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A Flamethrower Option For Your BMW Was Once A Totally Real Thing
It's pretty easy to feel spoiled by car options today. Ass-heaters and coolers, satellite-based navigation, 360° cameras, demote start, and lots more stuff that would have been sci-fi a decade ago are...
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Happy Birthday To The Father Of The Most Powerful F1 Engines
It's not only Jack Brabham's birthday this week, but also Paul Rosche's, and guess what the two of them came up with in the early eighties? The Brabham BMW BT52 with a 1.5 turbo engine that gave...
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Why We Owe The Indy 500 And Modern Interstate To A Crazy Bike Salesman
There are many individuals who deserve credit for the modern American interstate (who aren't named Dwight Eisenhower), but Carl Fisher might be the most entertaining. Excerpted from Earl Swift's "The...
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The Long Lost Lotus Breadvan Is History's Coolest Forgotten Race Car
After being off the tracks for half a century, the Lotus 11 GT 'Breadvan' came back with a speed that could beat Ferrari V12s at Goodwood. This is the inside look at Lotus's forgotten racer.Read more...
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This Unique 1954 Bentley R Type 'Gooda Special' Has iPod Connectivity
Bentley built 208 R Type Continentals between 1952 and 1955, but only one of them was turned into a proper racer by its extravagant owner. Fifty years on, the Gooda Special took on the Goodwood...
View ArticleThe First Dodge Challenger Came Out in 1959, Not 1970
The story of the first "Dodge Challenger".Read more...
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The Ten Most Old-School New Cars On Sale Today
Think all new cars suck? Don't worry, there are plenty of ones on sale with that vintage feel straight from the factory.Read more...
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When Formula 1 Raced At Over 230 Miles An Hour
This is the story of ungodly budgets, banshee engines, and a car that screamed past 230 miles an hour. It's a story of F1's fastest machines, the glory days of the V10 era. Photo Credit: Getty...
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This Is The First Cartoon To Feature Cars Ever
For a while now, I've been undertaking a long-term research project to find the first car represented in a work of art. Not a technical drawing, but as a subject in a work created for artistic...
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The Greyhound Scenicruiser Was Filled With The American Dream
Based on Raymond Loewy's original design, General Motors built 1,001 of the Scenicruisers between 1954 and 1956 for Greyhound to show the world how great an American bus can be.Read more...
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It's Not Everyday You See The Iron Lady In A Lister
The only question is, did they give her a Lister-Jaguar, or a more brutish Lister-Chevrolet? I can't tell to be honest.Read more...
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Ford's Autovision Put A TV In Your Car In 1965
Called Autovision, Ford's portable tv set was offered by Lincoln-Mercury and Ford dealers (with initial sales in the Great Lakes area) for a suggested retail price of $169.95. What a bargain!Read more...
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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...
View ArticleTwo-Tone Vans Should Really Make A Comeback
#ThrowbackThursday mit unserem @MercedesBenz Fuhrpark im Jahr #1971 - groovy, oder? ^A pic.twitter.com/kXgRByYILY — Hermes Presse (@Hermes_Presse) May 15, 2014 Read more...
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The First Mass Produced Alcohol Car Was Of Course A Fiat
With Audi's launch of an A3 powered by a brand new fuel , it's time for us to look back and talk a bit about the first series production car using ethanol. As usual, it's a Fiat from South...
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The Not-So-Famous Case Of The Opel/Citroën Ripoff
Today we're used to seeing knockoff cars from China, but back in the early decades of the automobile, some of the (now) most established names in the industry stole from one another. This is the case...
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Here's Pretty Much Every Weird Car Thing Possible In One Vehicle
Let's just go down the list: Dutch, mid-engined, amphibious, double-ended, drivable from either end, four-wheel steering, four-wheel drive. Ok, it's not rotary-engined, or air-cooled, sure, but it's...
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This Volkswagen Is A Nissan
This looks like a Volkswagen. It says Volkswagen on the back. But it's a Nissan.Read more...
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The Ten Automakers With The Greatest Racing History
From the great names today to the forgotten marques of the past, these ten carmakers have more history in competition than any others.Read more...
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This Car Was The Very First To Be Sold, Advertised, And Road Tripped
One of my personal automotive missions is to bring more attention to the very early period of automobiles. As in the hundred or so years before the usual assumed "invention" of the car by Karl Benz....
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