Hot on the heels of ending modern Beetle production in Mexico, Volkswagen will be offering a sentimental surprise at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show: the introduction of the a near-production-ready...
1959 Oldsmobile F88 Mk III dream car. Photos courtesy GM Media Archives unless otherwise noted. Harley Earl was a big man, well over six-foot-six. He was not only physically imposing, but a towering ...
The folks at TravelEatWOD this week completed a Route 66 road trip in a wrought-iron Beetle. Their sunscreen expense must’ve matched their gas expense… * Esquire this week profiled Joe Ford, a car de...
Brochure illustrations courtesy of Bruno Vijverman and Lov2XLR8.no. Long before Chrysler fitted a turbine engine to an automobile and shortly after World War II concluded, Rover began experimenting w...
Photos by Jamie Orr. The dirt-crusted Volkswagen Rabbit that Jamie Orr picked up earlier this month has decayed so much it won’t even roll off his trailer. He suspects fist-sized rust holes lurk in i...
Photos courtesy Blackhawk Collection. It’s easy to credit (or blame, depending on your tastes) Virgil Exner for designing just about every production and concept car Chrysler built in the Fifties, bu...
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...
Photo by Brian Bennett. Following up on a prior post about VW Beetles as art cars, John Heitmann at The Automobile and American Life spent some time this week discussing the one art car that made Vol...
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...
Does anybody look back fondly on the Reliant Robin? Not Martin Gurdon, who wrote about his rather brief experience owning one for Influx: The starter motor sounded sluggish, making slow churning nois...
Photo courtesy of Worldwide Auctioneers. Worldwide Auctioneers recently announced that the company would be adding a new division focusing solely on automotive and Motorsports memorabilia. The new di...
Chris Mazzilli’s 1983 Corvette at the reveal. At the right of the frame are Rick Darling, former Corvette ride and handling engineer, and Dave McLellan, former Corvette chief engineer. Photos by Chri...
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...
Automotive American this week covered the Vintage Hot Rod Association’s Pendine Sands races, one of the U.K.’s largest celebrations of hot rods and American car culture. Tech inspection began on Frid...
The Smithsonian’s Air & Space magazine this week looked into why Corvettes and astronauts from the Right Stuff era are forever linked. After Shepard joined NASA, he struck up a friendship with Genera...
1958 BMW Isetta 300 Moto Coupe. Photo courtesy of The Owls Head Transportation Museum. Not every technological advancement is a success. Some don’t function as advertised, like the 1899 Horsey Horsel...
The first of 19 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato Continuations. Aston Martin’s Heritage Division headquarters in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, UK, has produced the first of 19 DB4 GT Zagato Continuatio...
Documented 1991 GMC Typhoon prototype for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is a 1991 GMC Typhoon Prototype, 1 of only a few built by PAS (Production Automotive Services) who ...
A 1926 Duesenberg Model A chassis. Photo courtesy of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum of Auburn, Indiana, recently received a large and very ...
Pair of 1984 Shadow MVS prototype military vehicles for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Two Shadow MVS Prototype Vehicles for Sale From the famous Shadow Racing Team involved in ...
Photos by Roy Trahan, via National World War II Museum, unless noted otherwise. Seventy-five years ago today, thousands of troops came ashore in the Normandy landings via LCVP Higgins boats, built fr...
Ian Callum pilots a Jaguar at the Mini Miglia 2015. Photo courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Ian Callum was 14 years old when he penned a letter to Jaguar, declaring his desire to design sports cars for the...
One-off 1952 Sterling Stein for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A Pingel designed all-steel bodied two seat open roadster, built in 1952, and a survivor over time. It never had t...
Photo courtesy the owner. For the short period of time that the Fageol Supersonic existed as the Fageol Supersonic, it wowed the world. All ray gun spaceship cool and unlike anything else on the road...
Brooks Stevens’s Sceptre concept, designed for Studebaker. Photo courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. From its start as a manufacturer of horse-drawn wagons to its demise as an independent automaker compet...