Produced from 2005-2012, the C6 (I think) is one of the most stunning looking cars to ever wear the double chevrons. It was built to replace the XM as Citroën's executive car, although there was a five-year gap between the end of the XM and the start-up of C6 production. Of course, by this time Citroën was no longer in the car business here in the U.S., so I guess I'll have to take part of my Lotto winnings, fly over to Europe, and find one of the over 23,000 C6 sedans produced and bring it home. And then park it until it's a 25-year-old "classic" so we can hit the streets together. You can check out a German version of the brochure here. — jc
Since we haven't driven a new car into the Lotto Garage for months now, I decided it was time. It is also time to hearken back to my youth with this vintage Chevy. A white '61 Parkwood was the family's first station wagon — a six-passenger model in which we always wanted to ride w-a-y back where: a) there was no seat, and b) we could make faces out the back window at the people driving behind us. Hah! Kids. Of course, our Parkwood had blackwall tires and poverty hubcaps, because that was how Dad rolled back then. It would be years before a set of whitewalls graced our driveway, and decades before A/C showed its face. — jc
Okay, raise your hands. How many of you looked at this and said "A Gremlin?" Hah! This was one of AMC's marketing ploys to make the buying public forget about the Gremlin — rename it Spirit. Besides this very Gremlinesque "sedan" model (AMC's description, not mine), the Spirit also came in a more traditional-looking fastback/hatchback model (a.k.a. liftback). But this squareback sedan is how we roll at the Lotto Garage, because you rarely see one on the road anymore. Come to think of it, you rarely saw one in 1979, either! — jc
