PORSCHE 928

A 1988 Porsche 928 S4 in Guards Red, parked on an empty coastal highway at sunset. Pop-up headlights open.

Porsche 928 — The Car That Tried to Kill the 911 Porsche 928: Porsche’s Greatest Failure In the mid-1970s, Porsche made a rational, engineering-driven decision: the 911’s rear-engine, air-cooled layout was a dead end, and the future required a front-engine, water-cooled grand tourer. They were right about the engineering. They were catastrophically wrong about their … Read more

BMW 850 CSI

Black BMW 850 CSi with closed pop-up headlights seen from front three-quarter angle

BMW 850 CSi: The 380 HP V12 BMW Built to Humiliate Mercedes and Failed Gloriously The Grand Tourer That Arrived at Exactly the Wrong Moment In 1992, BMW presented the world with the 850 CSi: a Grand Tourer with a 5.6-liter V12 engine, 380 hp of power, a 6-speed manual transmission as the only option, … Read more