Class of ’86 – Mazda RX-7

As we noted earlier in the Class of 1986 series, that year saw the ushering in of plenty of digital-age technology and the ushering-out of plenty of stone-age technology. Case in point: the Mazda RX-7. Introduced for the American market in 1979, the RX-7 made prominent use of the company’s Wankel rotary engines, and that […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1991 Mazda Miata

The trouble with cars that are in a certain age bracket – say about 10 to 25 years old – is that they’ve been around long enough for previous owners to beat on them and modify them, but nobody’s started restoring them yet, which means that if you want to find a nice, unmodified example, […]

Acura at 25: A call for your ‘classic’ Acura stories

It was 25 years ago this year that Honda went out on a limb and introduced their upmarket Acura brand, with its Integra hatch and Legend sedan available at launch. While Acura would become most famous for its Formula 1-derived, world-beating NSX sports car in the 1990s, the brand continues to sell well today with […]