The sight of a French car on American roads today is slightly more common than spotting a unicorn. But, I'm not here to talk about the fading memories of French automakers being involved in the U.S.

Earlier this week I said I was looking for a sensible, reliable, no-bullshit daily driver that would give me time to work on my project cars. Someone suggested this $700 Simca 1204, and I'm seriously ...

During its heyday, the Bagheera offered an affordable, practical, and genuinely creative take on the motorsport-derived, mid-engine formula. Yet its lackluster performance, lack of brand prestige, and ...

We're staggering back into the sulfurous quagmire that is life in the Project Car Hell garage, and we're feeling a need to follow up German luxury coupes with near-total value depreciation with one of ...

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 ...

One evening last March, Francis Carlson (“Jack”) Reith, general manager of Ford of France, went to an American Embassy dinner in Paris and found himself sitting next to Henri-Thèodore Pigozzi, ...

Famous people everywhere have benefited from manufacturer largess through the years, from Clark Gable and his crazy Duesenbergs to the blinged-out Escalades and Hummers that prowl Hollywood Boulevard ...

You notice the 1957 Simca Aronde only after it has slipped past you, compact and unshowy, with a hint of French flair in its roofline. It never shouted for attention in the way a big American finned ...

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 ...