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Oct

Forgotten Concept: Saturn Flextreme

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Written by Tom Appel in Auto Shows, Concept Cars, Design, Detroit Auto Show, Forgotten, Forgotten Concept, Frankfurt Auto Show, General Motors, Green Technology, Plug-in Hybrids, Saturn

Saturn Flextreme Concept

This is an installment in a series of posts looking back on show cars that we feel deserved a little more attention than they got. If you have a suggestion for a Forgotten Concept topic, please shoot us a line or leave a comment below. Read more...

May

Cheap Wheels: 1975-1977 Oldsmobile Omega F-85

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Written by Don Sikora II in Cheap Wheels, Classic Cars, Collectible Automobile Magazine, Forgotten, Oldsmobile

1975-77 Oldsmobile Omega F-85

Note: The following story was excerpted from the April 2021 issue of Collectible Automobile magazine.

Oldsmobile’s first compact was the 1961 F-85. Midyear, the line added a deluxe coupe called Cutlass. In 1964 the F-85 grew into a true intermediate, with the Cutlass gaining fans as a sporty premium series. By 1973 it had become the car the public associated with midsized Oldsmobiles and the increasingly marginalized F-85 was gone.

Loose-Ends Madness! A Gallery of Strange and Obscure Car Ads

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Written by Tom Appel in Classic Car Ads, Classic Cars, Daihatsu, Dodge, Forgotten, Isuzu, Renault, Suzuki, Volkswagen

1974 Renault 17 Gordini

I’ll be frank: I collect car ads in different folders with the intention of finding a sufficient number of similar ads to create a blog-post gallery. The ads shared here? Well, I’m having the blog-post equivalent of a fire sale. I love these ads, but I can’t really see them becoming part of any article with anything like a coherent theme. Read more...

May

The Forgotten Cars of 2000 (and One Truck)

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Written by Tom Appel in Chevrolet, Chrysler, Classic Cars, Forgotten, Hyundai, Isuzu, Mitsubishi

2000 Isuzu Hombre

The year 2000 resonates for me, because it was the year in which I became a dad. Automotively, this meant selling my beloved Acura Integra and buying something more practical, in this case a Nissan Maxima SE. Nice car, the Maxima.