Disney press photo. At the height of General Motors’ dominance throughout the middle of the 20th century, executives rarely missed the opportunity to go all out at major expositions and even created ...
Intelligenzfläche Der i3 und i8 von BMW waren wie der Griff zum Spülkastenkettenzug. Die Bayern haben viel Pionierarbeit geleistet, aber. Was mit den beiden innovativen Carbon-Autos begonnen wurde, s...
All photos courtesy of Jeep. Startup electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian made recent news by officially confirming a tank turn mode in its upcoming R1T pickup (it will also come on the R1S SUV). It’...
Image courtesy Federation Internationale Vehicules Anciens. With attendance on the decline and a stable of noteworthy but ancient vehicles in a royal/imperial palatial setting, France’s Musée Nationa...
1938 Buick Y-Job Concept Car. Photos courtesy GM Media Archives. Opened in October 2014, the Audrain Automobile Museum in Newport, Rhode Island, quickly established itself as one of the premier autom...
1953 Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM Superflow IV. Photos by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding and Company. Launched in 1953, the Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM ( Competizione Maggiorata, or competition...
Lo-Res Car Sculpture by Rem D Koolhaas / United Nude. Photos courtesy Rem D Koolhaas / United Nude. “Modern cars all look alike,” is a complaint we often hear from readers, but what if a pair of desi...
Ausbrechen Gut fünf Jahre ist es her, dass sich Citroën neu zu definieren begann. Sich mehr den Kunden zuzuwenden, versprachen die Franzosen, ausserdem sollten die Fahrzeuge wieder komfortabler werde...
Das Frauen-Auto Es war immerhin einmal ein anderer Ansatz in der von Männern so sehr dominierten Automobil-Branche: Ab 2001 durfte sich ein Team, das ausschliesslich aus Frauen bestand, bei Volvo Ged...
Schöne Kombis heissen… Gerne blicken wir auf ältere Volvo Concept-Cars zurück, heute präsentieren wir den VCC (Versatility Concept Car), der 2003 auf dem Genfer Auto-Salon vorgestellt wurde. Ein schö...
Zu früh Manchmal, so denken wir, lohnt es sich auch, auf Concept-Cars zurückzublicken, die noch gar nicht so alt sind. Denn da gab es Ideen, Gedanken, die gar nicht mal so schlecht waren. So stolpert...
Tucker Carioca rendering by Thom Taylor, courtesy Rob Ida Concepts. Preston Tucker viewed failure as a necessary milestone on the road to success. A year after a jury found him not guilty of charges ...
Ford’s Cougar II concept on display in Dearborn in 2017. Photo by Barry Kluczyk. For our purposes, the word “lost” needs to be defined. Usually, “lost” is a descriptor applied to an object that no on...
Classic Mini Electric concept, which debuted at the 2018 New York International Auto Show. Photos courtesy MINI. Battery electric cars don’t typically generate much interest among enthusiasts, so aut...
Die Genfer Hypercars Im dritten Teil unseres Blicks auf Genf dreht sich alles um das Unerreichbare. Für den ersten Teil unserer Berichterstattung über den Genfer Automobilsalon ist Chali angereist, h...
Frisch interpretiert Den Versuch, die Geschichte der originalen Maserati Tipo 60 und 61, von denen zwischen 1959 und 1961 (wahrscheinlich) 22 Exemplare gebaut wurden, soll hier gar nicht erst unterno...
Less common than they once were, concept cars have traditionally been developed by automakers to judge public reaction to possible new models or new technologies. Here, Mac’s Motor City Garage looks ...
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...
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 – ...
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...
Osterhasen Bald ist wieder Ostern. Und immer zu Ostern haut Jeep ein paar coole Concept-Cars raus, die dann an der traditionellen Moab Easter Jeep Safari gezeigt werden. Das Jeep-Treffen in der Wüste...
Volkswagen operates two museums in its home town of Wolfsburg, Germany: The ZeitHaus and the Stiftung. The ZeitHaus stands out as the most visited automotive museum in the world, but the Stiftung is ...
Visiting the official Saab museum in Trollhattan, Sweden, shouldn’t be taken for granted. The museum was on the brink of shutting down for good when Saab collapsed a couple of years ago, and it would...