The 2012 model year is the one a lot of used Harley shoppers circle without quite knowing why. Here’s the why: it’s the year the Twin Cam 103 became standard…
1974 Car Models: The Year Detroit Got Choked
Nineteen seventy-four was a rotten year to buy a new car, and a fascinating one to read about fifty years later. The Arab oil embargo had just throttled gas supplies,…
1943 Toyota Car Models: The Wartime Lineup Explained
By 1943, Toyota was barely building cars at all. The company that would later flood the world’s roads with Corollas was, that year, a wartime supplier to the Imperial Japanese…
1950s Suzuki Motorcycles: The First Bikes, Model by Model
Most Suzuki histories you’ll find online sprint through the 1950s in two paragraphs on their way to the GSX-R. The decade gets a sentence about a clip-on engine, maybe a…
1960s Kawasaki Motorcycles: The Decade That Built a Brand
Kawasaki didn’t start out making motorcycles. It started out making ships, bridges, and aircraft engines, and the company only stumbled into two wheels because it needed something to do with…
2015 Lamborghini Models: Every Car, Spec & Price
Most “2015 Lamborghini lineup” pages give you a spec card and call it a day. That misses the actual story of the year. 2015 was a hinge moment for Lamborghini:…
Gilroy-Era Indian Motorcycles (1999–2003) Buyer’s Guide
For about four years, you could walk into a dealership and buy a brand-new Indian motorcycle with a 1999 build date. Not a Harley. Not a restored antique. A new…
1988 Honda Motorcycle Models: The Complete Lineup Guide
1988 was the year Honda stopped playing it safe. The CBR Hurricane line had just landed, the Hawk GT showed up with a single-sided swingarm nobody asked for but everybody…
1987 Ferrari Models: The Full Lineup and What They’re Worth
1987 was the year Ferrari turned 40, and Enzo Ferrari, then 89, signed off on one last car before he died. That car was the F40, and it would become…
1940s Moto Guzzi Motorcycles: A Decade Shaped by War
The 1940s split Moto Guzzi nearly in half. The first years belonged to the Italian Army, which bought thousands of horizontal-single dispatch bikes and sidecar haulers. The back half belonged…
1960s Cadillac Models: The Complete Decade-by-Decade Guide
The 1960s were the years Cadillac decided to grow up. The decade opened with cars still wearing the towering, rocket-inspired tailfins of 1959, and it closed with the crisp, sheer-sided…
Every 1978 Honda Motorcycle Model, Ranked by What Matters
1978 was the year Honda stopped pretending the four-cylinder CB750 was enough. They launched a 105-horsepower six-cylinder superbike, a water-cooled V-twin nobody asked for but everyone remembers, and a Gold…