Chevrolet may not have always been the innovator, but it certainly knew what the buying public wanted most of the time. Chevrolet did not introduce the world to the four-wheel drive truck (or 4x4 as it later became to be called), but it sure knew how to package one the buying public wanted. After World War II, Jeep was the only game in town for four-wheel drive and off-road capability. The open air two-door CJ series was Jeep’s off-road staple. International Harvester noticed the steady increasing Jeep CJ series sales and decided it wanted in so it released the 1961 Scout – a two

In the 1960s and 1970s while American automakers were fixated on two-door muscle cars, European automakers like BMW and Mercedes were producing sporty four-door sedans that could accelerate quickly and handle like sports cars. Upon its release, the four-door 1968 BMW Bavaria was the first true sports sedan with handling and performance that trumped all other four-door sedans of that period. BMW and Mercedes spent the 1970s honing their craft of making sporty sedans, while the American automakers remained asleep except in a few rare cases. BMW and Mercedes were slowly increasing their America