Flipboard 2025 Awesome Cars

Once mocked as lemons, these unpopular 1970s cars are now collector favorites. Remember the AMC Pacer, Ford Pinto, Chevrolet Vega, and more?

Some of the world's most valuable collector cars spent decades looking like ordinary junk. They sat in dusty barns, deteriorated in forgotten garages, and sometimes came dangerously close to being discarded. Today, collectors pay extraordinary sums for certain surviving examples, especially when their originality and history can be documented. These remarkable discoveries show how an unwanted old car can become an automotive treasure.

They filled driveways, crowded supermarket parking lots, and appeared in commercials between your favorite TV shows. Some sold so well that imagining American roads without them would’ve sounded ridiculous. Now mention their names to a younger driver and you might get the same reaction as someone explaining an eight-track player.

Discover outrageous classic car colors from the 1960s and 1970s, including Panther Pink, Plum Crazy, and Sublime Green, that made American muscle cars unforgettable and still turn heads today.

Discover the bestselling cars in America from 1970 to 1998. See which Ford, Chevrolet, Honda, Toyota, and Oldsmobile models topped sales charts the year you graduated from high school.

Concept cars are usually built to make people stare, but the best ones do more than that. Here are a few that came surprisingly close to changing what ended up in American driveways.

These used cars once looked like they were just affordable alternatives, but their engines, handling, rarity, or sheer personality slowly turned them into enthusiast favorites.

Small hatchbacks have long occupied a strange position in the American market. Models that make perfect sense on crowded European streets or in densely populated Asian cities have often struggled against larger sedans, pickups, and SUVs in the United States. The contrast has become especially noticeable as American manufacturers have abandoned numerous subcompacts while small cars continue attracting millions of buyers elsewhere.