The Amazing History of Cars That Changed the World
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The cars that became symbols, not just transportation.
The Lexus LFA looked impossible to justify in period. Now the market sees it for what it was: one of the greatest V10 supercars ever built.
One of my Radwood-style favorites is the Ford Taurus SHO. I spotted one this morning on Facebook Marketplace. It was properly scruffy, too scruffy even for me at the $2,500 price, but I still had to pause and ...
As someone who thought they knew every corner of the Countach story, every variant, every sketchy handling quirk, every design, I recently found out I was missing a piece of the puzzle. I have been deep into this ...
As we dive into the unveiling of McLaren's new masterpiece, the W1, the numbers alone are staggering: 1,275 horsepower, 1,340 Newton meters of torque, and a power-to-weight ratio of 922 horsepower per ton. On paper, these specs are ...
The McLaren F1, conceived by the legendary designer Gordon Murray, was envisioned as the ultimate driver's car . Behind this ambitious project were four key individuals at McLaren: Gordon Murray, Ron Dennis, Mansour Ojjeh, and Creighton Brown. Together, ...
I've never been much of a Bugatti fanatic; sure, the Veyron was a technical marvel that smashed records, but it never made it into any of my dream car garages. It wasn't the sort of machine I'd have ...
While talking about cars that changed the world, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention movie cars. When we discuss movie cars, a few come to mind: the DeLorean from Back to the Future , the Volkswagen Beetle ...
Picture the dawn of the motoring era: a veritable wild west of engineering, with more bizarre contraptions than you could shake a gearbox at. Yes, the early days of cars were a bonkers time-innovation ran rampant and there ...
While hanging out with Rodney in his shop, surrounded by some epic cars-a Zagato Abarth 750, a few Lotus Elans, an MG Twin Cam, some TC MGs, a Shelby 350R, and BMW 2002 race cars-it's really quite the ...