Die kleinen Freuden Es ist eine Demütigung. Dabei hatte man es schon wirklich wirklich eilig von der Fünf in die Sechs zu reißen, schließlich ging es leicht bergauf und der hinterherfahrende Audi saß...
Photo by Brian W. Scheller. Over the last 20-plus years, one effort after another has been made to definitively secure Toledo’s spot as the spiritual home of the Jeep with a permanent museum dedicate...
Photos by David LaChance (left) and the author (right). You’ve surely heard by now that the FCA (Fiat-Chrysler) and PSA (Peugeot-Citroen) merger is on like Donkey Kong. How did this come about, you a...
Hochzeit im Himmel Und dann ging es sehr flott. Kaum war die Ankündigung draussen, dass FCA und PSA miteinander über eine mögliche Fusion sprechen, kam auch die Vollzugsmeldung; da darf man davon aus...
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of The Italian Job. While Butch Cassidy might have been king of the box office in 1969, Charlie Croker was the real anti-hero for lovers of cars and capers. Wit...
There is something both mythical and magical about Lingotto. Fiat didn’t just bring Detroit to Turin when this massive five-story factory was finished in 1922. They completed it with true Italian sty...
Carlo Abarth, posing with a selection of Abarth models. Images courtesy FCA. It’s fitting that a scorpion adorns the badge of European performance brand – and current FCA subsidiary – Abarth. Not onl...
Janet Guthrie at Indianapolis in 1976. Photo courtesy IMS. Founded in 1939, the Automotive Hall of Fame — today located in Dearborn, Michigan — is dedicated to honoring those who have made a signific...
Die Grossartigen Manchmal waren sie winzig – und gewannen ihre Rennen souverän. Immer waren sie wunderbar leicht – und gewannen ihre Rennen auch deshalb problemlos. Manchmal waren sie einfach nur wun...
2019 Ford Fusion. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. It began as a trickle: In 2016, FCA killed off the slow-selling Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200, leaving the Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 as the sol...
Sergio Marchionne in December 2010. Photo courtesy FCA. Sergio Marchionne was a difficult individual to know. The son of an Italian Carabinieri, he spent his formative years in Canada, and later earn...
Automaker Alfa Romeo has a long and storied history in Grand Prix and Formula 1 racing, dating back to the 1920s. The last time the Alfa Romeo name graced a Formula 1 car in any manner was 1987, when...
Photos courtesy FCA. Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s Conner Avenue Assembly Plant is no stranger to hardship, having witnessed the decline of the spark plug business, along with the rise, fall, rebirth an...
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...
Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. Those hoping to visit the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, located on the automaker’s Auburn Hills campus, have a very narrow window to do so. Late Thursday, ...
1998 Dodge Viper GTS-R coupe. Photos courtesy FCA. It began as a design exercise by Chrysler’s Advance Design Studios in 1988, and would have ended there if not for Bob Lutz’s crazy idea to build a S...
The Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. In December 2012, the Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills, Michigan, closed its doors to the public after losing nearly $1.5 million in the pr...
All photos courtesy FCA. Pretty much as we predicted last year, FCA waited until this year to celebrate Jeep’s 75th anniversary, only going so far back as the Willys Quad and MA prototypes of 1941 in...
Summer returned to the UK for just a couple of hours this afternoon, not that I noticed as I had made my descent once more into the other-worldly void that is The Carchive. There I bravely battled fi...