Autocade has reached 45 million page views since our launch in March 2008. The latest million has taken one and a half months to notch up—very healthy indeed. Doing the maths, we’re adding 17,387,989 to the 27,647,011 from the old server, arriving at 45,035,000. We had some concerns that there were bots and “AI” scrapers, as… Read More »Autocade reaches 45 million page views
We’ve reached 5,400 model entries on Autocade, and the car that got us there is particularly special, launched just this week. The Ferrari 849 Testarossa Spider wasn’t what we thought we’d be adding, but for a friend of mine placing an order and showing me what he was planning to get. (He already owns a… Read More »Ferrari 849 Testarossa takes Autocade to 5,400
Volkswagen has released a second-generation T-Roc, with familiar design cues to those who loved the original. And there are plenty who did, with over two million sold worldwide. Volkswagen says the new T-Roc has been developed from scratch, with a new interior whose centrepiece is a 33 cm infotainment screen with background lighting, more room,… Read More »Don’t Roc the boat
We got there ahead of time: the main Autocade site has clocked up 44 million page views since we started in 2008. The counter is reading 16,356,122, which added to the 27,647,011 of the earlier installation, totals 44,003,133. This is with all known “AI” bots blocked, including ones that weren’t identified by one of the… Read More »Autocade now on 44 million page views
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
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
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
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.
