The El Camino gets all the glory, but the utilitarian Ranchero embodied car comfort and pickup utility for more than two decades.

Could the 1970s be the worst decade in American automotive history? Two energy crises, a reckoning with pollution, a flood of ...

Cruise into vintage cool with this 1973 Ford Gran Torino Convertible on Exotic Car Trader—restored with a unique surfing twist that captures California vibes. Originally, the Torino was an upscale ...

Chief PC Lal, who commanded the IAF during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War, had introduced the car for ceremonial purposes.

If you really think about it, there are not that many things separating a Ford pickup truck from the F-250 family from one belonging to the half-ton class. A heavy-duty by trade, the former is, ...

On August 31, 1973, the film world bid farewell to John Ford, the visionary director whose “The Quiet Man” immortalised Ireland’s rolling green landscapes in the hearts of American audiences. Through ...

Introduced in 1964, the first-generation Ford Mustang remained in production for nearly a decade. But by the time it was discontinued in 1973, the pony car had morphed into something entirely ...

[This story originally appeared in the Fall 2010 issue of MotorTrend Classic] A big, nasty storm struck the American automotive market in 1959. It washed some 615,131 imported cars ashore, breaching ...

It was the poppy red, Wimbledon white and metallic blue paint scheme, with a flat-black hood, that shot its automotive arrow of love into car enthusiast Earl Rebman Jr.’s heart. The sporty two-door ...

In America, there's no limit to what you can accomplish; if you can dream it, you can achieve it. This was certainly true for Leslie Lynch King Jr. Of course, by the time he started his freshman year ...

The first “hybrid” in the United States had nothing to do with electric motors. Marketed as “More than a car … more than a truck … the Ranchero is a new idea in motor vehicles." Ironically, the ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...