Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale: the most beautiful car ever made? There is a certain kind of claim that gets repeated so often in car magazines that it loses its meaning. “The most beautiful car ever made.” Top Gear has said it. Chris Harris has said it. Pebble Beach jurors say it every time a 33 … Read more
The Supercar That Dared to Be Comfortable: The Maserati Bora’s Secret French Heart Ask any supercar of 1971 the questions that actually mattered to an owner and you’d usually get a sneer. Can I climb in without wrecking my back? Can I drive it for two hours without going deaf? Can I park it without … Read more
Vision BMW Alpina: They Killed a Sports Brand to Build a Maybach There’s a video Chris Harris filmed years ago in an Alpina B7. He’s on an unrestricted stretch of autobahn, indicated needle past 280 km/h, and he keeps saying the same thing in different ways: this car is doing something the M5 cannot. It … Read more
BMW 507: The Most Beautiful Car BMW Ever Built Almost Killed the Company Walk into any decent auction in Monterey or Pebble Beach and one of these things will cross the block for two million dollars. Minimum. The Surtees car went for nearly five. People queue up for the privilege of bidding on something that … Read more
Ford Mustang GTD: the Mustang that wasn’t supposed to exist Three hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars. For a Mustang. Read it again. No typo. A Ford Mustang costs, today, more than a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. More than a base McLaren 750S. More than an Aston Martin Vantage did not long ago. And the guy … Read more
MASERATI QUATTROPORTE: SIX GENERATIONS WITH THE ENGINE WHERE IT SHOULDN’T BE The sedan that stole a prince’s heart Picture this. Early sixties. Modena. An engineer named Giulio Alfieri has an idea that sounds like madness: take a competition-derived V8, drop it into a four-door car, and tell the world that a sedan can be the … Read more
AMG: From a Garage in Burgstall to Devouring Mercedes from Within The Story of Two Engineers, a Rented Apartment, and the Red Pig That Changed Everything Every empire starts somewhere small. Apple started in a garage. Amazon started in a bedroom. And AMG — the division that now defines what “performance” means for the world’s … Read more
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
DTM: How German Brands Created, Dominated, and Killed Their Own Championship DTM is the story of a suicide in slow motion. A brilliant championship, with the best touring cars in the world, cutting-edge technology, and elite drivers, that was destroyed by the very brands that created it. It wasn’t an accident. It wasn’t bad luck. … Read more
Chevrolet Monte Carlo: The Luxury Coupe That Became NASCAR’s Most Winning War Machine There are cars that are born with one purpose and die fulfilling a completely different one. The Chevrolet Monte Carlo is the most extreme example of that paradox in the entire history of the American automobile. It was born in 1970 as … Read more
