The car companies can be weird sometimes. Whenever they debut a new model, there’s a ton of fanfare, extravagant introductions and dozens of photographs showing off the most minute of features. They ...

It’s the era of polyester and malaise, of oil embargoes and inflation, one where mammoth Detroit land-yachts powered by wheezy V-8 engines with roofs sheathed in vinyl rule the American highway. Yet ...