10 Pickups You May Have Forgotten About
The 1963 Ford Cardinal—too radical for America
GM’s Powerama Celebrated All Things Diesel
Car-Toons: Animated Auto Ads through the Years
The Birth of a High-Performance Chrysler
It’s the early 1950s, and sports cars are becoming increasingly popular. Chrysler’s answer? The C-300.
Not General Motors’ Cup of Tea
Attempting to gain a manufacturing foothold in Europe, GM looks to the French and British.
The Rearview Mirror: Honda’s Do-Or-Die Moment
The car that saved Soichiro’s Honda’s childhood dream.
“A Path Filled With Hardships” – The Birth of American Honda
While Honda Motor Company’s accession as an American bestseller seems to have happened overnight, what it took will astound you.
Congress Clears the Air
How a bizarre meteorological inversion prompted the federal government to regulate air pollution.
The first luxury SUV? It wasn’t the Range Rover
Land Rover didn’t offer the first luxury SUV. That honor falls to Kaiser Jeep, which fielded the first one in 1966. Too bad it didn’t succeed.
Porsche’s first four-door sedan isn’t the Panamera
A proposed design for Studebaker became Porsche’s first sedan, until an executitve killed it. Who it was will surprise you.
How Packard could have doomed Chrysler Corporation
Imagine Packard being bought by Walter Chrysler and Charles Nash after their stints at GM. It came close to happening.
Lincoln’s Corsair is new, but the name isn’t
If Lincoln’s Corsair name sounds familiar, it should.
Why gas is sold in gallons but engines are sized in liters
Here’s why the United States is the only industrialized country in the world that still uses Imperial measurements.
For a brief spell, Fiat built cars in America
Many think that Mercedes-Benz was the first foreign automaker to build cars in America. But that honor belongs to Fiat.