The Vega That Destroyed Chevy’s Subcompact Dreams: How a 24-Month Rush Job Killed an Aluminum Engine
Chevy's 1971 Vega was supposed to be GM's answer to Japanese subcompacts flooding the American market. Instead, it became a...
Industry
Deep dives into the business of cars — manufacturer moves, supply chains, market trends, and who’s winning and losing.
Your new car is watching the road better than you ever could. It’s scanning for pedestrians, measuring gaps to traffic,...
The year was 1900. Most automobiles were still basically motorized carriages—ungainly contraptions that jostled passengers around unpredictably and broke down...
In 1962, Oldsmobile dropped the Jetfire into showrooms sporting America's first production turbocharged V8—and almost immediately, GM realized it had...
That "ringers" phenomenon from the 1960s muscle car era wasn't magic—it was luck. One factory-fresh Chevelle would run a 14.5-second...
Seventy-three percent of light-duty cars sold in 2023 had direct-injection engines. That's not a coincidence—it's the result of automakers chasing...
In the mid-1960s, Mack Trucks was bleeding money. Cash-flow problems, tanking market share, and an engine lineup that couldn't compete...
Chrysler's corporate spin doctors worked overtime for nearly fifty years. For decades, the company insisted that the legendary 1972 440...
One of motorsport's most iconic visual signatures almost never happened. Subaru's legendary blue paint paired with golden wheels—the livery that...
Subaru's love affair with continuously variable transmissions is either a masterstroke of engineering pragmatism or a cautionary tale about cost-cutting...
