Our good friend Colin Miller, to whom Autocade Year of Cars 2025 is dedicated, has passed away, aged 88. Colin was a motorhead, like most of us connected to Autocade. I still remember having a conversation with him about a Mercury Marquis I spotted. I said it was a beautiful hardtop sedan, and I was… Read More »Farewell to Colin Miller, 1937–2025
Ford Falcon is the most-visited model line page on Autocade. No surprises: it was the longest-running passenger-car nameplate that Ford had (1959–2016), covering production in North America, Australia and Argentina. We started adding Falcons to the main site early on. The BF was the current model in 2008, and in the history is its first… Read More »Forty-seven years of Ford Falcons
Surprisingly, we have cracked 42 million page views in two months, and that’s with “AI” bot blocks. We’re also blocking bot activity from Semrush (there is a lot of attempted entry), and letting through Ahrefs in a controlled way (a page a day, I believe). I’ve detailed the maths elsewhere: the original site netted at… Read More »Autocade reaches 42 million page views
All the Suzuki Cervos are up on Autocade, after having only the first and fourth on there since 2017. We filled in the gaps yesterday. The first remains the most memorable—the Giugiaro styling is still referenced by modern Suzukis such as the Ignis (the three strakes in the C-pillar) and the previous Alto (the overall… Read More »Suzuki and Aston Martin nameplate pages added
All 13 generations of the Ford Thunderbird are on Autocade now. I believe the first entry of the 13 that we put in was the boxy, Fox-platform 1980 generation, completed on August 17, 2009. The 1977–9 Thunderbird was added in 2011. A few more generations were added in the first few days of January 2014.… Read More »Thunderbirds are go
President Donald J. Trump has been talking about tariffs for a very long time, even as a businessman back in the ’80s. Back then he lamented that the US was being hard done by Japan, with all the Japanese cars and VCRs that Americans were buying, and yet the reverse was not true. (Never mind… Read More »Tariffs won’t make the Big Two great again
All the Baojuns are now up on Autocade. Since SAIC, GM and Wuling (a venture abbreviated to SGMW) created the marque in 2010, things have been rocky, though it wasn’t always so. Initially this was the parts’ bin brand: budget-priced cars which served as bases for Wuling, Chevrolet and even MG cars outside China. They… Read More »The three lives of Baojun (so far)
We have reached 5,300 models on Autocade, and the model that got us there was a pleasant surprise: the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Typ 34. No idea why we hadn’t done the Karmann Ghias, especially the Brazilian TC, which would be the sort of quirky car that I like seeing in Autocade. (The Brazilian SP2 was… Read More »Autocade reaches 5,300 models with something interesting
With the addition of the Xiaolong and Xiaolong Max, we believe we have Haval’s (哈弗) current range now up. It’s a tricky bunch with export names differing from the home ones, and as it’s Autocade, the home ones are what get indexed. With this Chinese SUV brand’s rapid growth—a few years ago, the H6 Coupé… Read More »Haval’s current line-up on Autocade
With the addition of the unremarkable Roewe Clever microcar, we now have all the Roewes up—hopefully we’ve covered both past and present models of this brand, which owner SAIC once saw as the successor to Rover, had it managed to secure the Viking longship badge and the Rover trade mark. While well known outside China… Read More »Roewe’s all up
