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The Carchive: The 1980 Mercury Cougar XR-7
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It’s that time again. Seven days have passed since we left the familiar chaos of the 21st century and took a bumpy, déjà vu-heavy trip down the history highway, before pulling up in the dark, litter-strewn parking lot of days gone by. Welcome back to The Carchive. Last week we only made it back twenty…
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The Carchive: '97 Daewoo range.
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Last week’s raid of The Carchive was courtesy of General Motors in the mid-’70s, with the German Opel Manta. This week we’ve jumped forward a couple of decades, but we’re kind of keeping The General in mind, as you’ll soon see. We’re off to South Korea to find out what Daewoo were up to in…
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The Carchive: The Opel Manta
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Last week, we plumbed the depths of the filthy lagoon of automotive history, and the turgid corpse that bobbed to the surface was the third-generation Chevy Impala and Caprice. This was a car famous all around the world – mainly for appearing in North American films in police cruiser or yellow cab form. This week’s…
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The Carchive: The '79 Chevrolet Caprice and Impala
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It’s been several weeks since we last last dipped our bucket into the fetid swamp of motoring past, and trawled up the early ’80s Nissan Patrol. We’re creeping backwards just a couple of years this time, but skipping continents to land stateside again. Welcome back to The Carchive. North America has produced many iconic cars…
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The Carchive: The third-generation Nissan Patrol
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After the Nissan Prairie a fortnight back, and the Citroen Dyane last week, we’re still in Utility Mode here at The Carchive. We’re looking at Datsun / Nissan’s entry to the SUV fray – in the early days of that phrase having traction, so to speak. It’s fair to say that the Datsun Patrol rather…
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The Carchive: The Citroen Dyane
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Last week we took a look at Nissan’s vision of an ultra-practical family car for the ’80s – the vertiginously styled Prairie. Today we’re moving a little way back in time, a little way North in latitude, and a little way south on the price lists. This week’s subject car really does go back to…
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The Carchive: The 1984 Nissan Prairie
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It’s back to brochures for this Carchive installment. The last one we covered was the 1980 Dodge Imports – ostensibly rebadged Mitsubishis that sold on value and economy, yet somehow image and fun, too. Today we look at a machine with absolutely no sense of vanity, no illusions of grandeur, no upmarket pretentions. The Mk1…
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Carchive Special: The European cars that caught me unawares
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As we know, true car geeks will feverishly devour any relevant information that comes their way on their journey along the path to enlightenment. The thing is, though, that information doesn’t necessarily arrive in the order you expect it to. When I was growing up, my local newsagent stocked all the most popular British car…
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The Carchive: The 1980 Dodge Imports
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Our last visit to The Carchive took us to mid-sixties Luton, where the Vauxhall Viva veritably glistened with all the trappings of mid ’60s British austerity, providing a striking contrast from the American iron we’ve looked at over the last couple of weeks. We’re heading back Stateside today… or are we? This 1980 Dodge Imports…
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The Carchive: 1966 Vauxhall Viva
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The last few weeks have been a little Americentric, so I figured I’d stick a little closer to home today. We’re staying with 1966, but visiting Luton, Bedfordshire to take a look at the upgraded Vauxhall Viva range. Keep the last fortnight’s AMC Rambler and Marlin, and the Buick Riviera before that, in mind and…
