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Not happy with the way automotive history played out? Wishing your favorite automaker in your favorite time period would have played around a little more with conventionality? Bored with auto designs restricted by feasibility of production? Good, because we trawled Read more

The concept behind Fiat’s latest 500 variant for the United States market, the plus-sized 500L, is nothing new. Three years after the original Fiat 500 debuted in 1957, the Italian automaker introduced the 500 K, also known as the Giardiniera Read more

The 1.7-mile Corvair, to be offered as part of the “second chance” Lambrecht sale. Images courtesy of VanDerBrink Auctions. While all of the nearly 500 cars and trucks at September’s much-hyped Lambrecht Chevrolet auction in Pierce, Nebraska, sold at no Read more

Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. One of the true greats of modern American open-wheel racing is reluctantly hanging it up. The lingering effects of a horrific crash at last month’s IndyCar street race in Houston have forced Dario Franchitti to Read more

Go to any oil rack in your local auto parts store and you’ll see at least 35 different kinds of oil these days. OE manufacturers are requiring multi-viscosity weights that were unheard of previously, or products that meet their own Read more