Did you know the Volkswagen Passat is 40 years old this year? I know! The current model doesn’t look a day over 5.
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Celebrating 40 Years Of Cars Sometimes Called The Volkswagen Passat
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This Is The Craziest Minivan I've Ever Seen
Of course it's French, glad you've asked! Meet the De La Chapelle Route, available with a Jaguar V12... or a Mercedes V8 with 326 horsepower. It is the ultimate upscale minivan experience.
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The Inventor Of The Rotary Engine Was A Nazi Nutjob
The guy who invented the rotary engine was a Jew-hating militaristic Nazi who was so ardently fascist he got thrown out of his own party, twice
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GM's Forgotten Mid-Engined Zagato Cadillac Is Amazing
The NART Cadillac Zagato was the most awesome Eldorado Mark VII ever built. Here's what happened.
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The Man Behind Buick Was The Genius Behind White Bathtubs
Just try and picture a world without these two things: white bathtubs and boattail Rivieras.
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Ten Things To Know About The Man Who Beat The Veyron To 250+ MPH
Gale Banks is one of those people who's well-known in certain specialized circles, but still not as recognized as he deserves in the general auto-adoring population. Banks has a great many claims to fame, and vast, complex articles could be written, but let's start with this batch of remarkable achievements.
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Did Ronald Reagan And Margaret Thatcher Conspire To Kill The DeLorean?
The DeLorean DMC-12, despite its "Back To The Future" buzz and scintillating stainless steel skin, never became the success some thought it destined for and the last to save it was mysteriously interrupted. Did the Reagan White House guide the British government to let the company die so it could entrap its creator in an FBI-run drug smuggling bust?
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See The First Ford Mustang Die And Come Back To Life
In April 1964, Gail Brown was a 22-year-old Chicago elementary teacher who needed a new car. Like a lot of young people, the brand new Ford Mustang caught her eye. After trading a 1958 Chevy for $400 and borrowing the rest from her parents, she bought a Skylight Blue convertible with a 260 cubic inch V8 on April 15.
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Dead Animal + Enzo Ferrari = Prewar Racing
This is not Enzo Ferrari with a dead rabbit. It's Luigi Arcangeli, who slayed the animal with his Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 in Monza, 1931, not long before he met his own death at the wheel of an Alfa Romeo Tipo A.
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The Peugeot 404 Record Car Is Not An Error
That's right, it's a monoposto diesel record car. Back in 1965, diesels weren't the torquey mpg champions we have today. They were weak, noisy, and smokey. Still, I would take this Peugeot for a ride any day.
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This Video Shows How Little Car Ads Have Changed Over The Decades
Every weekend, we look back at car ads from the past and rediscover what it's taken to sell cars over time.
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A Few Special Alfa Romeo GTVs Came With A V8
Back in the day, you could have your Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV with a 2.0-liter inline four or later a 2.5-liter V6 producing 160 horses. But a German importer had something special in mind, and the Italians delivered.
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The Mostly Glorious History Of BMW's M Cars In One Cool Chart
The BMW M cars have kind of a fascinating history. They started back in the late 1970s with roadgoing versions of pure racing cars like the original M1
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This Lamborghini Came With A TV And A Minibar In 1970
I'm sure the 1970 Paris Motor Show was worth visiting for all the French goodness it had to offer, but the most desirable piece of brilliance must have been the Espada show car, specially prepared for the event by Bertone.
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Land Speed History Is Rapidly Disappearing. Can We Save The Salt Flats?
For nearly 100 years the Bonneville Salt Flats has been the ultimate test for man and machine. Fearless gear-heads such as Art Arfons, Craig Breedlove, and Burt Munro drove their way to legend status here. Many other greats died trying. Today, lovers of the Bonneville Salt Flats fear it's disappearing.
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The Patent For The Gas-Powered Car Is 118 Years Old Today
On November 5th 1895, U.S. Patent No. 549,160 was awarded to a Rochester attorney named George Selden for what was essentially a gasoline powered car.
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This Is A German Supercar You Don't Remember
This is the Zender Vision 3. Hans-Albert Zender had six four-wheeled visions in the eighties. This appeared on the scene around the same time the Ferrari F40 did. It also remained a prototype.
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In the 1920s, Mobile Traffic Court Brought the Judge to You
Remember the last time you got pulled over for speeding? The cop slowly walked up behind your car, gave you a lecture about how the rules keep us all safe, and then handed you a ticket for a gajillion dollars.
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Nissan's NSX-Fighter That Never Was
Nissan doesn't have a supercar like Honda's NSX or Toyota's LFA. What they have instead is something that can beat most supercars, the GT-R. That's nice, but imagine if these two MID4 prototypes would have made it into production.
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This Is The Star Of The Los Angeles Horseless Carriage Show
Our pals over at the Petersen brought over a bunch of treats from their collection for everyone who's sick of new cars. And in that batch of old lovelies was the oldest lovely of them all: a 1900 Smith. It's the oldest car at the show, and the most local as well: it was built right here in downtown LA.
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