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How Porsche Killed The Last Great GT Racing Era At Le Mans
There was a time when supercars raced at Le Mans , when the fastest road cars in the world competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Here's the story of how the Porsche 911 GT1 killed the series and...
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Mclaren's F1 GTR Wasn't Supposed To Finish Before The Customer Cars
McLaren promised not to have a factory team competing against their customers at the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans. Then came Ueno Clinic and Paul Lanzante , things changed, and McLaren’s team ended up...
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The Porsche 911 Turbo Was The Nissan GT-R Of Its Day
A car with pedestrian roots beating the established purebreeds — this is the story of the current Nissan GT-R and the Porsche 911 Turbo before it.Read more...
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The First Car To Be Repo'd Was Also The First Car In A Police Chase
One of my personal crusades is to raise awareness of the fact that Mercedes-Benz did not invent the car like they claim to, and that automobiles have been around far longer than most people realize —...
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What Would These Famous Pre-Automobile People Drive?
It’s a holiday weekend coming up, and most of us are already planning our drunken bender logistics, so all actual productive thought is long gone. So let’s do something goofier with our brains as we...
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[A batch of MGAs being prepared for dispatch to the United States.
[A batch of MGAs being prepared for dispatch to the United States. Only complete cars are sent to this important market, and the method of packing illustrated here makes the best use of the cargo...
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America Had A Miata Before The Miata Was A Miata
I decided to take a little break from my annual Fourth of July marathon lovemaking session with a very special and majestic bald eagle to talk to you about an American car that I think deserves more...
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The Greatest Formula One Story You've Never Ever Ever Heard
This isn’t a story about a big-budget Ferrari or McLaren. This is the inside look of a car designed in a bedroom, built in a shed, and paid for with beer money. It is the greatest F1 story you’ve...
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Fiat Made A Female Terminator Long Before Schwarzenegger Met The T-X
How do you sell a premium supermini designed by the same guy who did the DeTomaso Pantera one year after the world realized Judgement Day is upon us? Fiat went with a Marilyn Monroe wannabe sexbot, of...
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How Subaru Got All-Wheel Drive
Today Subaru is known for having all-wheel drive and... uh... well, they’re known for having all-wheel drive. That’s for sure. But where did this all start? Well, it all goes back to a power company,...
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This Photo From 1878 Is Likely The First Picture Of A Racecar
See that big, ungainly mass of wheels and boiler and smokestack there? That beast is the direct ancestor to every hyper-advanced F1 car, every NASCAR brute, every rallycross hot hatch, every racecar...
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The First Lada Was Way More Than Just A Re-Badged Fiat
I’m sure many of you think the Soviets simply copied the Fiat 124 to create the Lada 1200 and all its numerous siblings, but now that we bought one , it’s time to show you how far that is from what...
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Up Close With The 'First' Rear-View Mirror And Two Secret Facts About It
If you read any of my posts last week, you may know I was in Indianapolis setting up my Lancia-controlled-huge-Pole-Position installation. While I was there, I was lucky enough to get a quick look in...
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Let's Tour The VW Autostadt Museum So You Can See How Clever It Is
The massive VW factory at Wolfsburg is nothing like I imagined. Sure, the building itself is familiar enough from old pictures, long massive brick blocks sprawling under four massive smokestacks. But I...
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That Victorian-Living Couple Is Just Playing Dress-Up Until They Get A Real...
It seems like everyone’s talking about that woman who fired up her Difference Engine and keyed in a long, self-satisfied story about how she and her husband live like it’s 1880. That’s fine by me. But,...
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The Ten Most Ingenious Cheats In Automotive History
Amid the VW dieselgate shitshow we wondered about the other automotive cheaters who nearly got away. Thankfully, you, our readers gave us the answers. Why take the long way around when you could cheat...
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Volkswagen's History Of Emissions Deception Dates Back To The 1960s
We’re still in the throes of Dieselgate , that smoky, messy tale of Volkswagen’s disturbingly clever gaming of the EPA’s testing and emission regulations. But it’s not Volkswagen’s first time playing...
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The Real Story Behind The Nazis And Volkswagen
We’ve been talking about Volkswagen a lot lately, for pretty obvious reasons . And pretty often in all this talking, we’ve encountered a lot of references to VW’s past, specifically the idea that the...
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Did Some Unknown Rando Invent Stop-Start Technology In 1969?
I think, over the course of a number of posts, we’ve established a few crucial things: first, my bowels are so regular the atomic clock people at the US Naval Observatory occasionally use them for...
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When Honda Gave GM One Of History's Most Amazing Smackdowns
This is a story of hubris, determination, emissions, an Impala, and, of course, the amazing Soichiro Honda. It's a reminder that innovation can beat strength, and that the most defining characteristic...
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