When I was younger (and arguably less intelligent) my friends and I dabbled in a bit of ‘urban exploring’ to supplement our automotive thrills. We’d track down old abandon buildings in the post-industrial decay of metropolitan St. Louis and venture around the properties. What we never found, though, was a legitimate…
Is This The New Volvo XC90?
Volvo just released a teaser today featuring this vehicle. Is it a new XC90 replacement?
How Much Would You Pay For A Secret Mini Found In A Dead Factory?
Silverstone Auctions will ask the very same question when this Mini Clubman from the historic Longbridge factory will go under the hammer after being lost for 30 years.
Meet Monica: The Lovely Car With A Proper Name
I always have a number of slow-simmering automotive investigative projects going, and one of those is about cars named like, well, people. Cars whose name is a normal, everyday name. Cars like the Nissan Cedric, the famous Mercedes, and even my own namesake, the Jowett Jason. I found so many I realized it'd be too…
Get Yourself A Unique Swiss-Made Maserati
The former Swiss brand Saurer was mostly known for their well-built buses, trucks and the occasional tank, but Carrosserie Saurer also had a go at improving Italian design in the eighties...
How Chrysler Lost An Exceptional Beauty At Sea
In the summer of 1956, Italy's iconic luxury cruiser the SS Andrea Doria was hit by the Swedish MS Stockholm off the coast of Massachusetts on her way to New York. She sank eleven hours later. The collision resulted in the loss of 51 lives, and a very special Chrysler never to reach the American audience.
These Are The Italian Treasures Left To Rot By Fiat In 1986
Welcome to the late eighties, at Alfa Romeo's historic Portello Factory in Milan. Fiat just took over the whole company, and the last employee was transferred to the Arese Plant in Lombardy. They left a mess.
The Secret History Of The DeLorean That Became A Lamborghini Sedan
Yesterday, I was able to give you a few details about John DeLorean's dream sedan, the futuristic DMC-24
The Proposed DeLorean Sedan Is As Coke-Tastically '80s As You'd Imagine
John DeLorean had many great ideas for keeping his (soon to become troubled) company even before the first gullwinged DMC-12 sports car left the factory in 1981. One was a bus, the other a utility vehicle, but the most exciting of them all of course was the DMC-24 sedan, which resulted in a rolling prototype created…
This Forgotten Car Should Have Been Chrysler's Corvette
What if I told you Chrysler had a modern two-seater sports car pretty much ready for production right at the time when the first Chevrolet Corvette came out, and a year before Ford introduced their record-selling Thunderbird? Well, I'm telling you that now.
