MARCOS MANTIS

Marcos Mantis XP

Marcos Mantis: I Held One of Britain’s Strangest Cars and Never Knew It Here is a thing about plywood. During the Second World War, the de Havilland Mosquito — one of the fastest aircraft in the sky — was built largely from it. Wood, glued and shaped by people who understood that light, stiff and … Read more

FIAT MULTIPLA

First generation Fiat Multipla in silver parked on a cobblestone street in an Italian old town with terracotta buildings in the background

Fiat Multipla: The World’s Ugliest Car That Was a Misunderstood Genius There are cars that when you first see them make you think: “This is a design mistake.” The 1998 Fiat Multipla provoked that reaction across practically the entire planet. It was repeatedly voted the ugliest car ever made. It became a meme before the … Read more