The autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week this week is a real winter car. Forget that lifted pickup or that new crossover with a faux locking differential. If you really want to show winter who the boss is, you need one of these. A snow plow. And not just some puny little tinfoil blade. This is the real deal. A highway plow. A 1985 International S series.

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

It all started, as so many business ideas have, with a long dinner and a scribble on a napkin. Paul Zimmer, president of Zimmer Corporation, drew his first sketch of his inspiration for a neo-classic car and handed it to his son Bob. Zimmer was already making mobile homes, conversion vans, and yachts, and Zimmer had seen the success companies like

If you're looking for a mid-engined exotic with a rare double-overhead cam engine, and you absolutely do not want to see the same car when you pull up to Cars and Coffee or Cruise the Dub, then we might have just the thing for you in this week's autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week. Starting with a 1985 Pontiac Fiero, this Lamborghini Diablo-inspired

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

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

Mostly, it’s the glasses. On the silver screen, a pair of thick-framed specs is good enough to disguise Superman as Clark Kent, so to the audience they’re sufficient as shorthand for Nerd. Usually it’s some well-known actress, dressed down and fitted with the Steve Urkel look, ready to be transformed near the end with a hair-flip and some slow, swe

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

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

Our Find of the Week this week is the end of a nameplate. Once a massive car and a trend-setter, the nameplate slowly grew smaller over the decades. Though that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's one of the last of the classic personal luxury coupes though you might not remember this particular generation all that well. It's obscure, it's 80's, it

The autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week this week is a more modern classic. One that lets you and some friends, or you and the kids, or you and the dog enjoy some top-down time this summer. With a little more sport than most four-seat convertibles. When Ford launched the pony car with the Mustang in 1964, Chevrolet's Camaro wasn't the only response.

In 2015, Mazda showed the RX-Vision concept at the Tokyo auto show, a prototype of a rotary-powered sports that would have succeeded the RX-8 , which was discontinued after 2011. It also would have proven definitively that Mazda was the only auto manufacturer stubborn (or crazy) enough to try to improve on the rotary engine, which is a fantastic

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