Volkswagen Bus turns 60 – Click above for high-res image gallery
Many automakers will build cars for decades and never create a product that can truly be considered a cultural icon. Few that do produce multiple such models. One of those is Volkswagen.The original Beetle/Bug/Type 1 is recognizable almost anywhere and even by people that know [...]
Hondas with dogs – Click above for high-res image gallery
Honda Japan’s oddly compelling and inherently fascinating Honda Dog website includes useful consumer tidbits such as a visual guide to how well your poodle will fit in the CR-Z’s front passenger seat. (Before you start yelling how it’s the only passenger seat, know that in Japan, [...]
Volkswagen Type 2 – Click above for high-res image gallery
Many automakers will build cars for decades and never create a product that can truly be considered a cultural icon. Few that do produce multiple such models. One of those is Volkswagen.The original Beetle/Bug/Type 1 is recognizable almost anywhere and even by people that know nothing [...]
Celebrating the art of the magazine cover – Click above for high-res image gallery
In the high-stakes game of magazine publishing, there’s one critical component that can either make or break an entire issue. What are we talking about? The cover. Get it right and an editor-in-chief can move an extra few thousand copies to [...]
Citro?n SM – click above for high-res image gallery
Well now, this is exciting. The iconic Citro?n SM turns forty years old today. First introduced at the Geneva Motor Show on March 11, 1970, the SM was incredibly advanced for its time. In fact, there are those who would argue that it’s still way ahead of [...]
Classic Mercury Tracer – Click above to watch the video after the break
“It’s peppy,” the salesman said as an enticement to buy… It’s not that the Mazda 323/Ford Laser-based first-generation Tracer was a bad car, but the Escort apparently called stronger for our own hard-earned dollar, so we drove home in a brand new 1989 [...]
1948 Norman Timbs Special is a Motor Trend Classic – Click above for high-res image gallery
We were just talking with a friend about his Volkswagen Touareg V10 TDI. “How on earth did you afford that?” is the highly sanitized version of the question we posed to him. Answer: He bought used, and then explained to [...]
2011 Audi RS5 promo footage – Click above to watch video after the jump
In what is currently raw footage but what will soon undoubtedly be slickly produced promotional material, the brutalicious 2011 Audi RS5 growls around a track and on various European roads. For a brief spell it even shares the screen with one of [...]
1939 Delahaye 165 V-12 with coachwork by Figoni et Falaschi
As if classic car fans in California weren’t spoiled enough with the annual festivities in Monterey, world-class concours in Palm Springs, La Jolla, Dana Point, Palos Verdes, and Pasadena, and first-rate museums like The Petersen and Nethercutt Collection, another incredible collection is being opened to the [...]
1962 Ghia Barris Kustom – Click above for high-res image gallery
While perhaps not a household name, there was a time when the Dual-Ghia brand was the epitome of cool. Eugene Casaroll formed Dual Motors in the 1950’s to build production versions of Chrysler’s Virgil Exner-designed Fire Arrow show cars. Casaroll worked with Carrozzeria Ghia in [...]
Back in the early 1900s, Fritz von Opel, grandson of Opel founder Adam Opel, was enamored with rocket propulsion. As the company’s director of testing and the man in charge publicity, Opel had quite an outlet to fulfill his rocket-powered fantasies. Hence, the 1928 Opel Motoclub you see above.
The example showcased so beautifully here doesn’t [...]
1937 BMW 328 Mille Miglia “B??egelfalte” – Click above for high-res image gallery
Built for the five years before WWII, BMW’s sleek 328 roadster is coveted for both its beauty and rarity. Fewer than five hundred were made, and the car featured an advanced tube frame chassis, independent front suspension and a 2.0-liter inline-6 producing 80 [...]
Classic Recreations Shelby G.T.500CR – Click above for high-res image gallery
Last year we reported that Oklahoma-based Classic Recreations had signed a licensing deal with Shelby to produce brand new versions of the 1967 Shelby GT500. At the time we only had a few renderings to show you, but the company has just released a slew [...]
Jay Leno drives a reborn DeLorean – Click above to watch the video after the break
No, Jay Leno did not travel back in time to 1985 (or 1981 when it was originally offered for sale) to drive a brand-new DeLorean. But that’s clearly a stainless steel, wedged-shaped, gullwing-doored beauty with Leno behind the wheel, so [...]
Factory Five Racing Type 65 Coupe – Click above for image gallery
The conflicts between Carroll Shelby and various kit car makers are well known and sometimes seem never-ending. Massachusetts-based Factory Five Racing has been at the forefront of the lawsuits with Shelby, and the two have been in battling it out in the courtroom for [...]
