Mazda’s latest MX-5 Miata almost went retro
The Japanese ND design proposal (R) honored the design of the original Miata. Photos courtesy Mazda USA. The fourth-generation MX-5 Miata takes Mazda’s Kodo design language into new territory. It’s m...
The Japanese ND design proposal (R) honored the design of the original Miata. Photos courtesy Mazda USA. The fourth-generation MX-5 Miata takes Mazda’s Kodo design language into new territory. It’s m...
Jaguar’s E-type Zero. Photos by Ronan Glon, unless otherwise noted. Beginning in 2040, Britain is poised to ban the sale of all new gasoline- and diesel-powered automobiles and vans. While the rules ...
Rob Ida’s Tucker Torpedo body. The wooden buck was based upon a 3D scan of the original scale model. Images courtesy Rob Ida unless otherwise noted. Before there was a Tucker 48, there was a Tucker T...
Images courtesy of Bonhams and the Hemmings archives Saab fans from around the world have traveled to the Saab Car Museum in Trollhättan, Sweden, to see the “UrSaab,” or the original Saab car prototy...
Carhenge, by Chris M. Morris. The U.S. is currently in the grip of eclipse mania, as the first visible solar eclipse in nearly a century will cut a swath from Oregon to South Carolina on Monday, Augu...
2004 Shelby Cobra Concept. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company. In the 1960s, Carroll Shelby and Ford were indelibly linked, but the relationship had soured by the mid-1970s. After a few years of lend...
Photos by Per-Borge Elg. Wealthy Swedes have long preferred American cars. Sweden’s largest auto manufacturer, Volvo, capitalized on that fact with such series as the postwar PV 444 and PV 544, which...
1968 Jeffords AMX-R. Photo by the author. We tend to think of nostalgia as something we do in the here and now, not in the past – after all, the past is, by definition and by logic, what we’re nostal...
Ford Cougar II concept. Photo by Barry Kluczyk. In a rare display outside of its climate-controlled cocoon, the Cougar II show car – one of Ford’s three “X-Car” concepts built in the early Sixties – ...
All images courtesy of Porsche AG Porsche AG today resembles very little the company from 50 years ago. Instead of making just sports cars, the Volkswagen-owned operation makes a ton of money by sell...
Ad courtesy of Roger Peroutka. Rarely have auto manufacturers had advertising created to showcase the talent of their engineers, and the concept cars they built. But this ad from 1952 showcases two G...
SEAT 600 BMS concept. Photo courtesy SEAT. Volkswagen’s Spain-based SEAT division has announced plans to introduce a concept car named 600 BMS. As its name implies, the 600 BMS will celebrate the ori...
Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. In November 2016, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) announced that the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, located on the automaker’s Auburn Hills campus, would...
Safety equipment was minimal, the pits were dirt, and the grills were constantly aflame. A recent photo essay on Native Customs looks at the drag racing scene in one small town in Brazil, which remin...
Photos courtesy Paul Schilperoord and Lorenz Schmid. These days it looks more like a child’s drawing of a genericar come to life with its inartful blend of boxy body and round hood, but a pair of Eur...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Both were built to entice the general public into buying a Ford Mustang. Both have gone 50-plus years without a restoration. And both...
There is much misunderstanding in jeep histories about testing at Holabird. The torture tests there were more or less legendary at the time, and always provided dramatic footage for the newsreels or ...
Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. The Aston Martin brand dates to 1913, and the company produced its first automobile in 1915. Its modern lineage, however, beg...
Photos courtesy Hollywood Wheels. History has a way of blurring details, particularly when exact records are lacking. Take the Ghia-bodied Chrysler Special models of the early to mid-1950s by way of ...
GM’s CERV I. Contemporary photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Developed in 1959 as a racing car disguised as an “engineering research vehicle,” GM’s CERV I remained part of the automaker’s collection un...
Vanguard Roadster. Photos by Kurt Ernst and Jim O’Clair. Since bottoming out in 2010, the U.S. motorcycle market has begun a gradual climb back to pre-recession sales numbers, but 2015’s 500,000 sale...
Photos courtesy of the Historic Vehicle Association. It’s hard to think of a car built in the closing years of the 19th Century as “futuristic,” but the 1895 Benton Harbor owned by the Antique Automo...
In the mid-Seventies, photographer Langdon Clay roamed the streets of New York City snapping photos of the cars parked along the city’s streets. More recently, he’s published a book featuring the bes...
Sebring 1966: Big Ed, driven by Ken Miles and LLoyd Ruby, makes a night pit stop. Images courtesy of Ford Motorsport History. Ford’s GT40 coupes were once the scourge of racing circuits across the Un...
Hackaday, which normally focuses on Arduinos and other hardware hacking projects, recently examined the Lotus Seven and decreed it one of the most hackable cars. It’s always encouraging when the DIY/...