Where automotive icons live. We dive deep into the cars that shaped history, the posters on our childhood walls, and the machines that redefined performance and design.
Banned in 1978. Champion in 2022. The Fan Car Nobody Saw Coming. Under 1,000 kg. 1,000 horsepower. And a system that sucks the car to the tarmac before the motor knows it’s moving. This is what happens when a Concorde engineer forgets that something has been banned for 44 years. On 11 April 2025, a … Read more
The Popemobile: The Most Impossible Design Brief in Automotive History A car manufacturer gets a call. The client needs a vehicle that does all of this simultaneously: millions of people must see the occupant from every angle. It must withstand rifle fire at point-blank range. It must cruise at five kilometers per hour for hours … Read more
Hispano-Suiza in the Air: The Spanish Engines That Ruled the Skies of the Great War When the world’s greatest pilots chose a Spanish heart for their war machines The Engine That Changed the War In September 1914, with Europe burning in the First World War, a member of the Spanish Royal House visited the Hispano-Suiza … Read more
Karma Automotive: 146 cars a year, a CEO who’s smiling, and the play nobody is watching 146 cars. All of 2025. Worldwide. And Marques McCammon, Karma Automotive‘s CEO, goes on the record saying he’s happy with that number. Happy. You read that and think it’s a dead company that doesn’t know it yet. Desperate marketing … Read more
Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR: The Silver Monologue Nobody Could Answer Some cars win races. Some make history. And then there’s the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR, which did both in the same season and then walked away forever. No farewell tour. No victory lap. A clean slam of the door that left the motorsport world speechless and sick … Read more
Opel Speedster: The German Sports Car Built in England That Saved Lotus and Embarrassed Cars Costing Ten Times More Some cars are born with an identity crisis. The Opel Speedster is one of them. A sports car wearing a German badge, built on a British chassis, powered by an economy car engine, and priced low … Read more
Maserati: Seven Brothers, One Trident, and the Greatest Race Ever Run The family born for speed To understand Maserati, you need to start with a fact almost nobody knows: there weren’t six brothers. There were seven. Rodolfo Maserati was a locomotive driver for the Italian railways, based in Voghera, Lombardy. He married Carolina Losi, and … Read more
Chevrolet Camaro Z28 SS: Two Philosophies, One Car, and Detroit Killed It Anyway How Chevrolet spent 30 years keeping its two best ideas apart — then buried them together In 1966, General Motors had a problem with a name and a sales figure attached to it: Ford Mustang. Half a million units sold in its … Read more
Pontiac Firebird Trans Am: From the Ram Air IV to KITT, and From Hollywood to Oblivion 35 years of American attitude compressed into a screaming chicken On February 23, 1967, Pontiac launched the Firebird. Six months after the Chevrolet Camaro. On the same GM F-body platform. With the same mechanical bones — unitized body, double-wishbone … Read more
Kimera Automobili: When a Rally Driver Decides History Isn’t Over There’s a question petrolheads ask themselves in silence every time a manufacturer kills a model that marked us: What if someone with the right hands and the right reasons brought it back? Not as a museum replica. Not as a collector’s toy with untouchable carpets. … Read more
Alfa Romeo 4C: 895 Kilograms of Carbon Fiber and the Last Time Alfa Romeo Was Alfa Romeo The mid-engine sports car that proved four cylinders are enough — and that the market wasn’t ready In 2013, after years of diesel sedans, shared-platform SUVs, and broken promises, Alfa Romeo did something unexpected: they built a two-seat, … Read more
Lancia Delta S4: The Group B Monster That Killed Its Own Category The rally car that proved engineers could build machines no human could handle In 1985, Lancia unveiled a car that had no business existing. Not an evolution. Not an incremental improvement. A full-scale engineering assault disguised as a Lancia Delta. The Lancia Delta … Read more
