German Auto Industry Crisis: The Hangover, Wolfsburg Edition The suite is destroyed. There’s a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet, a mattress speared on a statue outside, and a stolen LVPD cruiser sitting in the valet lane. Four guys on the floor, none of them remember anything, one is missing a tooth, … Read more
Mercedes-Benz T80: The Six-Wheeled Nazi Speed Machine Porsche Designed That Never Turned a Wheel Walk into the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart and you’ll find a black car nearly 27 feet long. Three axles, six wheels, two small stubby wings, an aluminum body built by an aircraft plant. No engine in the bay. No odometer to … Read more
Porsche W18: the engine patented amid an electric crisis Let’s do an exercise together. Picture the following situation. You’re a Porsche AG executive in October 2025. Your group’s full-year operating profit has just collapsed 93%, from €5.640 billion to €413 million (or 98% if you include the €4.7 billion writedowns from abandoning parts of the … Read more
Porsche 911 GT1: the legal loophole that won Le Mans Here’s the part most people get backwards: the Porsche 911 GT1 is not a road car they turned into a race car. It’s a race car they were forced to register for the road. Because if they hadn’t, the FIA wouldn’t let it onto the … Read more
Le Mans: The Race That Changed the Rules (And Broke Them When It Suited) Le Mans is not just a race. It’s a battlefield where manufacturers, regulators, and human ego have been colliding at 350 km/h for over a century. And if you think the 24 Hours of Le Mans is just cars going around … Read more
