For the second year in a row, the Hot Wheels Legends Tour picked one car to be immortalized as a 1:64 scale die-cast toy car at the SEMA Show. This time around, the finalists came from 20 different c...
The 2019 SEMA show is a awash in Ford Broncos. Restored, lifted, modified – whatever the flavor, they’re as ubiquitous as flat-rimmed baseball hats in the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center. So...
If you’ve read our story about the one-off 1973 Dodge Challenger presented to the winner of The Colonial, a Charles-Schwab-sponsored PGA Tour event held in Texas, you already know about how the car w...
Photos by the author. The 2019 Richmond, Virginia Folk Festival marked the 15th anniversary of a popular event that began with a three-year hosting of the national festival, featuring big names and n...
Manufacturer photos. As the popularity of minivans soared in the mid-Eighties on both sides of the Atlantic, the new-ish form factor not only inspired a wave of rethinking the basic format of the aut...
Photo credit: Dodge How does Dodge follow up last year’s SEMA show special, a restomod Super Charger with a 1,000-horsepower crate engine? By going in a completely different direction. The truck you ...
GM photos. We all had an awkward period growing up. That period was the Nineties. Geo just happened to go through almost its entire existence during the decade and, not to dunk on the designers behin...
Colani’s Utah 8. Photos via CataWiki. Just a month after designer Luigi Colani died, a number of his full-size design studies and working one-off cars – including some of his Automorrow racers design...
There are lots of interesting little details, including subtle traces of tailfins, that lend the AMP a very distinctive look. There are crease lines down the side of the body and one simulating a roc...
Visitors to the National Auto & Truck Museum in Auburn, Indiana, can walk right up to the Mustang and give it close inspection. Photo credit: Richard Lentinello If there was any engineer who had an o...
Bringing back the Milwaukee Mile As we wrote earlier this year, the push to bring professional racing back to the Milwaukee Mile has been building momentum, and Milwaukee Magazine recently checked in...
“I was not attempting to create a new genre of cars. I was attempting to harden an old Camaro enough to survive One Lap of America.” Unless you’re already familiar with Mark Stielow’s creations, ther...
Images via Museum of Modern Art. Not a single American auto manufacturer participated in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1976 exhibit dedicated to exploring the future of taxis. Conspicuous in its absence...
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...
Photos courtesy the author. The silhouette of an Airstream trailer has remained mostly unchanged since the 1950s and is thereby recognizable by most. Often described as a silver Twinkie or silver bul...
1994 Dodge Ram 1500. Photo via Chrysler Media. The 1994 Dodge Ram influenced modern truck design away from the boxy appliance look of the Seventies and Eighties and toward today’s hyper-masculine, do...
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 ...
Restored pre-production 1945 Willys CJ-2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: For sale is a Preproductin CJ2 Number 38, also referenced as experimental model 62 in Fred Coldwell’s...
very, very special… Wenn die werten Damen und Herren von den Schweizer Strassenverkehrsämtern den Begriff «Special» nur schön hören, dann kriegen sie gleich sofort einen pickligen Ausschlag. Sie stel...
Photo via GM Media. Since the Mustang first made its debut, carmakers have chased the youth market in increasingly varied ways. Then, a quarter century later, the Big Three all seemed to happen on th...
The mid-engine 2020 Corvette Stingray is an exciting twist on an old classic, but it also leaves a huge hole in the American automotive landscape. For the first time in the post-war era you won’t be ...
Photo via Colani.org. If Syd Mead were as consumed by the pursuit of aerodynamic perfection as Alex Tremulis and stripped of any and all regard for design precedent, the result would come relatively ...
Chevrolet Express. GM press photos. In January 1966, Chrysler collected the 55 Ghia-bodied turbine-powered cars it had lent out to the general public over the prior couple years; sometime after mid-A...
The Tucker 48 is rare. Preston Tucker’s struggles with funding his start-up auto company, including a fight with the SEC he eventually won, resulted in a mere 50 cars produced plus the original “Tin ...