The history behind the brans that shaped the automotive world. Origins, evolution and the moments that made them great.
COSWORTH: THE HISTORY Cosworth: The Company That Powered Half the World in Competition In competitive motorsport, there exists a name that appears on more winning cars, more championships, and more victory stories than any independent engine manufacturer in history. It’s not Ferrari. It’s not Mercedes. It’s not Honda. It’s Cosworth. A company founded in a … Read more
Porsche 911: The Most Overrated Great Car Ever Made? Let’s get something out of the way immediately: the Porsche 911 is a great car. It has always been a great car. It will probably always be a great car. But is it the greatest sports car ever made? Is it the benchmark against which all … Read more
HORACIO PAGANI: THE MAN WHO DARED TO CHALLENGE FERRARI Pagani: The Argentine Immigrant Who Built the World’s Most Extraordinary Car There are stories the automotive world doesn’t deserve, but receives anyway — gifts for those who know how to look. Horacio Pagani’s story is one of them. He wasn’t born in Maranello. He didn’t inherit … Read more
Koenigsegg: The Third Swede Nobody Mentions — Who Makes Everyone Else Look Ordinary By Not Enough Cylinders We’ve talked about Volvo. We’ve talked about SAAB. Both brands have been in the collective automotive imagination for decades. Now let’s talk about the Swede almost nobody mentions when discussing Swedish cars. The one operating in a completely … Read more
The Chevrolet Corvette: America’s Only True Sports Car The Car That Almost Never Was In 1953, Harley Earl did something that would define American automotive culture forever: he convinced General Motors to build a two-seat sports car. This was, by all accounts, insane. Americans didn’t buy sports cars. They bought sedans. Wagons. Land yachts with … Read more
TVR: The Complete History of the British Sports Cars That Hated Safety In Blackpool, an English coastal town known for its fish and chips and stag parties, a group of engineers built some of the wildest, most unpredictable, and gloriously dangerous sports cars in automotive history. TVR wasn’t a car brand: it was a manifesto … Read more
Cadillac: the Dewar Trophy, the electric starter, the V16, Le Mans in 1950, Franco’s armored Cadillac and how the Cimarron and Northstar wasted a legend.
Cadillac Escalade: a rushed Yukon rebadge to answer the Navigator, turned into a hip-hop icon, a 682-hp Escalade-V and the SUV that kept Cadillac alive.
1950s Buicks: The Chrome Harbingers of the American Dream The Golden Decade of the American Automobile If you had to choose one decade to represent the essence of the American car, it would be the 1950s. And if you had to pick one brand that encapsulated that era, it would be Buick. It wasn’t the … Read more
Audi Quattro history: only 763 original quattros reached North America, it ruled Pikes Peak, got banned from Trans-Am and left behind wagons America never got.
BMW M3 history from the 1986 E30 homologation special to the G80: the evolutions, the engines America never got, the CSL, the V8 rod bearings and the weight.
Matra: From Missiles to Le Mans – The Craziest Story in French Automotive History With racing as their calling card, Matra needed a production car that could reach a wider audience. The problem with the Djet and the M530 was that they sold in tiny numbers, partly because Matra lacked its own dealer network. The … Read more
