The autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week this week comes from one of the longest-lived nameplates in automotive-dom. A nameplate that probably has been glued, riveted, and screwed onto the widest range of vehicles as well. It might be often overlooked, but it's also likely to become a semi-modern classic. A vehicle that will likely return from obscurity

Our autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week this week is a modern classic. Not the first to use a rotary engine, but definitely the most popular nameplate to use that engine design. Mazda has used the RX badge to let you know you're looking at a rotary on multiple vehicles, but the RX-7 is the one that put the spinning triangles on the map, at least in Nort

In a dusty gravel parking lot, a guy in a green Dodge Dakota skids to a halt, doubles back around, and whips out an iPhone. I can read his mind: “What in the heck are those things?” He snaps a picture, shakes his head and grins, flips us a quick thumbs-up, and then scoots off down the road with a spin of the rear tires. “I guess that happens a l

CHELSEA, Michigan – In 1983, Chrysler kick-started a brand-new segment when the first Dodge Caravan rolled off the production line. Inventing the minivan was a stroke of brilliance – not only fulfilling family transportation requirements with a vehicle expressly built for their needs, but almost certainly rescuing Chrysler from impending financial

When it comes to passenger car vehicle sales in Canada, I guess you could call it the Civic Authority. For nearly two decades, the humble Honda Civic has been the best-selling car in Canada. The Ford F-150 outdoes it, of course, but eliminate fleet sales and work trucks and the car that Canadians most turn to to get around has a Honda badge o

It might not be the glamorous monster that is the US Army Humvee, or even the Mercedes G-Wagen that Canadian forces use today. But that doesn't mean that the Iltis can't be your ultimate trail rig, off-roader, or winter go-anywhere machine. The Iltis, which is the German word for polecat, was originally a Volkswagen. Its official name was the Ty

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

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

Bread was invented in Egypt somewhere around 2,500 years ago. Butter was developed even earlier, perhaps in 7,500 BC. An exact date is cause for hotly contested debate, but the automobile was thought up somewhere in the latter half of the nineteenth century. As for the bread-and-butter car, that arrived in January of 1980. We called it the Toyota C

At forty, the Honda Accord is officially middle-aged. For those of us, it’s a blobby sort of milestone to be achieved, a time to look back in time and wish we could reclaim our youth – apart from the silly haircuts. However, the Accord needs no such nostalgia: it’s as quick as it’s ever been, and can still be purchased with a zippy four-cylinder an

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

Trademark filings discovered this week make it look like Harley-Davidson is planning to bring back the classic Sport Glide name for a new motorcycle. The Harley-Davidson Sport Glide was originally built from 1983 until 1993. It was a variant of the Super Glide with the addition of a mid-size fairing and windshield plus saddlebags. The Super Glide w

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

When Ferruccio Lamborghini first saw the engine that was to power his cars, he was furious. Engineering genius Giotto Bizzarrini, the man who shaped the Ferrari 250 GTO , had been given the task of creating a twelve-cylinder engine to rival Ferrari, but one built for the road. Clearly, this 3.5L 60-degree V-12 was a racing engine – its 11,000-rpm

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