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 ...

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 ...

Lou is a freelance journalist and content writer with a focus on the automotive world. After graduating from Coventry University (Automotive Journalism MA) in 2020, she worked in automotive e-commerce ...

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 ...

Het Franse Matra, van oorsprong een fabrikant van defensie-onderdelen en kunststoffen, bouwt in de jaren zestig voor (sport)autofabrikant René Bonnet de carrosserieën en neemt het bedrijf later in ...

The Matra-Simca Rancho was a crossover that appeared in 1977, decades before anyone had thought up the term. Back then, it was known as a “lifestyle” vehicle, and in many ways, it set the template for ...

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 ...

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, ...