For an automotive nameplate that has, for much of its life, been positioned as a sensible, blue collar one, Chevrolet sure has built a heaping butt-ton of performance models. Names like Nova SS, Chevelle SS,...
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Launching a new car or truck is an absolutely monumental undertaking, more monumental than average person can comprehend. From the market researching to the designing, engineering, testing, government certification, and marketing, there’s a lot of...
Time, the cliché claims, waits for no man. Yet there are many occasions where man has declined to wait for time, being too far ahead of the curve, if you will. The history of the...
Throughout the first half of the 1980s, Volvo was basically the Sunday school teacher of the automotive world. Its 240 and 740/760 series of sedans and station wagons were boxy, rear-drive safety cages that, aside...
The first muscle car era is looked upon fondly by both gearheads who lived through it and those of us who came along after it. Consequently, Detroit has spent much of the last decade catering...
It used to be that the inline-six was the internal combustion engine layout jack-of-all-trades. You’d see big, long-stroke ones powering trucks of all shapes and sizes, small and high-strung ones propelling sports cars, and medium-sized...
The Mercedes-AMG C63 Sedan, while no longer propelled by a naturally-aspirated truncheon-with-nails-driven-through-the-tip of a V8, is still an almighty example of the German compact (Can we still call it that, what with the CLA45 existing...
Oh, high performance station wagons. Can you be any more awesome? Well, if you ask most tuners, the answer is a resounding “Yes!” And Schmidt Revolution – the divisionof Volker Schmidt GmbH based in the...
Throughout the first half of the previous century, pocket-sized toy cars were few and far between. That changed in 1953 when the British manufacturing firm Lesney Products introduced its first Matchbox vehicles. The idea came...
Every new car launch is fraught with anticipation inside the walls of its maker. Odds are it will find a modicum of success, but there’s always the looming specter of it failing to rub the...