For many people, Ferrari isn't so much a car company as a weaver of dreams. The prancing horse is beautiful to behold, but always seems to remain gambolling just out of reach, expensive, unruly, impractical, and expensive. Did we mention expensive? Hence the current surge in popularity of the air-cooled Porsche, which allows for some of the same

The problem with classics is that, well, they're old. Some of the coolest cars are from the years before extended service intervals, decent handling, modern safety equipment, and functional air conditioning. Our autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week this week helps bridge the gap between classic cool and modern reliability. It's a 1989 Nissan Pao, one of

Want the ability to go just about anywhere? And then once you're there stay for as long as your food and water hold out? This might help. It's a 1989 Land Rover Defender with a twist. An interior from the Rover modification specialists at Exmoor and a whole lot of camping gear. The Land Rover story started way back in 1948. After surprisingly fe

Our Find of the Week this week is a car that lets you put one of the most storied brands in automotive history in your garage. For about the price of a midsize luxury sedan. It's a 1989 Ferrari Mondial t Cabriolet. The supercar builder that wears Enzo Ferrari's name is one of the most well-known brands in the world. That's because of a history o

Porsche has just said that they're planning to build the 911 Speedster concept as a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the original 356. It's limited to just 1,948 and they didn't say when it will make it to market. The Speedster name, though, is far from new. Porsche has been using the special designation for decades, though it gets used spari

The autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week this week is a car that does fast a little bit different than most. This one-owner modern classic is the result of a 30 year project. It's an exceptional, highly modified 1989 Ford Mustang LX that the owner, sadly, didn't live to see completed. The owner of this car was a life-long enthusiast. He spent much of

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

The world of motorsports is more regimented than we would like to admit. There are those out there who would prefer to see old-school muscle cars stick to straight-line tests of speed, segregating them from the stables of classic sports cars that crowd road courses and rally stages across the continent. Then there are people like my father, who rea

Typically, auto shows are such a generic pastiche of throbbing music, pulsating lights, and painted-on smiles, that after a while, they all tend to blend together. Did the new NSX debut in L.A.? In Detroit? Last year or the year before? All of the above?  It's all segment-leading globalization this, and alternative sustainable autonomy that, and he

It's often said that Jerry Seinfeld didn't get into car collecting for the profit. That’s good, because while many might wonder how anyone could pay $3,000,000 US for an old race car you can hardly drive, much of his collection fetched far less at auction than expected. CNBC reports that originally, the total haul of the collection was projected

BMW's roundel is not meant to represent a propeller. That bit of mythology comes from an illustration in an old ad, trumpeting the brand's aeronautical heritage. However, the blue-and-white badge that sits on the nose of every BMW comes from an even earlier idea: a tribute to the coat of arms of Bavaria. A century since the first BMW left the

The 16th annual Toronto Subaru Club HyperMeeting was held at Subaru Canada’s head office in Mississauga this weekend. And if those words immediately found you forming a preconception in your mind of what sorts of people might turn up at such an event, you might consider shelving them. This gathering of the brand’s most ardent enthusiasts, which

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

If there was one car story that piqued the interest of enthusiasts these last few years, a strong case can be made for Singer Vehicle Design . For the uninitiated, Singer is a car design and restoration house started by ex-car designer/automotive rock star Rob Dickinson, specializing in the re-imagination of 964-generation Porsche 911 sports