Quinn Mercer articles

The truck’s advertised towing number looked enormous, so the trailer seemed like an easy match. Then passengers, hitch weight, and bed cargo started eating into the payload rating before the trailer was even connected.

The Malaise Era gets treated like one long automotive apology, but that’s not totally fair. Buried inside all that awkwardness were cars with real style, smart ideas, and genuine personality.

The 1970s gave us some seriously stylish luxury cars. Back then, many of these looked expensive, exotic, or just out of reach. Today, a surprising number of them can still be bought for the price of a modern family crossover.

Rediscover forgotten coupes from the 1980s, including the Ford EXP, Dodge Mirada, Subaru XT, Renault Fuego, and other rare cars that once filled American roads before quietly disappearing from memory.

Modern trucks are bigger than ever. That’s great if you need huge towing numbers or a rolling family room, but it also makes old compact pickups look weirdly brilliant in hindsight.

The early 2000s had a very specific automotive flavor. Some of these cars were genuinely popular, while others just felt unavoidable for a few years. Then, almost suddenly, they were gone.

Not every great sports sedan gets remembered like an M5 or AMG. Some were too subtle, too expensive, too weird, or just unlucky enough to arrive when buyers were already drifting toward SUVs.

Relive the 1990s through legendary sports cars including the McLaren F1, Lamborghini Diablo, Ferrari F40, Toyota Supra, Dodge Viper, and other unforgettable bedroom-wall dream machines that defined a generation worldwide.

The 1980s were full of cars trying very hard to look classy, futuristic, European, or just more expensive than they really were. But while they were meant to impress the neighbors, decades later, a lot of them are remembered for much stranger reasons.