Managing Composites: the bones of the hypercars you see at Goodwood are engineered in Spain Everybody looks to Dallara as the reference for hypercar and racing chassis work. And then I stumble onto a little-known Spanish company that turns out to do the same thing. And does it just as well, because it builds for … Read more
Audi V12 TDI: The Greatest Diesel Ever Built, Killed By Audi America never got the Audi V12 TDI. That turns out to be the least interesting thing about it. Here’s the more interesting thing. The V12 TDI is not the Le Mans engine. It doesn’t share the vee angle, the displacement, or the architecture with … Read more
Covini C6W: thirty years chasing a six-wheeled supercar In 1976, a Formula 1 car with four tiny front wheels won a Grand Prix and turned the motoring world upside down. It was the Tyrrell P34, and among the millions it fascinated was a young Italian engineer from a small town in the Oltrepò Pavese. For … Read more
Zenvo TSR-S: What’s There Beyond the Wing? The Zenvo TSR-S is the car from that clip — the one with the wing that twists sideways. You’ve seen it: a stationary supercar, all angles and menace, and a rear wing that suddenly cants over to one side, pirouettes for the phone camera. Millions of views. “Witchcraft” … Read more
Rover P6 3500: the engine Detroit threw away and Britain made immortal Every gearhead in America knows the Buick 215. Or thinks they don’t, until you tell them the story. It’s the little aluminum V8 that Buick and Oldsmobile built for their compacts at the dawn of the sixties, the one that powered the Buick … Read more
Amédée Gordini — The Sorcerer Who Took On Ferrari With Nothing A Workshop Against the World There is a man standing in a workshop on Boulevard Victor in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, sometime in the early 1950s. The floor is concrete. The tools are worn. The parts bin is half empty because there is … Read more
