The US market Ford Contour was marketed by the folks at Ford’s PR department as a re-purposed European Ford Mondeo, but in truth it only shared a few pieces including the windshield, windows, side mirrors and door handles. Everything else was standard parts bin junk left over from the Tempo or borrowed from the Taurus […]
DT continues our countdown of 12 econoboxes that are inspired by this vintage Car and Driver comparison article. The twelve sub $10k (when new in 1992 and equipped with air conditioning, a rear defroster, and an AM/FM radio) cars were ranked by an assortment of college kids, and this next one is number 6. Today’s […]
A vintage Car and Driver article from July 1992 came across my desk the other day that made my smile ear-to-ear. It is this comparison article on 12 compact economy cars that pitted twelve sub $10k crapboxes against each other with an assortment of college kids deciding which car they would be caught dead in. […]
This next car comes as a tip from PA Cyclist who writes: Just over 3k miles per year if my math is right. This generation of Focus won European car of the year in 1999 and North American car of the year in 2000. Also, the ZX3 was on Car and Driver’s 10 best list […]
A few years ago I would have ranted that this is an INSANE amount of money to pay for a used Mustang, but with the average sales price of a new car exceeding $45k and the average listing price of a used car pushing $25k, I can’t say that this next car is that expensive. […]
I can tell you that I’ve learned one or two things from the years running this website, and one of those things I picked up is the ability to know a good deal when I see one. A camper based on a vintage Ford F-350 that has a all the charm of a vintage truck […]
This next car comes as a tip from Matt V who writes: Today’s Edition of “I never knew they came in a Coupe”…aka Tempo Superleggera. Yes, the Tempo did indeed come in a shhhhporty two-door version and a manual gearbox. It looks like a 3/5th scale ninth generation Thunderbird. Find this 1989 Ford Tempo Coupe […]
If you ask the average person in New Mexico what a “California Special” package might add to a Mustang, they would probably suggest that the package adds a homeless man in the rear seat and charges you an extra 50 cents a gallon at the pump for the no reason, but that isn’t quite true. […]
The Bronco II was released by Ford in 1984 as a “compact” version of their large Bronco SUV. But unlike modern compact SUVs that use cars for their basis, the Bronco II used the Ford Ranger pickup for its platform. This means that the little Bronco II could scale mountains and hills like a goat. […]
Marauders are commonly mistaken for a pimped-out Crown Vic, but it was really a factory modified version of the Mercury Grand Marquis, which was badge engineered version of Ford’s Crown Victoria. The Marauder was a Grand Marquis with blacked out the chrome, 5-spoke 18-inch wheels and a 4.6 liter Ford Modular V8 the breaths through […]