That seemed to be enough for many buyers, because the Seville was an immediate and profitable success, particularly in crucial West Coast markets. We’re not sure how well the Seville would have gone over five years earlier, but in the summer of 1975, it was exactly what Cadillac dealers a...
Introduced on September 22, 1973 with the rest of the Chevrolet model line, the ’74 Nova was another solid success for General Motors. Despite only a few nearly imperceptible trim changes over the previous year, more than 390,000 of the popular Chevy compacts were sold in ’74, including ...
both of which were expensive. In 1978, however, GM was readying a new crop of low-cost, front-wheel-drive X-cars (the Chevy Citation/Pontiac Phoenix, et al) for the 1980 model year. Aldikacti and the engineers at ENTECH realized that they could...
Jaguar had been toying with the idea of a V-12 since at least 1954. While six-cylinder engines were fine for the British and European markets, they left Jaguar at a disadvantage in the U.S., where cars with fewer than eight cylinders were considered economy models. The early V-12 conce...