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.
NO CURVES, NO DOORS, NO MERCY. THE FERRARI ANTI-FERRARI, THE 512S MODULO The sketch in the corner of a Rolls-Royce blueprint Spring of 1968. Paolo Martin is 25 years old. He has just been made chief of the styling department at Pininfarina. On his drafting table, a technical drawing of the Rolls-Royce Camargue. A large … Read more
Rezvani Motors: when California decides that war is a lifestyle Picture this. You park your SUV at a Beverly Hills shopping mall. Someone walks up to the passenger door handle. They touch it. They receive an electric shock that drops them to the pavement. From underneath the vehicle, a thick smoke cloud billows out to … Read more
MAYBACH EXELERO: THE $8 MILLION CAR NOBODY KNOWS WHO OWNS There are expensive cars. There are exclusive cars. There are one-of-a-kind cars. And then there’s the Maybach Exelero. A car of which only one exists on the entire planet, built to test tyres, appeared in a Jay-Z music video, was supposedly purchased for $8 million … Read more
Automobili Estrema Fulminea — 2,040 HP Born in a WhatsApp Group During a Pandemic There’s one sure way to know if someone has what it takes. It’s not looking at how many times they’ve won. It’s looking at how many times they’ve got back up after losing everything. Gianfranco Pizzuto put $2 million into Fisker … Read more
Fisker Karma — The Car That Arrived Too Early to a World That Wasn’t Ready Some cars are born to change the rules. And some cars are born to prove the rules aren’t ready for change. The Fisker Karma was both. And it paid for it with its own existence. Think about it for a … Read more
ALPINA: 60 Years of the Strangest Partnership in Motoring There’s a question that has followed ALPINA for 60 years. A question that seems simple but hides one of the most fascinating stories in European motoring. Tuner or manufacturer? The short answer is: manufacturer. Officially recognized by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport since 1983 and certified … Read more
LANCIA STRATOS: THE CAR THAT ONLY KNEW HOW TO WIN Here is the shortest version of the Lancia Stratos story: a small Italian company begged Ferrari for an engine, built the minimum number of cars required by the regulations, and won three consecutive World Rally Championships. Then its parent company killed it — not because … Read more
Karma Doesn’t Make Cars: Why It Bought a 27-Year-Old Software Company Before Its First Electric Vehicle There’s a sentence Marques McCammon repeats every time someone asks him what Karma Automotive actually is. He doesn’t say “we’re an electric car manufacturer.” He doesn’t say “we compete with Porsche” or “we want to be the next Tesla.” … Read more
MASERATI QUATTROPORTE: SIX GENERATIONS WITH THE ENGINE WHERE IT SHOULDN’T BE The sedan that stole a prince’s heart Picture this. Early sixties. Modena. An engineer named Giulio Alfieri has an idea that sounds like madness: take a competition-derived V8, drop it into a four-door car, and tell the world that a sedan can be the … Read more
MAYBACH: THE BRAND THAT HAS DIED THREE TIMES AND KEEPS COMING BACK There are brands that fail and disappear. And there are brands that fail, disappear, come back, fail again, disappear again, and yet someone in a boardroom says: “But this time it’s going to work.” That brand is Maybach. And the most twisted part … Read more
Factorial Energy: The Battery That Could Kill Liquid Lithium As You Know It There’s a company in Massachusetts that’s about to rewrite the rules of the electric game. It’s not Tesla. It’s not CATL. It’s not any of the names you see splashed across headlines every week. It’s called Factorial Energy, it was founded by … Read more
