Think, for a moment, about all the external forces that have shaped the development of the automobile, from the earliest days of the Mercedes-Benz Patent Motorwagen to the hybrid-drivetrain supercars...
Rugged cars meant to last decades and be easily repairable by just about anyone were just the ticket for Africa, thought Tony Howarth, whose 2CV-powered Africar showed promise but didn’t reach produc...
Photo courtesy of Bilweb Auctions AB Oh how we miss the days when there was a glimmer of hope that Saab would survive bankruptcy and rise again like the Phoenix concept from the 2011 Geneva Auto Show...
Benoist in a Delage. Photo courtesy Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The streets around the newly constructed Garage Banville in Paris’s 17th Arrondissement were and remain narrow, busy, and flat – ...
The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray has a mid-mounted engine, in case you haven’t been paying attention. Why? Several reasons. Let’s drive right in. First on the list is demographics. The front engi...
A 1952 Olds 98 was one of many classics I wanted to buy but didn’t for various reasons. It had a 1959 Oldsmobile engine and La Salle three-speed. The owner cursed at me and I walked. Not the one pict...
Fiberglass 1960s Bohada body for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Rare bohada body built in the 60’s to go on a TR3-4-6 chassis or a cut down vw or porsche. Carries a 88 to 90 in ...
As The Detroit News reported this week, Allan Hill, who’s called the Packard plant in Detroit home for 15 years, was recently served an eviction notice. Hill has served as an unofficial spokesman for...
Riding on a wave of successful sales figures in the 1980s, Isuzu launched the second-generation Impulse to American buyers for the 1990 model year (and launched the car in Japan as the Piazza in 1991...
Paul Walker’s role as Brian O’Conner in The Fast and the Furious movie series made him car celebrity royalty, but he was a gearhead off-camera as well. And now 21 vehicles from the late actor’s estat...
Original 1965 Citroen 2CV for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 2 CV 6 Charleston was imported to the United States in 1987 as a 1965 Model. It has remained with the same owne...
Manufacturer photo, via Alden Jewell. Spend enough time looking at the Renault Alliance – squint at it really hard, as one naturally would – and you probably won’t see much Ferrari in it. Other than ...
The Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona is one of the great cars of the ‘70s, which is ironic considering that during its development the concept of a front-engine GT car being the top dog was up for debate. E...
Photo Credit: Joe Shlabotnik There are plenty of reasons to shop for a car in Canada, even if you don’t live there, and importing a car back to the United States is easier than you think. That’s why ...
Nissan’s world headquarters in Japan is a hive of activity. Descend the escalator that leads from the foyer that connects with the parking garage, and the open floor below hums with endless activity ...
I’ll be driving the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 in a few weeks. It’s the most powerful Mustang ever, with 760 horsepower, and it comes from a long line of legendary predecessors. If there ever was...
Mechanically-sorted example of the Brazilian-market 1974 Volkswagen SP2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This SP2 is one of very few imported into the US. It spent much of its...
Images are courtesy of Mercedes-Benz. It has the distinction of being the most popular Mercedes-Benz flagship of all time: The internally designated 126-chassis Sonderklasse (Special-Class, S-Class f...
Original 1971 Vauxhall Viva for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Numbers matching, all original and original paint. This car is in time capsule condition including the original pa...
Back in 1980, Octopus Books Limited of London, England, started publishing a series of single-marque history books on a variety of automobiles. This was the time when the publishing of serious automo...