Car History

The idea of an open-source car — as in a car whose plans are freely available to anyone who wants them — seems like…

Over this past weekend I sent my telepresence robot to BlinkerFest, the annual turn-signal enthusiasts’ meetup, held…

I don’t generally proclaim myself to be a skilled, or even competent, or even a non-severely untalented…

I love Subaru because it’s a case where the stranger car won out. As Mitsubishi has long given up on the Evo, it’s…

Everything about the name “Antarctic Snow Cruiser” fires up my imagination. This long-forgotten behemoth was so…

Look at the swell little wagon in the photo above. Wood grain, a four-speed manual transmission, an efficient-ish…

I have to admit, while I know that’s a fairly cumbersome headline, I really like just how much is packed in there,…

It’s a pretty common refrain among gearheads to complain about how all modern cars look the same. And, sure, you can…

I know Mercedes-Benz likes to crow about “inventing the automobile” in 1885, but we all know that’s complete…

Oh yeah, motherlovers, it’s that time again! You’re stuck indoors, you’re getting a little bored, a little randy, a…

If you ask a casual car nerd when was the real golden age of GM, you’d probably get pointed to the late 1960s or…

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

Mercedes-Benz is arguably the oldest car manufacturer still around. But did you know that its famous logo was…

When it comes to sheer madness, it’s hard to pick an automotive category more blessed with vehicular batshittery…

Being alive often means living through some genuinely horrific or at least incredibly dramatic events. Events like…

Have you ever found yourself waking up in the middle of the night wondering about whether you should buy an imported …

Go to any luxury manufacturer and you’ll find, right beside the top-tier luxury sedan, an even better one. The long…

The 1989 24 Hours of Le Mans saw not one, not two, not three, but seven factory teams competing for victory, a high…

We are now 30 years removed from the 1989 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which stands as the highest point of…

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