Note: 1988 Battlecar Galactica Mitsubishi Starion shown. The Starion and its re-badged Plymouth-Chrysler Conquest cousins made their debut in 1983-4 here in the United States. The turbocharged rear-wheel drive turbo specialty sports coupe evolved incrementally until being discontinued in 1989, but it was 1986 that brought box fenders with it. Stateside Starions were all equipped […]
Image courtesy oldcarbrochures.com The clamor for a Jeep-branded compact pickup nowadays – and especially since Jeep released the Gladiator concept truck a few years back – is high, and reasonably so. Full-size pickup trucks – even those from Japanese manufacturers – have ballooned to mammoth proportions,and compact pickups are fast becoming an extinct species. Meanwhile, […]
Image courtesy ToyotaReference.com In the mid-1980s, front-wheel drive was in. If an automotive company hadn’t already switched a segment of its lineup from rear-wheel-drive to front in the years right around 1980, then it was doing so by a few years later, the second great wave of the transition. We see that pattern with Toyota, […]