McLaren F1. Images courtesy McLaren, unless otherwise noted. It began as a conversation between McLaren’s Gordon Murray and Ron Dennis, awaiting a flight home after the 1988 Italian Grand Prix. Four ...
Photo courtesy Chevrolet Caribbean. Finding common ground helps foster connections among rivals and opponents, whatever the matter at hand. Adherents of many diverse philosophies, tenets and tribes c...
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/...
Original and unrestored 1990 Jeep Grand Wagoneer for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: absolutely beautiful original 36K (legit) mile Jeep Grand Wagoneer. It drives like it should,...
Usually, but not always, there’s a theme that holds each installment of the $5,000 challenge together. It may be cars that need assembly, or unusual finds, or cars from a particular decade, or it may...
1991 Saturn models, including the SC (left), SL1 (center) and SL2 (right). All photos copyright 2016 General Motors LLC. Used with permission, GM Media Archive. By the early 1980s, General Motors was...
‘Tis the season. That is, ’tis the season for awful B-grade (at best) horror flicks hazily recalled from staying up way too late watching basic cable. And if you think we’re talking “Christine” or “M...
Forget baking them cookies or letting them borrow your lawnmower, the best way to get to know your neighbors is by parking an old car out front for a few days, as Tim Pitt of Motoring Research recent...
Images from the author’s brochure collection. Only two years after its most recent facelift, the mid-year 1989/ 1990 Cougar got an even smoother, more aerodynamic design. This complemented the car’s ...
Everybody, it seems, has a story about how cheap cars were in the old days. From gently wrecked Ferraris, now worth millions (or tens of millions) of dollars that sold for the cost of a three-year ol...
For those of us who didn’t get to see the Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show last weekend, Mac’s Motor City Garage gathered some coverage of the annual event focused on independents and those marques abandone...
Photos courtesy Tim Cunningham. They flew. They lit up the darkness. They did not, however – could not, in fact – drive under their own power, yet they remain some of the world’s best-known Trabants ...
Images from the brochure collection of the author. An old Hyundai on Hemmings? Hear us out. Few today would question that this South Korean automaker is now a major player in the American new-car mar...
There’s something missing from this video introduction to the early 1990s Yugo Next art exhibition that took place in New York City and that was comprised entirely of old Yugos repurposed into animat...
1994 Panoz Roadster for sale. From the seller’s description: Polished aluminum body with racing green fenders Full Green leather interior The only polished alloy bodied Panoz ever built Excellent con...
From the seller’s description: This is Syclone number 1380 out of 2995 made in 1991. It came standard with the 4.3L Turbo, water to air intercooled V-6, calibrated automatic trans and all-wheel drive...
Perhaps one of the most memorable and influential ad campaigns – not just for automobiles, but of all time – was that run by DDB for Volkswagen. To get to the bottom of why it worked so well and how ...
1990 Ford Mustang GT hatchback for sale. From the seller’s description: If you’ve been longing for a Fox Body Beauty then your search is over. This 5.0 has always been garage kept and covered. The lo...
Photography by author. In the blog A brief trip down memory lane with a few vintage Atari 2600 racing video games , posted in October of 2015, I discussed some of my favorite car-based Atari games fr...
Seen this photo floating around the Internet for a while before we finally decided to dig up the backstory. According to HABU.org, the SR-71 seen in the photo – serial number 17958 – was retired in e...
Most shorty VWs rely on the reduction in wheelbase as wow factor enough, but this 1971 Volkswagen Beetle for sale on Hemmings.com used a cut-n-shut as the launchpad for a whole transformation into a ...
Toyota’s wedge-shaped MR2 got a remake for the 1991 model year, emerging as a more curvaceous coupe that carried design influences from far more exotic sports cars. Like the original, the second-gene...
Similar to the completely new tributes to four-wheel-drive vehicles of decades past that have been all the rage over the last several years, the Encore 151 was a completely new four-wheel-drive rig p...
The Dude’s 1973 Gran Torino. Photo via IMCDB.org. While it’s not considered much of a car movie, the Coen Brothers’ 1998 cult classic The Big Lebowski is one of only a handful of films to inspire fes...
One of the first runnings of the Charade circuit in France was captured in this 16-minute video from 1958 showing plenty of Ferraris Porsches, Lotii, and other interesting cars in their natural habit...