Flipboard 2025 Awesome Cars

Once-cheap cars from the 2000s are becoming surprisingly difficult to find in clean, original condition. From Honda Civic Sis and Subaru WRXs to Pontiac GTOs and Ford Focus SVTs, these affordable favorites are quietly disappearing.

Test your SUV knowledge with 15 forgotten models identified only by rear-end clues, from quirky spare-tire designs to distinctive taillights, badges, hatches, and tailgates that true gearheads may remember instantly.

Think you know 1980s cars? Test your memory by identifying 15 forgotten models from their distinctive headlights and front-end styling before each car is revealed.

Some cars become valuable because they were beautiful. Others become valuable because they were fast. This Plymouth had both covered, yet that still doesn’t explain why someone paid $3.3 million for it. The real answer begins with a production number almost too small to believe.

The 1990s were a very specific moment for family cars. Minivans were practical, wagons were fading, and suddenly a lot of parents wanted something that made school drop-off feel a little more exciting.

From pop-up headlights and automatic seatbelts to cassette decks, carburetors, giant bumpers, and talking dashboards, explore classic 1980s car features that disappeared—and the surprisingly good reasons automakers left them behind.

Explore forgotten American luxury coupes from the 1950s through the 1980s, from Studebaker Hawks and AMC oddities to Cordobas, Miradas, and more.

The 1990s produced plenty of sports cars that announced themselves with spoilers, scoops, and bright paint. But some of the decade’s most interesting performance machines looked like ordinary family sedans, sensible wagons, or cars your accountant might have driven to work. Years later, enthusiasts have learned that some remarkably entertaining hardware was hiding beneath all that beige-era restraint.