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TVR may be gone but not forgotten, and they also had the decency to go out with a bang: a violent, loud, and downright insane car called the Sagaris. More »
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Way back when the world, and certainly the automobile, was younger, things were... We don't want to argue they were better — having to adjust the fuel mixture and set the coil while you're bumping down a dirt path inadvertently eating grasshoppers surely shouldn't be romanticized too much. Still, the world did seem more adventurous in days of old, especially as cars were concerned. In 1907 an advertisement appeared in the Parisian Le Matin that read simply, "What needs to be proved today is that as long as a man has a car, he can do anything and go anywhere. Is there anyone who will undertake to travel this summer from Peking to Paris by automobile?" With those few words, the Peking to Paris Rally was born. (Oh, and the winner got a bottle of champagne.) Today the ad would have contact numbers for dozens of lawyers and more corporate sponsors than a baseball stadium. Oh, and champagne mentioned in the same breath as cars? You sir, are worse than the Kaiser! More »
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