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In the early 1900s, horsepower was almost exclusively for the Gatsbys of the world. Ford’s flathead V-8, introduced in the depths of the depths of the Great Depression, changed all that. But it needed ...
We may have been doing this wrong all along. With cylinder heads, that is. Back when it all began, steam was the start—how we first captured heat energy from fuel and put it to work. More than a ...
“It has long been the desire of Cadillac to build each year a few highly individualized cars which would possess supreme possibilities.” If not for the dated syntax, this sentence could have come from ...
In the past 20 years, unless you count obituaries of pals gone behind pit wall, I’ve written rarely about cars. If it weren’t for Yugo’s anniversary and recent hints that the brand may actually make a ...
What saves the Mustang as a sports car—what has almost always saved it—is that it doesn’t take itself all that seriously. Everyone geeked out over the fact that among the optional gauge configurations ...
Beware the early years, up through ’76, as they had carburetors and a nightmare of smog equipment that was impossible to tune / maintain. Starting in ’77, the fuel injected engines began the era of ...
Meanwhile, “all the other cars in this world, all of the 2002 BMW tiis, etc., etc., you can modify all the hell you want, because in my view, a modified car that’s still on the road doing its thing is ...
Harley’s parent company AMF (American Machine and Foundry) was keen to support the ambitious project, but developing such an advanced, all-new engine alongside the updated V-twin would have stretched ...
The wheels came off in 1986. An estimated 300,000 people attended the Rally de Portugal, and swarms lined the route. When a Ford RS200 spun off the road, it plowed into the spectators, killing three ...
Mazda product planner Bob Hall, a former journalist who fully understood the sports car market, made the suggestion to upper management that the company should develop an entry-level sports car to sit ...
The mission of the subcompact Chevrolet Vega was clear from the beginning of the program in 1968: to be the best affordable small car in America, if not the world. It was designed top-to-bottom to ...