Carspotting

Today’s car companies love to tout ideas of modular platforms, where you could stick any kind of body on one…

Cars today are on sale, virtually unchanged, for years on end. At best they’ll get a light refresh midway though…

The original Mazda RX-7 was a masterpiece. The final Mazda RX-7 was a work of art, and remains one of the most…

We went out to Gowanus in Brooklyn to go looking for some of the wonderful old cars street-parked in the…

One of the reasons why I like going carspotting is the juxtapositions you find completely by chance. In this case,…

If your dream is of driving to the limit on a twisting road course, there is no car closer to that ideal than an…

Picture this: you are walking down the sidewalk in Manhattan, no real destination in mind, sipping your coffee…

Sometimes it is worth acknowledging the cars that live street-parked lives do not have it easy. You know, the ones…

For years, the first-generation Lexus IS was a wannabe BMW with a weird clock dashboard. But slowly, surely, the car…

It was not the first Corvette, or the most powerful, or the fastest. But the ethos of the Corvette, style over…

This is going to sound extremely alternate-universe for a second but in the midst of the 1970s, Americans bought…

Today it’s not hard to think of Japanese auto companies being periodic specialists in high-revving, fun, little…

In the late 1850s, the third-largest “German” city in the world was New York, as noted by the Lower East Side…

Maybe there’s one in your town. There sure is one in mine. A maroon Nissan NX2000, parked over by where the houses…

When the Wolff-Alport Chemical Company was refining rare earth elements in the 1940s and 1950s, it did the…

Unless they live there, not a lot of New Yorkers interact with Greenpoint. Only one subway goes there, and it…

This week on Carspotting we went looking for the famous 1950s Studebaker that still parks on the street on the Upper…

Catch the Q Train south from Manhattan and (depending on the state of the MTA that day) in not too long you’ll get…

The original Audi TT was one of the most un-altered, un-compromised designs to reach showrooms in the modern era.…

The glory days of hipster Williamsburg are long gone, the Manhattan money having moved in years ago. But the old…