In Photos, Most Popular Cars of the Last 50 Years
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Newsweek rounds up the top-selling vehicles for each year from 1971.
The Ford F Series has been omitted from the list due to the brand s total dominance, which for almost 40 years has been the best-selling overall vehicle in the U.S.
While the U.S. s car market is second only to China in scale, it is number one in terms of XL motors, such as Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and trucks.
CarGurus Director of Industry Analytics Kevin Roberts believes shifts in car models popularity reflects wider changes in demands.
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The 1950s was a great era for the automotive industry. The car market grew at a pace never before seen, and U.S. automakers were experimenting with wild designs. Brands like Cadillac and Lincoln were rolling out luxury models one after another. It was also the decade when Chrysler teamed up with Ghia to create the hottest luxury coupe out there. 11 photos
Ghia, a coachbuilding firm from Turin, Italy, had already gained traction following a series of redesigned Alfa Romeos and Ferraris, but it had worked with local brands only by 1950. That changed when Chrysler and Ghia formed an unlikely partnership, one that oversaw the birth of a few stunning production cars and concepts. The Ghia Special Coupe is one of them.
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Junkyard Find: 1969 Chrysler Newport 4-Door Sedan
Chrysler redesigned the big C-Body cars for the 1969 model year, calling the vaguely airplane-ish curved-panel look the “Fuselage Style.” Although the prole-grade Fury and middlebrow Dodge Monaco looked distressingly similar to their upscale Imperial and Chrysler New Yorker/300/Newport siblings in the 1969-1973 Fuselage era (further blurring the Snoot Factor dividing lines among the Chrysler divisions), these cars offered plenty of Detroit steel at a good price. Here’s one of the most affordable Chrysler-badged C-Bodies available during the first year of Fuselage Styling, found in a Denver-area car graveyard.
At the top of the 1969 Chrysler C-Body pyramid (the Imperial was its own marque during this period) stood the New Yorker, which came with all sorts of Michigan Plushitude and high-tech features. Below that came the 300, and then several increasingly-affordable versions of the Newport. Today’s Junkyard Find is a bottom-o