People often complain that those gorgeous and slippery concept cars that automakers create to tout their brand vision and design prowess get watered down to weak sauce by the time they reach ...

Major Henry Segrave was ground-breaking – and fearless – in his bid to push the four-tonne, 23ft 6in, 45-liter Sunbeam to more than 200mph. Courtesy National Motor Museum The engines were started up ...

The economics facing the postwar car industry in the U.K. were complex and challenging. The country was nearly bankrupt, and it had to sell its manufactured products abroad in an “export or die” model ...

“It has long been the desire of Cadillac to build each year a few highly individualized cars which would possess supreme possibilities.” Now that customers will soon receive their cars, we decided to ...

Last week, this series featured a classic compact Detroit station wagon. I’ve decided to make it two wagons a row with an example of one of the best-selling small Detroit longroofs of the 1960s. This ...

Toyota is channeling the spirit of one of its coolest and most obscure hot hatches into its line-up for the 2026 model year. The brand detailed a new Corolla Hatchback FX Edition that receives a ...

Never say never—unless you’re talking about diesel as a mainstream fuel option in the U.S. We’re more likely to see wood-burning steam engines under the hood of future cars than we are ...

It had an odd appearance and an even odder name, but the obscure Electrobat electric taxicab was actually responsible for a number of automotive firsts. It was likely the first commercially successful ...

At the tail end of the 1990s, in a lonely gas station in the middle of the Nevada desert, John Hennessey was filling up his Dodge Viper 650R. The 650R, an all-motor, 670-horsepower tuned version of ...

Long before the Miata became the world’s best-selling sports car, Mazda had a claim to building a quite prolific car in this sector with the original RX-7. Offered from 1979 to 1985, the sleek coupe ...

The average April transaction price for new vehicles—which measures not a vehicle’s sticker price, but how much buyers actually pay—is $47,462. But, in a story from a week ago, Kelly Blue Book said ...

Germany’s acclaimed Audi-enhancer ABT is to build 30 Ur-Quattros with an array of updates that more than double the output of the Eighties original. It’s actually not Hans-Jurgen Abts’ first foray ...