In the late 1990s, a San Francisco car dealer named Kjell Qvale did something audacious: he bet nearly $30 million...
automotive history
The 2001 Lexus SC430 vs. Mercedes CLK430: When Japan Finally Challenged German Convertible Supremacy
At the dawn of the 2000s, Lexus made a bold move: it decided that luxury convertibles didn't have to be...
Fuzzy dice used to mean something. They signaled that you were willing to roll the dice—literally and figuratively—with your life....
Aston Martin's survival story doesn't begin with a legendary sports car or a mythical engine. It begins with a dead...
The Daimler-Chrysler merger was supposed to be a visionary power move. It was, in reality, a nine-year disaster that mostly...
America didn't invent the car. But we turned it into a religion, a business model, and eventually, a symbol of...
Ford had the answer to affordable, lightweight sports cars sitting in its garage in 1962. Then it chose the wrong...
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...
Chrysler's corporate spin doctors worked overtime for nearly fifty years. For decades, the company insisted that the legendary 1972 440...
