Cars You Never Heard Of

See that strange-looking car up there? It sort of looks like a phone booth landed on a pair of bicycles parked on…

First thing, allow me to apologize to you. I realize that most of our readers took a look at the Santana Ligero up…

It’s come to my attention that many people out there aren’t thinking about copper, the element with atomic number…

You know what’s an amazing feeling? When you get a new crush. And my friends, I’m delighted to inform you that’s…

My tolerance for cars that many consider ugly is abnormally high. I’m delighted by goblin-faced Citroën Amis and…

There’s a certain class of car that we almost never really see anymore, but it’s a class of car I’m particularly…

Prior to Ralph Nader’s book panning the Corvair, Unsafe at Any Speed, Chevrolet already had a plan to help make…

I feel confident saying that this is a race car—and a whole race series—you’ve never heard of because Turkish…

How do you replace a New York institution like the legendary Checker Cab? You get the help of another New York…

For the most part, car engines are pretty conservative things—the vast majority of the cars you see and drive use…

Every now and then, something really special emerges from the aether and goes up for auction, and I think this is…

The 1990s can be considered to be the start of the “modern” era of automotive design and technology: we get true…

Four-wheel drive vehicles have been around longer than you may realize; there were experiments by Joseph Diplock in…

The car market in China is currently the largest in the world, but that is a pretty recent development. What we know…

If you have tastes that appreciate more mainstream collector cars like classic Mustangs or vintage Alfa Romeos, but…

Long before Hyundai spun off their Genesis premium brand in 2015, they had long dreamed of making luxurious…

I was going to do this for yesterday, but since it was April Fool’s day I decided to hold off, since everything…

One of my prized possessions is a book from 1976 entitled Automotive Self Expression, and subtitled The Kit Car…

As I believe I’ve made quite clear, I have a nearly debilitating soft spot for strange, forgotten, usually…