While the American car market was booming in the '50s, independent carmakers were struggling in the face of the financial might of GM, Chrysler, and Ford, with Packard shutting down for business by ...

The 1970 AMC Rebel Machine is mainly recognizable due to its tri-color patriotic color scheme, but the muscle car was also ...

Just as there was once an age of giant reptiles some 100-odd million years ago, there was once an age of American automotive giants. Although they may be dinosaurs today, the “Big Three”—General ...

This is a segment I produced for the TV show MotorWeek as part of their "Muscle Car Memories" series. American Motors ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, muscle cars were successful with the young car-buying demographic, not just with power and style, but also with cool model names. For the first few decades after cars ...

American Motors Corporation was an absolute mess by the mid-1980s, and its financial problems in the U.S. market were compounded by infighting at its European corporate parent, Renault, where ...

American Motors Corporation was an absolute mess by the mid-1980s, and its financial problems in the U.S. market were compounded by infighting at its European corporate parent, Renault, where ...