Holy crap, every single car on these photos is a masterpiece. Compared to those, modern cars look like a sad joke.

The GMs were among my all-time favorites in 1973-77. I was anxious to sink my teeth into them as soon as they came out!

My mother had a '72 Grand Torino sedan, which she loathed. She called it "the Turkey" and badgered my dad to trade it. One of the rare times she had a strong opinion about a car. I especially liked the Australian offerings, as well as the Opels. The Record D at 12:03 was beautiful!

$2600 to $3500 in the early 70s, with inflation would be $21,000 to $29,000 in today's 2024 money.

Some of the best looking cars of all time.

Watching your videos takes me back to my childhood. Thanks, hopeless car Guy ❤ My first car was a Datsun station wagon it was also my sister's first car.But when had it I painted with eight can of rustuom(spelled it wrong)black.I painted the headlights black,the Bright's didn't work,along with the side windows in rear but not the back window, that would be illegal I used to take it two tracking.No power steering no power brakes I think drove that car three or four years.😂 I'm an artist so I scratched the back window with the Pink Floyd The Wall characters backwards so at night you could see it.❤

I absolutely love the way you seamlessly segue between American, British, Italian, Swedish, Soviet and Austrailan ideas of "mid size", even though these were very different at the time. I fear some people will disagree with this approach, but I whole heartedly support it!

Thank you for sharing. Have a nice weekend.

The Torino and Montego were my favorite out of these bunch

my favorite mid size cars from that era are the Chevy Chevelle Pontiac Le Mans Oldsmobile Cutlass etc. my paternal grandfather had a 1974 Cutlass S maroon and silver two tone exterior and standard black Vinyl Upholstery

The FOMOCO twins were absolute giants to be midsized, they were huge. The GMs were ideally sized while the Mopars were reasonable.

Love this site!!!

It's surprising that engines like the Ford 429 was still making 370 gross horsepower in 1972. Typically 1970 was the peak and after that compression dropped, cams got mild, jetting got lean, right? Apparently there were some exceptions still in 1972. 72 had to be the last year though.

Thanks for making the Australian, arguably standard size cars here. more well known . For seventies Fords in Australia you used the example of the XY Falcon at 17:25. However this was more the final development of the 1967, and very US derived, XR Falcon model range so more linked to the sixties. The next model XA Falcon, on sale by March 1972 was the car Ford Australia developed through the seventies and started the path to outselling Holden by the early eighties. This would have been unthinkable for decades as GM Holden had been so dominant. The GM Holden market share of 50% in 1960 Australia was likely the best GM did in any world market. And they did that with very little GM money meaning very high return on investment. The XA Falcon is also notable world wide since that is where the Mad Max cars mainly came from. The XA series reintroduced the pillar less two door hardtop model to the range also generating lots of car guy interest now with the internet and Mad Max, but pretty much only known in Australia and New Zealand back then. The XA was developed into the updated XB and XC models as the seventies progressed until replaced by the completely different looking XD model in 1979. The XA, XB and XC, especially the coupe models, should generate lots of interest in your viewers i would expect. Some recent detailed background on the XA may be of interest : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jr2mmbCA1cvdaZs.htmlsi=AjKcVsf2D4EQL3iS

Thank you for another great topic and interesting video. I always enjoy when you go global. I will say this.. what they were calling midsize in the United States in the early 1970's was considered full sized by the late 1970's( 1977 forward) and by the 1980's for sure. Look at the many so called large cars in 2024 to see my point. What GM was calling fullsized during the downsized era in the 1985-1990 time frame clearly was midsized( C and H Bodies) and not large. I would say compact in some cases( E and K bodies). They all went back up in size in the 1990's but carried the dimensions of early 70's midsize. What Europe was calling midsized looked compact. Compact cars have become larger in 2024. Good to see the Opels and Fords that were carrying American car styling. Good to see Holden as well. Thank you so much.

AMC was a unque company....ahead of their time, which was also their demise in some sense.

What he didnot metion when it came to the Dodge Coronet was that the midsized 2door hardtop were all Dodge Chargers starting in 1971!.

bigger and better than todays little plastic toys

1:36 very very rare car not many saved

Mid-size car, Detroit, and 1970s don’t go together in the same sentence. That’s why all you see in the sedan segment left on the road is Camry, Accord, and Altima. I was born in the 1970s. All I see are pictures of land barges that guzzled gas and had Titanic responsiveness in steering and handling.

I think you should add some of your blooper reels 😁🤣😂🥴😵😱😤

The Fords always looked bloated to me. Loved the 72-73 Matadors and the 71 Plymouth. The Blue with white trim Coronet looks perfect as I love medium blue. I hated the mushy marshmallow GM riding cars. I lived in this era and the GM collonade cars were all over (think 74 Malibu) I hated them then but want one now because it brings back so many memories. I was a Chrysler kid and we had A bodies (Darts and Dusters) and a 73 orange Dodge Sportsman Van growing up.

The foreign cars generally show the much lower expectations people have been trained to have in those societies .