Though engineered and built in France, the Renault Caravelle can lay claim to some American roots. Pierre Dreyfus, the company’s chief executive, was heading to the U.S. in the spring of 1957 to promote the new Dauphine, and accepted an Read more
“Edsel – the car that is already making automotive history for the Ford Motor Company.” Yeah, but what kind of history? We’ve all read of the optimism and exuberance with which the Edsel was launched, and there’s perhaps no better Read more
Filed under: Green, Emissions, Germany, Technology, Commercial Vehicles A study in Germany finds that the popularity of larger vehicles and increased traffic on the roads is causing greenhouse gas emissions in the transport segment to actually increase from 1990 levels. Read more
Photos courtesy Auctions America. For Ford’s 50th anniversary in 1953, its passenger cars received a few minor updates and 50th Anniversary horn buttons, but Dearborn’s familiar red and gray tractor was radically revised. The all-new 1953 NAA rolled out with Read more
The first van in space? According to this old publicity photo from Ford UK, which BigLorryBlog shared eons ago and which we also ran across on a nice history of the Ford Transit van, it was a six-wheeled gullwing-door, bubble-window-in-the-roof Read more
Rolls-Royce doesn’t have workers, it has craftsmen and women. But even as it keeps setting sales record after sales record , selling over 4,000 units in 2014, it still puts together its cars by hand. And the factory is still Read more
Filed under: Videos, Infiniti, Sedan, Classics, Luxury MotorWeek is remembering Infiniti in the brand’s early days with a drive in the 1990 Q45. Continue reading MotorWeek revisits 1990 Infiniti Q45 MotorWeek revisits 1990 Infiniti Q45 originally appeared on Autoblog on Read more
Just before 1 AM on March 17, 1990, a car pulled up outside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. A man got out, was let inside, and then left. Twenty-four hours later, $500 million in art was stolen – Read more
All photos by Terry Shea In the past year or so, I have been trying to assemble a complete set of hand tools, filling in the gaps and adding some tools I didn’t even know I needed. You can never Read more
Rather than sticking with one place or time as we do with most of our carspotting photos, today we’ve got three that were all taken in the parking lot of Sears stores in three different locations and at three different Read more