Image courtesy Google Street View. Plenty of moving parts have gone into the negotiations behind a massive land swap deal between Wayne County and the City of Detroit, but if everything works out, th...
Date: circa 1960s Location: Detroit, Zoo, Detroit, Michigan Source: Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections What do you see here?
Date: circa 1964 Location: Detroit, Michigan Source: via The Old Motor What do you see here?
AMC’s Plymouth Road headquarters in July 2009 (left) and October 2016 (right). Images courtesy Google Street View. Despite earlier discussions entertaining the possibility of demolishing the Detroit ...
Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Last month, six-year Woodward Dream Cruise sponsor Chevrolet ended its relationship with the annual rolling celebration of the American muscle car, temporarily leav...
Fisher Body Plant #21. Photo by Andrew Jameson. Despite the date set for the end of production at Fisher Body Plant #21 in Detroit – April Fools Day, 1984 – General Motors executives were serious abo...
Photo courtesy PackardPlantProject on Instagram. Three years after a real estate developer bought the remains of Detroit’s Packard plant with grand ambitions – and nearly 63 years after Packard vacat...
The Ford Piquette Avenue plant, one of the beneficiaries of the MotorCities National Heritage Area. Photo courtesy FordPiquetteAvenuePlant.org. A decades-long effort to preserve some of southeastern ...
Date: circa 1955 Location: I-94 and M-10, Detroit, Michigan Source: gsgeorge on skyscraperpage.com What do you see here?
Date: circa 1958 Location: M-10 near Warren Avenue overpass, Detroit, Michigan Source: gsgeorge on skyscraperpage.com What do you see here?
Wenn‘s Euch primär um die Neuvorstellungen von Mercedes auf der NAIAS 2017 geht, dann scrollt schnell weiter runter, etwa bis zur Mitte dieses Textes. Dort findet Ihr alles Wesentliche zu den Autos, ...
What’s up? «radical» besucht ja keine Auto-Messen mehr, mit Ausnahme von Genf, doch das ist ja auch unser Heimspiel. Dafür, also, nicht für Genf, sondern für das Fernbleiben, gibt es einige gute Grün...
What’s the likelihood of running across your first car? If it’s something as durable and as distinctive as Steve Rall’s 1949 Packard, probably not that low. The Lincoln Journal-Star tells the story o...
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...
Photo by Shawn Wilson. Of all the cities in the world important to automotive history – Turin, Stuttgart, Indianapolis, Coventry, Yokohama – the Automotive Hall of Fame currently resides in Dearborn,...
Photo by Mike Boening. Along with art galleries, a nightclub, apartments, and a spa, the group behind the redevelopment of the former Packard plant in Detroit may also include a museum dedicated to P...
Greg Lynn’s “Center for Fulfillment, Knowledge, and Innovation.” Image via Greg Lynn FORM. While a Peruvian developer cleans up the former Packard plant in Detroit and readies it for its next iterati...
Photos courtesy Chevrolet. The Chevrolet Camaro made its public debut on June 28, 1966, so it’s fitting that Chevrolet chose June 28, 2016, to announce a series of Michigan events commemorating the 5...
Images via MotorCities National Heritage Area, Walter P. Reuther Library. Plans for what will be Detroit’s newest park call for plenty of trees and gardens, walkways and reflection pools, even a kaya...
Image courtesy Google Street View. Despite the loss of a major financial backer for his renovation of the once-abandoned Packard plant in Detroit, owner Fernando Palazuelo said he intends to continue...
Most of the yearbook carspotting photos posted to Annualmobiles come from dealerships, but here we see The Pit Stop, a speed shop in Pasadena, Texas, with all sorts of goodies to offer. * What is a t...
Henrik Fisker Force 1 Möge die Macht mit ihm sein: Stardesigner Henrik Fisker meldet sich in Detroit mit dem Supersportwagen Force1 auf der Überholspur zurück. Nachdem Fisker mit dem Hybrid-Gleiter K...
Alles nur Tarnung? Wir haben es gestern ja schon gefragt, weil es nicht ganz verstanden haben. Also: den Lexus LC500. Warum bringt Lexus so etwas, haben sie doch jüngst erst den RC F gebracht, also e...
Sie boomen zwar überall auf der Welt. Doch nirgendwo sind Geländewagen wichtiger als in den USA. Aber ausgerechnet im Heimatland der SUV, wo VW nach der Dieselaffäre gerade ohnehin keinen leichten St...
Am Mercedes-Himmel geht ein neuer Stern auf. Denn nach reichlich Vorgeplänkel ziehen die Schwaben jetzt in Detroit das Tuch von der neuen E-Klasse. Ab April als Limousine und im Herbst dann auch wied...