By the time General Motors launched its Corvette Sting Ray in North America it was okay with the concept of interplanetary travel and probably just as well.
This car with its knife-edged ‘fenders’,
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SPRITE / MG Midget 1962-71: Market Watch
Having turned the sports-car market on its ear with the original Austin-Healey Sprite, BMC in 1961 turned its impudent orphan into a three-quarter size replica of the unreleased MGB.
In profile the two
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Mazda MX-5 NA 1989-98: Market Watch
Just four years from now the earliest Mazda MX-5s will be 40 years old, with many of them standing a good chance of still being around for the party.
Older sports cars, for reasons best known to people
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Five class acts of Bathurst 1967-92: Market Watch
It is often said, and with a fair degree of truth, that nobody remembers who finishes second at Bathurst. To that we might add the lack of recognition for class winners, even though these contests were
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Market Watch: Nissan Skyline GTS-T R32-R34
Following the demise of locally made R31 models, Australia could and should have seen an R32 version of the Skyline GTS, but Nissan went instead with the front-wheel drive Maxima.
In Japan, the Skyline
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Market Watch: HSV Clubsport VN-VT
HSV’s Clubsport began life as a test exercise intended to keep sales ticking over within a network of HSV dealers who during 1990 were struggling against inflation and high interest rates.
Early cars
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Market Watch: Firebird / Trans Am 1967-81
The year 1967 was memorable in American automotive history with the release of three new rivals for the record-setting Ford Mustang. From Chevrolet came the Camaro, Ford fielded the Mercury Cougar and
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Market Watch: Alfa Romeo Spider 1966-94
The shape introduced at Turin’s 1966 Motor Show survived 28 turbulent years with just one significant restyle.
Appropriately for a twin-cam, two-seat car it was called ‘Duetto’, and the man who
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Market Watch: Five off-road capable classics
One barrier to owning a collector vehicle is the amount of use it may get in order to justify the amount of money sitting in a darkened garage.
Plenty of Australian families already have 4WD dual cabs
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MARKET WATCH: Five affordable Euro sedans
Back in the decades before Sport Utility Vehicles ruled our world it was likely that the shape chosen by new-car buyers would be a four-door sedan.
More than 35 years have passed since most of these cars
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