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.
A retired police car can look like the ultimate loophole in the used market. You get big power, heavy duty hardware, and a price that often undercuts civilian versions of the same sedan or SUV. That combination is exactly why so many parents end up asking the same question your family is asking now.
You walk into a dealership ready to pay cash, thinking you are about to skip the finance office drama. Then someone asks for your Social Security number or says they need to run your credit. That is the moment many buyers wonder whether something shady is going on.
The car gets used once a week, starts when it’s supposed to, and seems perfectly happy in the driveway. Then comes the warning: Drive it every day or you’ll ruin it. Nobody wants an expensive repair bill. But is taking that advice actually helping?
What if, one particularly freezing morning, your neighbor plugged his diesel's block heater into your outlet because he was in a rush? Now what if he did it every single morning without fail and never once asked. Then it's not about being neighborly anymore.
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.
You didn’t ask for the tint separately. It came with the car as part of a required appearance package. But if it doesn’t meet local law, figuring out who should pay to fix it gets complicated fast.
