Bagh is Hindi for cat and Bagheera is the name of the cunning panther in Kipling's Mowgli stories. It's also the name of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Matra, and it will be up to you to decide just ...

Many carmakers claim that one of its different models was the first crossover, but as far as I'm concerned that's like being the first locust in the plague. Curbside Classics says the Matra Rancho was ...

You’ve heard of a V8, but how about a U8? When engineers at ever enigmatic French automaker Matra Simca were told they couldn't build a bigger engine, they solved the problem by bolting two small ...

Good morning to all of you out there in Greater Autopia! The Craigslist gods have smiled upon me today. I have stumbled upon, without actually looking for them, two wonderfully weird old French cars ...

Het is al enige tientallen jaren geleden dat Simca’s overal in het straatbeeld te vinden waren. Er is zelfs een periode geweest dat de Simca 1100 de bestverkochte auto in Nederland was. En wie ...

On the eve of Land Rover promising to crack down on dodgy Chinese rip-offs (specifically the gold nuggets that come out of unfortunately-named ‘Land Wind’) we remember the dodgy French Discovery ...

French automakers of the 1980s had no shortage of cars described as "quirky" in various reviews of the time, and you'd have to go through a long list of the usual suspects from Peugeot, Renault, ...

De Impala-stickers van Simca zijn nog verkrijgbaar. Nogthans zijn ze zéér duur: zeker 15 Euro per stuk... Overigens de oorsprong van de impala-sticker is gelegen in het oorspronkelijke logo van het ...