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2021–2025 Caio Apache Volkswagen 22.280 ODS Urban Transit Bus: Not the VW Bus...
I’m sure CC readers know that MAN and Scania are part of TRATON SE, the truck and bus subsidiary of the VW Group. Accordingly, almost all urban transit and intercity coaches manufactured by VW fall...
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Bus Stop Classics: 2025 Ayats Twiliner Overnight Coach – Sleep Sound
Photo via YouTube The world’s largest annual motor coach exposition was held last week in Brussels – Busworld 2025. How I wish I could have attended. Fortunately, there is a lot of info posted online...
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Truck Stop Classics: Hino 500 Series Dakar Rally Truck – Gotcha Now Tatra
Photo by the author CC readers are likely aware that friend and fellow Japan cohort Tatra87 and I are both expats living here in Tokyo. The difference is he lives near the center of the city while I...
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CC Video Classic: 1982 GM HT 4100 Engine Promotional Video – World Record...
You may have heard of the Golden Raspberry Awards, also called the “Razzies.” They’re an annual satirical award given in the entertainment industry – to the worst movie, actor, Director, etc. — the...
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CC Video: 1982 Ford Fairmont, Chevrolet Citation, and Plymouth Reliant...
Photo courtesy Best Car Finder The below Ford promotional video from 1982 comparing the Fairmont to its competitors from GM and Chrysler popped up on my Youtube feed recently – and boy, did it bring...
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Military Classics: Lauster MF60 – Impressive Tank Towing Titan
Photo courtesy Авто-Тема While doing a little motorcoach research, I came across this leviathan. I initially thought it was one of those massive arctic glacier tour buses, but discovered it’s...
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Technobus Gulliver U520 – World’s Shortest Bus?
Some time ago, we reviewed the Autotram Extra Grand, the longest bus currently in operation. That begs the question; what’s the shortest bus out there? Well, let’s refine our criteria a little first –...
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CC TV: 1961 Buick Special – Techno-Steed Of The Forgotten Show Shannon
Photo by RL GNZLZ I’d like to think I’m a connoisseur of both Classic Cars and Classic TV, though the latter took a hit recently when I came across an early ’60s TV show on YouTube that I was...
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Bus Stop Classics: 1961 – 74 Neoplan NH Series Intercity Coach – The “Hamburg”
(first posted 7/20/2019) We’ve looked at a number of buses our parents and grandparents could have toured Western Europe in during their vacations in the 1950’s and 60’s; the Krupp SWO 480,...
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Bus Stop Classics: 1947 Flxible Clipper Mobile Airship Mast – Blimp Catcher
Photo courtesy Goodyear Corporation Good ‘ole Flxible Clipper – intercity bus, entertainer traveling coach, mobile television studio control room, postal bus, civil defense vehicle, roadside diner …...
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Bus Stop Classic Oddities: Superior Coach Company “Avenue”, “Supercruiser”,...
North and South American CC readers are likely familiar with the products of Superior Coach Company – you may have ridden in a Superior school bus “back in the day.” School buses were the company’s...
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Curbside Outtake: 1973 – 80 Nissan Caravan (E20) – The Box the Toaster Came In
(first posted 4/27/2019) This mid-1970s Nissan Caravan has been roaming our suburban Tokyo neighborhood for several years. The owner had parked it in different locations but appears to have...
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Bus Stop Classics: 1938 – 67 Flxible Clipper – Do You Know Your Clipper?
(first 6/8/2019) We reviewed the Flxible Clipper back in Feb 2016, but it’s such an iconic design, I thought it would be worth another look. Specifically, let’s dive into the variations and...
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CC QOTD: What Make and Model Had the Most Attractive Hidden Headlights?
As someone whose formative auto years were in the 1960’s, I’ve always been a fan of hidden headlights. While they haven’t completely disappeared, with the focus on aerodynamics, light weight, and...
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Bus Stop Classics: Flxible VistaLiner (VL) 100, Hi-Level, and FlxLiner – The...
(first posted 5/11/2019) Flxible is mostly remembered for its classic Clipper models of the 1950’s, but it also built some other well-regarded intercity coaches. Starting in 1954 through 1969,...
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Bus Stop Classics: 2021 Toyota Coaster Dual-Mode-Vehicle (DMV) – Two Is...
A while back we looked at the Yutorito Elevated Busway in the Japanese city of Nagoya – I recently came across another unique mass transportation system here – this one located on the island of...
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Bus Stop Classics: 1951 –’57 Pegaso Z-403 Monocasco Coach – Spanish Scenicrusier
(first posted 3/23/2019) While there were many “deck and a half” buses prior to the introduction of the General Motors PD 4501 Scenicruiser in 1954, it remains somewhat of an icon of the...
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Bus Stop Classics: ACF-Brill, Pullman-Standard, and St Louis Car Company...
1950 St Louis Car Company 48 Pax Trolleybus In a post several months ago we mentioned how Marmon-Herrington dominated the trolleybus market in the post-war period in North America. But the...
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Bus Stop Classics: 1920 – 1975 Lancia Buses – Italian Flair
(first posted 2/23/2019) Several weeks ago we looked at buses built by Alfa Romeo – today, let’s review another storied Italian manufacturer better know for its svelte coupes, handsome sedans, and...
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QOTD: What Are Some of the New Auto Technologies That You Love and Some That...
I’m getting to that age when for some reason or another, the mind starts to focus on the negative versus the positive – I’d call it “curmudgeon-itis.” I’ve tried to fight it off – when I was younger...
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