That's a Pontiac Aztek!

It’s like the angry monster looks of 1959 automobiles came back and won’t go away!

Canada is American. It is on the content of North America along with Mexico. They are just not in the United Stated of America.

We go through this every time an article is written about Corolla hatchbacks. The Toyota Corolla Matrix is indeed a Corolla and was marketed as a 5-door hatchback.

“That future features no sedans, except for the Mustang...”

Because they were primarily Nissan Maximas in JDM and other non-North American markets and rebadged to be Infinitis for North America, not the other way around. Nissan was just selling regular Nissans as an Infiniti branded models as a state of mind for North American snobs.

I always laughed at the pretentious people who thought they bought an Isuzu “Ro-day-oh” instead of a “Ro-dee-oh”.

Kinda like how some of the Japanese luxury marques rebadged regular Honda, Nissan and Toyota models and offered JDM models to fill out their products lines. 

I’ll bet you all didn’t know that this Denali face was first passed up by Cadillac so it was given to GMC to market instead then Cadillac changed their mind when the Lincoln Navigator came into play.

The interior uses the factory Chrysler pieces with modified and custom bits here and there. Notably the Chrysler standard gauge cluster is replaced by a modified instrument cluster bezel which houses standardized aftermarket gauges.

There is nearly the same amount of difference as a Aspen/Volare has to a Diplomat/LeBaron/Fifth Avenue/Gran Fury/Caravelle. It's all differently shaped sheetmetal ahead of the front doors and behind the rear doors. I'd like to see the interior..  

It's the same section of the car that was carried over to make them Dodge Diplomats, Chrysler Le Barons, Chrysler Fifth Avenues, Plymouth Grand Furys and Canadian Plymouth Caravelles.

I can’t believe they actually took the entire body mid-section of a Volare, added new front and rear end clips and made it look this good.

Everyone expects stuff from 45 years ago to be as good as new vehicles are now but there was a lot of evolution that had to take place for us to have things as good as they are now 

I liked watching Farrah Fawett and her Cobra II on Charlie’s Angels. I decided that was going to be the first car I bought. I found one for $1700 at a Buick dealer used lot in 1980. It had high mileage, rips in the seats, a cracked dash pad and a few bumps and bruises. This is what I mean about a car only 4 years old…

Cars in general only lasted a few years on average. A 5 year old car looked like what a 15 year old modern car looks like nowdays. Virtually everything built wallowed and flopped around on it’s suspension. And the number of steering wheel turns lock to lock was high. You had to wait for the engines to warm up so they…

I can tell you first hand. My step-mother bought a 1984 Thunderbird V8 with the TRX metric tire and wheel package. She ended up replacing the wheels and tires with American Racing sawblade aluminum wheels and conventional sized tires. She kept the original TRX wheels and the tires that were still on them. I aquired…

The Fox platform 3rd generation Mustang debuted in fall 1978 for the 1979 model year carrying over all of the engine choices from the Mustang II. The Mustang GT with the increased performance 5.0 HO engine debuted for the 1982 model year.

I got a 1976 Cobra II V8 used in 1980. 

The 1971-73 Mustang got fat and ugly, and sales were very poor. I don’t even have to mention that the performance was greatly reduced due to emissions regulations and high insurance rates. Meanwhile, cars like the Datsun 240Z, Toyota Celica and the Ford Capri imported by Lincoln-Mercury found sales success in the…