While strolling amongst the metal at the Pfaff Volkswagen showroom in Newmarket, a small green ovoid car grabs your eye and won’t let go. Funny, that. Introduced in 1955 and produced until 1974, the VW Karmann Ghia Coupe is living proof that some designs are timeless. It was penned by Luigi Segre of the Italian design house Ghia, and built

Update: This car sold the day of publication of this story. So you want an old school muscle car, but don't want to have to deal with any of the hassles associated with driving a vintage vehicle on a regular basis? Allow me to introduce you to the world of Pro-Touring. Pro-Touring is a term that came about in the early 90s when a number of pro

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

It was a car from the height of the horsepower wars, but it wasn't the biggest engine around. It wasn't even the biggest engine available in that car. It was a car designed to compete and win in one specific racing series. It is one of the most iconic cars of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was the Boss 302. And this one is our autoTRADER.ca Fi

Summertime means convertible time, and the best convertibles are the ones that are the most open to the sky. Well, it doesn't get much more open than our autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week for this week, a Citroën Méhari. Possibly the only vehicle in the world named for a type of camel. This one is for sale in North York, ON, a Toronto suburb. If

Worried about your classic car becoming legislated out of driving existence with future internal combustion engine restrictions? Or just want to take some classic styling and ditch the carburetors for capacitors? Aston Martin has created a concept for a powertrain that will let you update your classic DB into an EV.  Aston calls it a cassette po

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

Get yer chicken wings, get yer beer…it’s Super Bowl time! It’s the time of year when millions worldwide crowd around basements and bars, drink to their hearts’ content, and watch as Tom Brady hits yet another receiver, and Bill Belichick wears yet another hoodie (or is it the same hoodie?). All those eyeballs means the potential for a lot of

It's best to think of the partnership of Elhart Melcher and Hans Werner Aufrecht as a sort of modern day equivalent of the medieval armourers of the past. They toiled in their workshop (first in Burgstall and der Murr, later in Affalterbach), creating wheeled dreadnoughts of fearsome power. These days, the Mercedes name is tied to AMG as if by m

There have been plenty of cars built bearing animal names - Mustang, Firebird, Impala - but just how many vehicle design teams took the extra step and went full zoomorphic? Cars that look like animals aren't nearly as common as the fauna, fish, and fowl monikers spread throughout the industry might indicate, but we've rounded up the most unusual /

Countach. Rampage. Autozam. Citroen DS. GT4. Beetle. Ferrari. Lotus. Defender. Falcon. Lagonda. Delorean. Century. Spirit R. It's been a wild, weird year, spanning everything from a tiny gullwinged kei car with 65 hp to a brand new be-decalled McLaren to the original Mercury Marquis from the original Hawaii 5-0 . Well, that's me: Mr. Bad Ide

With interest rates at banks low, investors are looking for stable alternatives to build their money. Now a new report says that bankers in Germany are suggesting an alternative we can really get behind: classic German cars. Jens Berner, a vintage car expert for Suedwestbank AG, told Bloomberg  that "for customers with more than one million eur

Sometimes a vehicle design is so good at what it does that it sticks around seemingly forever. The Volkswagen Beetle, the Mercedes-Benz Gelandewagen, and the Harley-Davidson XR-750. The now iconic motorcycle was introduced for 1970, to meet changes to American Motorcyclist Association Grand National Championship rules. After a slight change to the

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