As I'm sure you all know, Friday's Choose Your Eternity poll was the most one-sided yet, with the Quadra-Opel option absolutely vaporizing the Bi-Fiat choice. It would be interesting to see how a single Opel GT would fare against its Fiat 600 counterpart in a head-to-head matchup... but that will have to wait for…

This seems to be a '61 Simca Aronde with a custom truck bed installed, which gets an enthusiastic Jalopnik Stamp-o-Approval™. The only drawback is that you have to go to France to get it, but that's a small price to pay to become the only Simcamino owner in your town! Currently sitting at a 3,000 Euro bid price, but…

The 1959 Simca Vedette packed V8 punch and the crypto-automatic "Rush-Matic" transmission. And, according to this ad, it could even drive itself (though at one point a mysterious gloved hand appears to poke the Rush-Matic buttons). Those crafty Franco-Chrysler engineers had their act together! – Murilee Martin

I was chatting with a Brazilian coworker earlier, and he mentioned a favorite TV show from his childhood that was sort of a Brazilian forerunner to CHiPs: O Vigilante Rodovi rio. The plot centers around a heroic highway patrolman and his German shepherd, Lobo, fighting crime... but that's not important. The important…

I've forgotten my dream of owning a Harlequin Trabant with air horns, because I have found something even better Over There, in the land where our heroic doughboys braved mustard gas and Minenwerfers to fight the Kaiser: a 1959 Simca Chambord. The evolution of the Vedette R gence, the body of the '59 Chambord showed…

I used to work with a guy who had been a factory driver for Triumph in the early 60s, and he kept his racing jones alive by driving a restored Simca-Abarth in the vintage-racing circuit. It was kinda cool seeing all his photos of sideways Simca action, trading paint with Porsche 356s and the like, and since then…

Yes kids, it's the car that turned Simca, for a brief, shining moment into the second-brightest sales star in the nighttime skies over Bordeaux: the Simca Aronde. It debuted in 1951, and eventually made a whopping 70hp via its Rush Super engine, which is possibly the third greatest engine name in history, behind…