Quick Spin: 2018 Dodge Challenger GT

2018 Dodge Challenger GT in IndiGo Blue
2018 Dodge Challenger GT
Class: Sporty/Performance Car
Miles driven: 285
Fuel used: 15.5 gallons
Beijing Auto Show: 2019 Lexus ES

2019 Lexus ES
After years of catering solely to buyers in the market for cushy luxury, the Lexus ES is ready to show some teeth. The seventh-generation ES revealed at the Beijing Auto Show will be the first available in an F Sport version.

Dodge Omni 024 De Tomaso
by Don Sikora
Note: The following story was excerpted from the October 2017 issue of Collectible Automobile magazine.
The 1978 Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon hatchback sedans were Chrysler’s well-received answer to the Volkswagen Rabbit. Racy Omni 024 and Horizon TC3 two-doors followed for the 1979 model year as the American company’s response to the Rabbit-based Scirocco.
What was the Aston Martin Cygnet?

Aston Martin Cygnet
Why would Aston Martin, a British company known for building ultra-luxury high-performance coupes, contract with Japanese automaker Toyota to build an Aston-branded version of one of the smallest, least-powerful Toyota-built cars on the market? Turns out there’s a good answer to that question, but it gets a little complicated.
First Spin: 2019 Toyota Avalon

2019 Toyota Avalon
It can be a tricky quest for a company: How to attract new customers without alienating the old. And in this case, “old” has kind of a double meaning.
Review Flashback! 2006 Chevrolet SSR

2006 Chevrolet SSR
The 2003-2006 Chevrolet SSR was a retro-styled convertible pickup truck, though the vehicles with which it shared its basic architecture were none of the above. It would not surprise me if the SSR was the product of a truth-or-dare game gone horribly wrong, and a group a General Motors engineers found themselves at the losing end of a sinister “dare.”

1910 Buick 60 Special “Bug” Racecar
by Jack Stewart
Note: The following story was excerpted from the February 2016 issue of Collectible Automobile magazine.
Don’t cross Buick. The manufacturer was eager to win some races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 27, 1910, but its Model 30 racecars were disqualified the morning of the race. Buick management was mad and resolved to get even. In a time before “the Brickyard” had settled on a yearly 500-mile race, Buick planned to come back for the track’s next meet on July 1 with revolutionary cars to extract its revenge.