It used to be Cadillacs were the flashy desirable cars for any age group that wanted to show off their success. Then by the 1970s it became an old person’s car. Then the 80s came with all those diminutive FWD shit boxes with all those shotty engines and Cadillac was done for. They were no longer a style leader nor an…

There was nothing like the frequent road trips in the big back seat of the 72 & 73 Sedan de Villes both sets of my grandparents had.

It was more fun back when car model names were the trim package names like Ford Custom, Galaxie and LTD or Chevrolet Biscayne, Bel Air, Impala & Caprice.

They should save Tourette for an inevitable Corvette based crossover...

Tourettes

I’m not confused but others may be. I’ve studied automotive history since I was a kid in the early 1970s and I know all of this stuff.

The only thing “luxurious” about that Buick Skylark was the woodgrain dash and crushed velour seats. It was after all a compact Buick based on the same recall prone platform as the Chevy Citation and was in a size class larger than the J-cars Chevy Cavalier and Buick.Skyhawk sold at a higher price point. So you are…

Which is clearly not the priority of a manufacturer designing affordable space and fuel efficent vehicles mass marketed to the average consumer. You need a different vehicle that is purpose built for your priorities.

Seriously the RWD predecessors were not sports cars. They were cramped limited utility economy cars sold with only two doors and a giant transmission tunnel that encroached on interior room. That is what the domestics were making while all the import markets were making space efficient vehicles in FWD and in four…

The J-cars seem pretty meh now but when they were new they were a major step forward compared to the H-cars they replaced. The H-cars were the Vega, Astré, Monza, Sunbird, Starfire and Skyhawk. Those H-cars were RWD and came in two doors only in an assigned assortment of notchback coupes, hatchbacks and wagons. All US…

My Cobra II had a V8 and so did a yellow Mustang II notchback a friend of mine had. For basic V8 performance same as any malaise era car weighing twice as much they did okay with their lighweight bodies but they only enjoyed their potential heavily modified.

Ford did not market the Thunderbird as a sports car and customers did not demand for it to be enlarged with rear seating.

If you could read you would see that I said the Maverick is on the same platform as the Mustang (not Mustang II) which were both based on the Falcon platform. Mustang II is only related to the Pinto by shared drivetrain and a few suspension componants. Mustang IIs had their own unique unibody with an isolated front…

Fucking hideous! If it had value it went into the negative with that look!

Mom had a pretty good 1974 Mustang II v6, then I got a 1976 Cobra II V8 for my first car.

It was indeed on the same Falcon platform as the Mustang.

1980 Dodge Diplomat 4-door

Also the Cadillac Allanté and Buick Reatta were not sports cars. They were Two Seat Personal Luxury Roadsters, the same as the original Thunderbird.

My 91 Probe has diming courtesy lamps...

Here’s a 1977 Camaro Rally Sport that everyone can beat off to... Don’t pay attention to the Z/28 in the upper right corner...