Cadillac built a $400,000 temple and forgot you can’t buy your way back to God There’s a thing American luxury keeps doing, and Cadillac just did it harder than anyone in decades. It remembers being great, points at the memory, and asks you to mistake the pointing for the thing itself. The Celestiq is the … Read more
Hot Vapor: The Engine a Mechanic With No Degree Built in 1984 Was the HCCI Mazda Spent 35 More Years Trying to Mass-Produce Daytona Beach, Florida. 1984. Behind the back door of the workshop Smokey Yunick called The Best Damn Garage in Town, a Pontiac Fiero sits up on jack stands. Under the engine cover … 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
PONTIAC GTO (1964-1974): The Godfather of the American Muscle Car The Birth of a Forbidden Legend In 1963, General Motors had a crystal-clear policy: no division could install engines larger than 330 cubic inches in intermediate-sized cars. It was a corporate safety rule, designed to prevent “mad engineers” from putting bombs on wheels into the … Read more
