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
This is unfortunate: our sister publication Lucire really rated the third-generation MG 3, but Euro NCAP gives a stark warning: during the frontal offset crash test, the driver’s seat latching mechanism failed. This is serious, and such a failure has never been seen before at Euro NCAP. The driver’s seat twisted part-way during the impact,… Read More »Serious seat mechanism failure on MG 3—Euro NCAP issues warning
Mercedes-Benz has announced a new version of its top-selling GLC, this time an electric model, called the GLC with EQ Technology—a slightly clumsy name that leaves no doubt about what it is, namely its entry into the premium “compact” crossover market challenging the BMW iX3. While other versions will make their début, it’s the… Read More »Mercedes-Benz launches all-new GLC, with full EV model first
This image, of President Donald J. Trump standing in front of a Russian car, a Zhiguli (or Kopeyka in the vernacular)—better known as a Lada to the rest of us—was really posted by the Grand Old Party, with the words ‘The One Big Beautiful Bill will drive the return of the great American car.’ Either… Read More »Make AvtoVAZ great again
Before I started the Autocade website (I had been using the name prior as the motoring section of Lucire in print), I blogged about the BYD F0, or F1 as it was originally called. I called them out on the very obvious piracy—this was a Toyota Aygo clone—and BYD even went as far as to… Read More »Same old BYD?
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)
The Volkswagen Golf was important in 1974, but probably more significant was the dawn of Hyundai as an automotive force, something the Korean giant celebrates with pride 50 years on Originally published, with more images, in Autocade Yearbook 2024 Looking through that Motor show number, dated October 19, 1974, mentioned in the previous item, you… Read More »Hyundai’s genesis
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
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
