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Gilbert Smith

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Originally hailing from New Mexico and currently based in Central Florida, Gilbert Smith is a professional author who has been covering classic and modern cars as a professional author for five years and change.

From his first car (a 1985 Honda CR-X) to his last (a 1997 Ford Thunderbird), Gilbert has had a soft spot for hatchbacks, and anything with eight-cylinders under the hood, for longer than he's been legally allowed to drive.

After spending several years as a journeyman content author, Gi…

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The V12 Toyota That Lexus Didn’t Want You To Know About

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By Gilbert Smith 
| CarBuzz
Toyota's dirty little secret is that Japan doesn't really need Lexus. Toyota was already seen as a high-end brand in the company's native Japan. In fact, the flagship of the automaker's luxury offerings is a Japan-only model. We're talking about the second-gen Toyota Century. The Toyota Century is a long-running nameplate for the automaker, dating back to 1967, and remaining in production to this day.
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BMW Built An EV Nearly 40 Years Before Tesla

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By Gilbert Smith 
| CarBuzz
The BMW i3 dates back to 2013, having launched five years after the Tesla Roadster first hit the market, but the German luxury brand's history with electric cars dates back much further than that. BMW has actually been tinkering with battery power since at least as far back as 1969, when it first came up with the concept for the BMW 1602e, built in 1972, just in time for the Oil Crisis.
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The Forgotten Ford Ranger Powered By A Mitsubishi Diesel Engine

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By Gilbert Smith 
| CarBuzz
Mitsubishi and Ford worked together in the 1980s to produce pickup trucks for the American market. That's a partnership that still boggles the mind today, 40 years later. The partnership is made all the more surprising by the fact that Chrysler held a 15% stake in Mitsubishi Motors Corporation in the early 1980s, so Mitsubishi apparently had a pretty mercenary attitude about who it would and wouldn't do business with.
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