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An Accord from the era when the Accord had no real competition. Nearly all of them have been crushed by now, but I found this one in a California junkyard.

These days, it’s hard to imagine a company better positioned to take on Tesla than Geely-owned Volvo and Polestar. Volvo made headlines back in 2015 when it promised that all new Volvos would be electrified starting in 2019 and ruffled more feathers when it spun off its successful motorsports brand, Polestar, into a purely electrified […]

When I originally set out to write TTAC’s list of “best track cars”, I didn’t do so all that originally. That is to say, you probably already know what cars were going to be on that first list, without ever having read it. The BMW E30, Porsche 944, and Mazda Miata were there, and the […]

In 1921, there were more than 25 million horses in a United States populated by less than 110 million humans. I’m not a mathematographer, by any means, but I think that puts us at a ratio of about one horse for every four-ish people out there.  And, just like there are many kinds of people, […]

A Kansas sunrise is one of the most beautiful things in the world. The way the sky bends as orange and yellow blossoms far and wide is nothing short of a spiritual experience. You know what else is beautiful though? Watching the curve of a a road constantly dive and flex out of view in […] The post A Kansas rider in Southern California’s motorcycle playground appeared first on Hagerty Media.

Share Welcome to What If , a new feature from imaginative illustrator Abimelec Arellano and Hagerty. We’ll be taking you back in time—and possibly forward into the future—to meet alternative-universe automobiles. Even better, our time machine is working well enough to bring “short take” reviews along with the photographs and advertisements. Buckle up and enjoy the ride! — Jack Baruth (Originally published in McKeel’s Magazine, September 2020 issue) As we enter the 2021 mode...

Review: 2020 Hyundai Genesis G90 5.0 Ultimate RWD Hagerty 12/27/2020 © Provided by Hagerty Jack Baruth True story: If you wanted a new Fender Stratocaster in 1985 or 1986, all of your choices were made in Japan. Three years before, the company had handed responsibly for virtually all of its production to a Japanese company called FujiGen Gakki — and in 1985, when CBS sold the Fender brand, its Fullerton, CA factory went ahead and shut down even the custom shop line. It took nearly three ...