Brendan McAleer

With more than 100 Million sold, Honda's world-famous Cubs—and their many spinoffs—have outsold the Beetle, Corolla, and F-150 combined.

If you’re of a certain age, the reveal at SEMA of Toyota’s GR86-based Rally Legacy Concept played a digital soundtrack in your head and set any quarters in your pockets a-jangling. A two-door Toyota with turbo power, all-wheel drive, and red, white, and green racing livery? Time for a good old-fashioned Sega Rally!

· 2-min read Here's a heavy-hitter Ford from the peak of the muscle-car era.

· 3-min read Shelby made his name racing Fords, but during the '80s and '90s, he was all about Mopar turbo power.

Brendan McAleer · 3 min read The second-generation Toyota 4Runner arrived for 1990, and its available four-door body style marked a major departure from the original 4Runner.

Brendan McAleer · 4 min read The TWR Supercat blends old-school endurance racer with modern grand tourer.

Brendan McAleer · 3 min read The new Volkswagen Tiguan drops the third row but otherwise sticks to its volume-selling compact SUV recipe.

In Japanese culture, your sixtieth birthday is called kanreki, and it is an anniversary of high significance. In kanji, it is written as two characters:

Coachbuilding in the prewar period was all about what the British call “horses for courses.” In other words, a distinguished and demanding buyer would purchase a rolling chassis for speed and reliability, and then order a custom body suited to the type of expected use. Something swishy and chauffeur-driven, meant to flex on your fellow hoi-polloi? That’ll be a town car bodywork, only really suitable for rolling up to the red carpet. Or perhaps it’d be slippery Brooklands-style aerodynamics for the steely-eyed, tweed-clad tillerman. Or you could, you know, get something to carry your hot air balloon around.

Brendan McAleer · 3 min read Supercharged V-8. More leather than a baseball glove factory. This 2008 XKR coupe is Jaguar at its best.