 1975
Rare Rides has featured a couple of Peugeot vehicles before, like this 106 from Canada or this 405 from The America. But both of those were sporty cars from the Nineties. Today we have a look at a...
View ArticleRare Rides: The Ford Versailles Ghia From 1993 – a Quantum Experiment
The recent news of the potential alliance brewing between Ford and Volkswagen seems like a novel idea. But what if I told you it was already tried long ago? Come along, we’re taking a trip to...
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: Large Luxury Sedans of Compromise in 2018
Three large and luxurious sedans compete for around $70,000 of your hard-earned and imaginary Internet dollars. Surely this is a segment where compromise will not be a concern, right? Nope. Today we...
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: Mediocrity Personified in Sedans of 1996
You’ve seen all of today’s contenders before on the roads, likely more times than you can count. Forgettable because of how middling they were, hundreds of thousands were sold. Which one would you...
View ArticleQOTD: Coachbuilding for the Relatively Regular Customer?
Plenty of digital ink and hurt fingers and bums occurred over the past few days, after Lincoln announced its limited run of Coach Door Edition Continentals (don’t call the doors by their common lexicon...
View ArticleWhy American Muscle Might Outlive the Standard American Sedan
Domestic sedans are currently being walked up to the edge of a mass grave. Beneath them rests their two-doored brethren and the first wave of four-doors previously executed by the Big Three. Ford has...
View ArticleQOTD: Sailing Past Sinking Ships in 2019?
Last Wednesday, our Question of the Day asked which automaker you wished well in 2019. Today we take a different approach, and ask which automaker doesn’t need any of your positive internet thoughts...
View ArticleRare Rides: Take Note of a 1960 Opel Rekord
Long before Opel became a donor for the badge-engineered Cadillac Catera and Buick Regal, the then GM-owned company shifted its own cars on North American soil. Today’s Rare Ride is a very early...
View Article2019 Mazda 3 First Drive – A Cohesive Compact?
We travelled to the small and traffic-free city of Los Angeles last week to check out the newly revamped 2019 Mazda 3, the first product launched under the automaker’s equally new premium philosophy....
View ArticleRare Rides: The Sports-Luxury 1966 Jaguar S-Type 3.8
Long before the Ford-based retro throwback began showing up on dealer lots, Jaguar produced a contemporary and modern sedan called the S-type. Let’s check out a brown example, this one hailing from...
View ArticleQOTD: Out of Touch, or Out of Time?
On Monday, Matthew Guy asked all of you to nominate vehicles that were ahead of their time. Those rare occasions where vehicles anticipated the desires of consumers, even before said desires were fully...
View ArticleRare Rides: A 1979 Alfa Romeo Alfetta, Styled Like a BMW
Which sedan has the looks of a BMW, but without all the tedious reliability that comes standard from the Bavarian offering? Why, it’s the Alfa Romeo Alfetta, from 1979. Launched in 1972, Alfetta was...
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: 2014 Midsize Luxury Sedan Shootout
Today’s edition of Buy/Drive/Burn was generated by a discussion over at the TTAC Slack room. The conversation turned to sporty midsize luxury sedans from 2014, and one staff member regarded one of...
View Article2020 Subaru Legacy Debuts In Chicago With Turbocharged Engine
The 2020 Subaru Legacy made its debut at the 2019 Chicago Auto Show on Thursday. While most casual observers will probably assume the model has undergone a mild visual refresh, what’s actually on...
View ArticleWhere Your Author Steps Away From Infiniti
Some heavy thoughts are weighing on my mind lately; some might even call them urges. And those urges are telling me to sell a blue Datsun sedan and get something else. Should I give in? The M35x...
View ArticleQOTD: Found Yourself Surprisingly Disappointed?
In last week’s QOTD, we asked you to share the vehicles that pleasantly surprised you after spending some time behind the wheel. Whether your expectations were high or low to start, it’s always nice to...
View Article2019 Lexus IS 300 F Sport Black Line Special Edition
With sales of the IS 300 leaving something to be desired these past few years, Lexus has bestowed the obligatory black-themed appearance package on the compact sedan for the 2019 model year. Available...
View ArticleWhere Your Author Eliminates a Couple of Coupes
In an introductory post last week, I detailed a couple of cars I was considering as a replacement to my decade-old Infiniti M. The comments (some filled with unusual anger) prodded me to add another...
View ArticleRare Rides: A Very Brown Talbot Tagora From 1982
Today’s Rare Ride is the European luxury sedan you’ve never heard of. Plush, brown, and boxy, it’s the Talbot Tagora from 1982. The Tagora was born at a difficult time for its owner, Chrysler Europe....
View ArticleQOTD: What’s the Most Overpriced Non-luxury Vehicle in 2019?
Though much of the luxury vehicle segment is immune from the depressingly practical concept of “good value,” the less aspirational vehicles of the proletariat are not so fortunate. Today we discuss...
View ArticleQOTD: Most Overpriced Non-luxury Vehicle of the 2000s?
I hinted at today’s QOTD last week, when the original post for this line of questioning got the ball rolling. Last time we asked which non-luxury vehicles of 2019 were the most overpriced. The...
View ArticleQOTD: Most Overpriced Non-luxury Vehicle of the 1990s?
For the past couple of weeks, Wednesday’s QOTD posts have asked a simple question: What was the most overpriced non-luxury vehicle of a given period of time? The first inquiry dealt only with 2019...
View ArticleCadillac’s Second Sedan Shoe Drops This Year, and It Has a Name
Not giving up on a segment many Americans have already crossed off their shopping list, Cadillac debuted its strategically placed CT5 sedan this week, sparking no shortage of debate as to its aesthetic...
View ArticleBMW Confirms 2 Series Gran Coupe For 2020
Having already provided Gran Coupe (fastback sedan) versions of the 4 and 6 Series, BMW is planning on doing the same for the “entry level” 2 Series. However, it doesn’t appear as though it will be...
View ArticleWhere Your Author Sells an Infiniti Quickly, Then Starts a Search
Recently, I’ve shared musings about selling my old Infiniti, as well as the coupe or sedan options pegged to replace it. You readers had your helpful hearts in the right place, with funny suggestions...
View ArticleHot Take: You Probably Wouldn’t Have Wanted the New Ford Taurus, Anyway
Despite having risen from the grave in 2007, following its brief stint as the Ford Five Hundred, the Taurus has been reburied. The last example rolled out of Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant a few weeks...
View Article2019 Mazda 3 AWD First Drive Review – Holding It All Down
Earlier this year, Mazda showed off its all-new 3 sedan in Los Angeles. The new compact’s intent is to impress a revised, upscale image on the brand. While the 3 delivered in quality, overall...
View ArticleReport: Mazda 6 Drops Its Manual Transmission for 2019
Changes come to Mazda’s midsize 6 sedan slowly, with mild — some might say imperceptible — styling refreshes and content changes usually occurring halfway through the model year. Last year saw a big...
View ArticleQOTD: Your Least Favorite Front-drive Nineties Ride?
Last week, Steph penned a QOTD where he let commenters loose on front-drive American cars made between 1980 and 2010. The ask was to pick a favorite from the wide selection; one you’d buy today as new....
View ArticleWhere Your Author Makes a Quick Purchase (and a Long Trip)
What happens when specific used car requirements combine with some old fashioned encouragement from TTAC staff? A one-way road trip spanning five states, that’s what. The car and the price seemed...
View ArticleHereditary: 2020 Nissan Versa Is Unmistakably Nissan, Less Entry-level Than...
Regardless of which angle it’s viewed from, Nissan’s next-generation Versa stands atop a box and screams “Nissan!” for all to hear. From the side, you’d be forgiven for thinking someone shrunk the...
View ArticleQOTD: Your Least Favorite Rear-drive Nineties Ride?
Last week, we accepted suggestions for our readers’ least favorite front-drive cars from the 1990s, but commenter Art Vandelay (an importer/exporter) wanted more. We’re back a week later to repeat the...
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