To get perspective on the diversity and unabashed greatness of the era, your author took three wildly different products from 1979 out for a spin. Chris Stark In July of 1979, a beleaguered Jimmy ...

Building cars is a pretty global affair these days. Everybody seems to have a factory everywhere, and even tiny specialist automakers source major components from overseas. Sixty years ago, it wasn’t ...

Sajeev wrote in a recent Piston Slap: “I’d pay a lot to turn back the clock and have wiper blades with replaceable refills. I am no fan of being locked into an ecosystem of paying more money for even ...

A month ago, we published a list of the cheapest V-12 classics you can buy. On it were cars such as the Jaguar XJ-S and XJ-12, the Ferrari 400 GT, the Lincoln Zephyr, the Mercedes-Benz SL600, BMW’s ...

I keep hoping to run across a Matador Barcelona sedan or Ambassador Brougham station wagon one of these days, but so far, no dice. However, it was really easy to see today’s featured Reagan-era woody ...

McLaren Automotive is “about to embark on the most exciting British automotive story in decades,” thanks to a merger with an EV startup that has yet to produce a single car. You probably won’t have ...

In the fall of last year, Yuki Nakajima, executive vice president of Toyota, confirmed the rumors: It was time for the decades-buried argument to begin again. That argument is, of course, whether you ...

In 1967, when Peter Monteverdi returned Switzerland to the automotive manufacturing map, the world had Enzo Ferrari to thank, yet again. In company with Ferruccio Lamborghini and Giotto Bizzarrini, ...

You can usually tell how well a motorsports event is doing by the title—the more sponsors, the healthier the event. This would suggest that the 26th running of the annual Grassroots Motorsports $2000 ...

Few companies are as proud of their heritage as Ferrari. The brand launched its first car, the V-12-powered 125 S, in 1947, and it’s been all uphill from there. Over the past 78 years, Ferrari has ...

There’s something about a car with a wood body that makes people smile. In a world of high-tech metal-and-plastic vehicles, real varnished wood on the outside of a car has an intimate, artisanal feel.