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
One of our regular visitors at the original Autocade reference got us thinking: now that that part of the site has no comment form, how can people give us feedback? The reasons for the form’s removal are here, and we haven’t found a replacement that we can easily install. So in the interests of hearing… Read More »Open forum: over to you
With Carlos Tavares gone from the CEO’s office at Stellantis, there’s talk about culling brands again. Who could be on the chopping block? There’s the newly revived Lancia, which had been on death row for some time under FCA. Only one of the new models announced last year has been released. But that would be… Read More »Stellantis might cull; who’s the target?
How wonderful to see another endorsement from my friend and colleague Giles Chapman, who endorsed the first Autocade yearbook. For the latest edition, he writes on Linkedin: ‘The second annual edition of Autocade has just arrived, conceived and published by my friend Jack Yan and Lucire. In the great tradition of automotive annuals, Autocade is… Read More »Year of Cars 2025, as endorsed by Giles Chapman
Here’s where you can add your thoughts about Autocade Year of Cars 2025: what you liked about it, what you’d like to see more of, and what you’d want to see less of.
At over 2,000 kg, the Emeya GT saloon might be unusual to Lotus purists, but it makes more sense than earlier four-door cars that bore the badge
Thanks to the positive press coverage in Octane (see their March 2025 number here), for which we are extremely grateful, the main Autocade site has reached its latest million-page milestone in two months, two days. Now over 41 million page views have been served, and that’s after blocking the “AI” bots that inflated our count… Read More »Autocade reaches 41 million page views
For those who bought Year of Cars 2025, you’ll have seen a table that shows the top 10 in 2003, 2013 and 2023, though the last one was from a different source. There are new figures now based on units sold for 2024, detailed below. Toyota 10·39 million Volkswagen 8·48 million Hyundai 6·82 million Renault… Read More »Top 10 car makers by sales, 2024
