History is littered with moments in which things that were considered pure, sacred and perfect just the way they were were either desecrated or improved upon (depending on how resistant to change you are) in...
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In early 1957, Jaguar had a bit of a dilemma: It had a whole bunch of D-Type race cars (in various states of completeness) sitting in its inventory, yet it had made the decision to...
When Toyota birthed the Lexus brand in 1989, its aim was to knock the established European and American luxury brands off their perches with a quintessentially Japanese combination of refinement, reliability, and value. Notice how...
When locked in a life-and-death struggle, you don’t act like it’s business as usual, do you? Or “phone-it-in” when wrestling the force or entity trying to kill you? Of course not. The same has often...
Ah, the minivan. It is an exceptionally user-friendly, eminently practical car-based carrier of people and stuff. It is also a seven-seater (give or take) beacon to the rest of the world, signaling that you’ve abandoned...
When it comes to ultra-luxury cars, the British appear to be the current world leaders. Although they are both presently owned by German automakers, the current offerings of Bentley and Rolls-Royce are nevertheless the products...
The phrase “racecar for the street” has been overused to such a ridiculous degree that it has lost just about all of its meaning. All the rally and touring car racing homologation specials, umpteen-hundred horsepower...
If you wind the clock back to last weekend, you’ll see that we ran a feature on a 1987 Buick Grand National for sale on Long Island. We explained how the GN came to be...
Most of you probably know that Lamborghini got its start building tractors, and that it was a spat that founder Ferruccio Lamborghini got into with Enzo Ferrari over problems the former was having with one...
The Dark Ages – during which there was little to no advancement in Western civilization, science and culture – are widely agreed upon by the history community to have lasted from roughly the 5th century...