The autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week this week is a stunning piece of Italian steel. Because if you're going to have to put your new car into storage the day you buy it, it should at least be something wonderful to look at. Something to warm your heart through a cold winter just from sight. It's a 1961 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint. The best part of

There are few better examples of the perfect American time capsule than Hot Wheels diecast models. Today, almost 60 years after the first run of Hot Wheels (ten cars in total – can you name ‘em?), they continue to produce both current models and classics from years gone by. If you want to know what was popular, what was sought after back in 1

As Jon Snow’s direwolf would probably say (if it were both able to speak and a tennis fan from 21 st -century Earth instead of a pet from a fictitious medieval planet) Wimbledon is Coming . Wimbledon is arguably the world’s most prestigious tennis tournament and is famous for its white-or-nothing dress code. One which is strictly enforced. To c

The motor vehicle as we know it is over a century old. Manufacturers have come and gone, risen and fallen, consolidated and contracted – but the car itself continues on. Monterey Car Week is perhaps the biggest item in a classic car fan’s calendar. Its culmination, the Pebble Beach Concours, is the champagne event for collectors, purists, and

All 36 Corvettes will be restored to running condition and resold In 1989, VH1 decided to do something unimaginable: accumulate 36 Corvettes, one for each year America's sports car had been manufactured, and give them away to one lucky viewer via a 900 phone number contest. And the best part of this story is it only gets more outrageous. Den

Remember that kid at the back of your high school math class – the one whose mother dressed him every day, who always seemed to have the right answer on every pop quiz, and who you never would have noticed had he not later gone on to become CEO at a Fortune 500 company, rubbing it in your face at your 25th year reunion? There are cars and trucks

Last weekend marked the 86th running of the biggest sports car race in the world. The 24 Hours of Le Mans. And while you can't buy one of the prototype racers that finished on the podium, you can buy a classic that wears the same name. Like our autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week, a 1971 Pontiac LeMans convertible. Pontiac first started using the LeM

LOS ANGELES – Not everything at the Los Angeles Auto Show is all about brand-new cars. In a city that’s all about car culture, there’s room for everyone. A huge exhibit on the lower level, called The Garage, has just about everything, from low-riders with hydraulic suspensions and metal-flake paint, to a 1930 Ford inspired by American custo

Will Volkswagen's reputation overcome the lasting stain of the diesel scandal? Surely, this must be one of the worst skeletons in the closet for any car company to have. Actually... wait a minute. Today, the Volkswagen Beetle is a fun little front-driver that you can order as a pink convertible. Its origins, however, are basically pure evil. Ori

If you wandered through the New York World's Fair in 1964, Instamatic in hand, you would have seen all sorts of weird and wonderful glimpses of the future. An all-singing, all-dancing revue of folks dressed up like molecules? That was there. Exposed fusion reactor? Yep, that too. A dishwasher-like appliance that shredded your dirty plastic plates a

Henry Ford may have said, “History is more or less bunk,” but it’s doubtful he really meant it. After he became a successful automaker, he spent much of his time collecting historical treasures. These ultimately resulted in a group of museums in Dearborn, Michigan now known as The Henry Ford. Despite the name, the museum isn’t owned or operated

Ah, to have pockets as deep as the Marianas Trench. You'd have to park something pretty good in the garage, wouldn't you? No, not a too-pedestrian Aventador or run-of-the-mill McLaren P1. Why, anybody can just buy one of those (sort of). In the immortal words of Nicholas Cage in Gone in 60 Seconds , “There's too many self-Indulgent wieners in

With just 7,868 miles on the clock, this immaculate 1962 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk two-door coupe is like a time machine that has emerged from a 1960s time-warp. Part of a classic car collection, it’s so well-preserved that its paint, chrome and upholstery appear like new. Enhancing its collectability is its official designation as a Certified

The volume and stratum of automotive history and art that’s on display at the General Motors Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, Michigan, is enough to bring even seasoned enthusiasts to their knees. But viewing it isn’t easy: it’s not open to the general public. That’s not to say that you can’t get access, though. You’ll just have to gather yo

It's a classic luxury sedan that's about to mark a golden anniversary: One of the iconic German luxury sedans that might not have the most power in the world, but will probably survive until the end of it. It's a 1970 Mercedes-Benz 220D with a great ad, and it's the autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week. Mercedes-Benz models, especially older ones, are