Two very different Japanese model lines have been completed on Autocade. The first is the Suzuki MR Wagon (not to be confused with the Suzuki Wagon R), which, once upon a time and badged as the Maruti Suzuki Zen Estilo, replaced the original Zen. Despite the name, it never had a mid-mounted engine or rear-wheel… Read More »Z cars (plus one)
Exactly two months since we cracked 42 million page views, we’re now on 43 million on the main site (15,364,474 plus 27,647,011 on the previous installation totals 43,011,485). We’re also serving 337,430 unique visitors per month there at the time of writing, though I noted in private correspondence we had cracked 300,000 during May. This… Read More »Autocade reaches 43 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
Ford Falcon is the most-visited model line page on Autocade. No surprises: it was once the longest-running passenger-car nameplate that Ford had (1959–2016), covering production in North America, Australia and Argentina. Mustang has since surpassed that time span. We started adding Falcons to the main site early on. The BF was the current model in… Read More »Fifty-seven years of Ford Falcons
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 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
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
