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.
Alfa Romeo 155: The Ugly Duckling That Won Where Nobody Expected Some cars are born as heroes. Others are born under suspicion and have to prove — on the street and on the track — that they deserve to exist. The Alfa Romeo 155 belongs firmly in the second category. It was the first Alfa … Read more
Volkswagen New Beetle RSI: The 250-Unit VR6 Monster That Predated Every R-Badged VW There is an unwritten rule in the car industry: if you build a cute, round, universally likable car — the kind that comes with a dashboard flower vase — you do not stuff a 3.2-liter six-cylinder engine inside it, bolt on all-wheel … Read more
BMW M8 E31: The Secret Supercar BMW Built, Hid in a Basement, and Denied for 20 Years In the early 1990s, a group of engineers at BMW Motorsport secretly built the most powerful car the company had ever conceived. A naturally aspirated 6.1-liter V12 producing 640 hp, carbon fiber intake with twelve individual throttle bodies, … Read more
McLaren F1: How a Napkin Sketch Became the Purest Car Ever Built In 1988, after the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Gordon Murray was waiting for a flight home. He was bored. He grabbed a notepad and sketched a three-seat car with the driver in the center. Mid-engine. No compromises. The fastest, purest car in … Read more
Alfa Romeo 147 GTA: Busso’s Final Symphony Crammed Into a Hot Hatch Some cars exist because a spreadsheet said they should. Others exist because someone in an engineering meeting lost their mind for just long enough that nobody could stop them. The Alfa Romeo 147 GTA belongs firmly in the second category. A 3.2-liter naturally … Read more
Porsche 918 Spyder: When Porsche Proved Hybrids Could Be Savage In 2013, the automotive world drew battle lines over the most absurd question in motoring: which hypercar was best — the LaFerrari, the McLaren P1, or the Porsche 918 Spyder? They called it “The Holy Trinity.” Three hybrid hypercars, launched simultaneously, each taking a different … Read more
Renault 5 Turbo 2: The French City Car That Humiliated Supercars in the World Rally Championship In 1976, a Renault engineer named Jean Terramorsi had an idea that made no practical sense. He took the Renault 5 — the best-selling car in France, the car of mothers, students, and pensioners — and proposed ripping out … Read more
Renault Clio V6: The Grocery Car That Swallowed a Minivan Engine and Became a Legend There are engineering decisions that defy logic. There are projects that should never have made it past a sketch on a napkin. And then there is the Renault Clio V6: a supermarket runabout from which someone at Renault decided to … Read more
Porsche 917: The Most Terrifying Race Car Ever Built There are fast cars, there are terrifyingly fast cars, and then there’s the Porsche 917. This is a machine that hit 390 km/h on the Mulsanne Straight in 1971. In a car with the aerodynamic stability of a garden shed in a hurricane. With brakes that … Read more
Mercedes-AMG One: The Day Mercedes Put a Formula 1 Engine in a Road Car And Almost Lost Their Minds Doing It Every major car manufacturer has made a promise at some point: “We’ll put our race engine in a road car.” Most of them are lying. Or they water it down so much that the … Read more
MG Metro 6R4: When Williams F1 Stuffed a Purpose-Built Racing V6 Inside Your Grandmother’s Shopping Car Builds & Swaps | Not Enough Cylinders A Metro. The most ordinary car in Britain. Until it wasn’t. In 1980, British Leyland launched the Austin Metro. It was the car that was supposed to save the entire British car … Read more
I Heard the GTA Spano E&D Run. I’ll Never Forget It. There are moments that don’t translate well into words. Moments where reality overtakes everything you’ve read, watched on video or imagined. Moments that shift your reference point for what’s actually possible in this country when someone has enough determination to keep going no matter … Read more
