2025 was a good year for Eighties Cars, with page views up a substantial 91% over 2024. We managed an all-time high of 76 new blog entries in 2025—one every five days on average.
Post counts were divided into 66 featuring a specific car, 4 covering auctions, and 6 miscellaneous posts. Three marques made their first appearance in a specific post in 2025—Lamborghini, Rolls-Royce, and Yugo. You cannot say that we don’t discuss a wide range of vehicles on Eighties Cars …
I look at the end-of-year results for the blog’s most-viewed posts every December. For 2025, it once again looked like the key to an individual post’s popularity was often in the rarity of the other coverage available for that particular vehicle. We’ll discuss this year’s top ten most-viewed posts in reverse order.
10) 1989 Buick Electra Park Avenue Ultra sedan—this 2020 post about the top-of-the-line Buick for 1989 (more expensive than the Riviera) dropped five spots in 2025.
9) 1989 Chevrolet Celebrity sedan—this 2016 post, which was inspired by a work colleague’s Celebrity, returned to the top ten after a five-year pause. Most Celebrity coverage I have seen is about the sporty Eurosport version, not the far better selling base car.
8) 1983 Ford Eddie Bauer Bronco SUV—the highest ranking SUV this year is a new entrant to the top ten list.
7) 1980 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ coupe—a relatively recent post from early 2022 shows some staying power. Down three spots in 2025 for Pontiac’s final SJ version of the Grand Prix.
6) 1985 Buick Somerset Regal coupe—this post has been picked up by other websites a few times, including in 2018 by Jalopnik. Hilariously, I’m not sure I would have ever gotten around to writing about the Somerset Regal if I hadn’t seen one on the streets of Philadelphia back in 2014. Down three steps this year, this post is the fourth most popular entry since Eighties Cars debuted over a decade ago.
5) 1987 Mercury Lynx XR3 hatchback coupe—Mercury is, of course, an orphan make, but this blog entry has been viewed about six times more than my write-up on the related 1981 Ford Escort hatchback coupe. Down four spots this year.
4) 1988 Cadillac Eldorado coupe—this late 2018 post on the emergency 1988 Eldorado restyle never stood out until this year, when its views went up 279%. It edged the far more glamorous 1984 Eldorado Biarritz convertible by a solid 28% (we won’t talk about how the 1986 Eldorado coupe did).
3) 1989 Cadillac Sedan de Ville—this post on the final de Ville of the decade did well, but not great, for eight years after it was first written. This year, somewhat inexplicably, it is this year’s highest-ranking new entrant.
2) 1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme coupe—this post is #1 all-time (over 5,700 views), and repeats at number two for 2025. Popularity when new does not always equal collectability now, and Hagerty has yet to track the values of “civilian” (non-Hurst/Olds, 442) eighties Cutlass Supreme.
1) 1980 Pontiac Sunbird Sport Hatch—up nine slots this year (top five all-time with over 4,100 views). Perhaps the salient example of my rarity theory—any first-generation Sunbird coming up for sale is now a rare sight.
Five posts that did not make it into the top ten in 2025 after doing so in 2024 were the 1983 Honda Civic S hatchback coupe (still the best performing Asian vehicle at #12), the 1984 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z hatchback coupe, the 1985 Chevrolet C20 Suburban Silverado SUV, the 1988 Mercury Cougar XR-7 coupe, and the 1989 Buick Park Avenue Ultra sedan. The top European car for 2025 was the Jaguar XJ6 Series III, at #11. An entry coming on strong at the end of 2025 was a recent post on the 1980 Porsche 911 SC coupe.
Thanks to all who viewed this blog in 2025!
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