You notice the 1957 Simca Aronde only after it has slipped past you, compact and unshowy, with a hint of French flair in its ...

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, ...

You meet the Simca 1000 at the moment Europe’s car market is learning to love the compact family saloon, and you can see exactly who it is trying to impress. It is not a luxury flagship and not a bare ...

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 ...

The Special was just about the peppiest small car on the market. Should the French firm be credited with creating the "hot hatchback"? Dr. Andrew Roberts is a cinema and motoring historian whose ...

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 ...

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 ...