A trip to the zoo might lead to sightings of bobcats, cobras, cougars, rabbits or tigers Or, you might also see Bobcats, Cobras, Cougars, Rabbits or Tigers if you go to a classic car show or cruise night. That’s because animals have often been a source of car names. Greg Gjerdingen, CC B …

As the muscle car wars heated up in the latter half of the 1960s, Plymouth’s offering was the GTX. The concept (followed by many chasing the innovative Pontiac GTO) was simply put a big engine in a mid-size body and add some sporty trim. The  Plymouth GTX started as a mid-sized Plymo …

Greg Gjerdingen from Willmar, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons When Oldsmobile launched the all-new Tornado in the fall of 1965 as a 1966 model, the main pitch was that it was the first car made in North America that was front-wheel d …

Any classic car show is likely to include some Cadillacs, DeSotos, Lincolns and Pontiacs. But the names for these popular cars – and many others – came from historical figures. The Cadillac is named in honour of Antoine de la Mothe, sieur Cadillac, an explorer from French who discovered Detroit …

After the huge success of the Ford Mustang, which was introduced in April 1964, other automakers also wanted to get in on the game of offering their own low-priced, versatile, sporty-looking car – especially if they could be built largely from existing components. The Mustang had many underpinn …

Who needs words to describe cars, when mere letters will do? Letters on trunk lids actually often mean something – if you know how to decode them. Alfa Romeo gets its name from the initials of the full corporate name Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili, which translates to “Lombard Au …