The Mate’s Rear Wing: What Works and What’s Just Expensive Sticker (AeroNEC · 5) You know the car. Hatchback, lowered, and a rear wing the size of a picnic table bolted to the bootlid, tall enough to serve tea on. Top Gear built a whole comedy strand out of cars like it. And the question … Read more
Why Swedes Design Such Strange Cars: Nordic Philosophy vs German Obsession By Not Enough Cylinders If you’ve read the other articles in this series, you already have three concrete examples of Swedish cars doing things nobody else did: engine installed backwards, odd five-cylinder motor, supersonic-fighter-named front-wheel-drive car with no electronic aids. This isn’t coincidence. It’s … Read more
SAAB 9-3 Viggen: The Last Scream Before the Abyss By Not Enough Cylinders Some cars arrive at the wrong moment. Some cars arrive when the company building them already has one foot over the edge. And some cars do both at once, with such intensity that forty years later they’re still impossible to ignore. The … Read more
