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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

We got all historical in the Hell Garage last week, with a Malcolm Bricklin-versus-John DeLorean gullwing boondoggle challenge. Automotive history is a fine thing, as we often demonstrate here at ...

Simca also implied “memories of your favourite sports car will come flooding back” on gripping the simulated wood steering wheel. Initially called Project 928, this model was Simca’s response to the ...

We're beginning to wonder if this blogging may be the wrong business to be in. Like, maybe there's better money in fielding weird requests from the worlds automotive eccentrics. Alan Berj writes to us ...

If you thought SUVs based on regular cars were a new thing, then pack your bags as we’re heading to France in the late 1970s. The car needed to be relatively inexpensive to bring to market, and offer ...

Note: The dimensions shown above are for the Simca (base), 1.3L, Leaded Petrol, 4 SPEED MANUAL. To display dimensions about another variant, click on one of the rows in the table below. Disclaimer: ...

A racehorse named after an old French banger from the 1970s will put his horsepower to the test in Europe’s richest race on Sunday. Simca Mille takes his name from the Simca 1000, a small rear-engined ...