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1956 Ford Thunderbird, Ford Motor Co. photo.

Thunderbirds are go

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

Side view of a 2025 Haval Xiaolong Max.

Haval’s current line-up on Autocade

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

Roewe D6 in a pale metallic green.

Roewe’s all up

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

Lotus Emeya, in yellow.

The four-door Lotus

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

2023 Toyota bZ4X XLE in white, viewed from the rear.

Top 10 car makers by sales, 2024

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

Innocenti Morris IM3.

Innocenti’s ADO16s

One of the regular types of updates we did on Facebook was letting followers know about the latest additions, whenever we finished a series of them. Therefore, not every update went through—that would have meant a crazy level of duplication. We restricted these to a recently completed series of cars (e.g. one model line, multiple… Read More »Innocenti’s ADO16s