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...
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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...
Classic cars that have reached collector status are easy to spot because, well, they’re the ones that show up the most often and bring the most money at auctions, specialty dealerships and other sellers. But...
Almost exactly one year ago, we brought you 10 of the most tasty-as-Timbits Canadian car market curiosities ever to cruise under the maple leaf flag. Today, in honor of Cinco de Mayo (which is not,...
As large and as lucrative as the U.S. new car market has been for virtually its entire existence, pretty much every major automaker has nevertheless kept the good stuff out of our hands on at...
It’s the first full week of January, so it must be time for the Consumer Electronics Show to steam into Las Vegas. The hottest trend of the 2015 show seemed to be home connectivity (particularly...
A little over 100 years ago (December 1, 1914, to be exact), five brothers from Bologna, Italy – Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore and Ernesto Maserati – established a workshop to build automobiles and components. In...
November brings shorter days, cooler weather and a massive culling of the American turkey population. It also brings car manufacturers from far and wide here to Southern California for the Los Angeles Auto Show. We’re...
Although a great many “experts” advise against going into business with one’s siblings, there have been many occasions of brothers and sisters collaborating where the venture didn’t end in financial ruin and prolonged awkward silence...
The famous song lyric may be “I love Paris in the springtime,” but many car fans prefer the City of Light in the fall, or at least the fall of an even-numbered year. It is...