Alvis TB14. In 1919, the British car manufacturer Alvis was established in the city of Coventry, England. It would produce cars for almost 50 years before Rover purchased a controlling interest in 1965 and scrapped Alvis’s car-building enterprise in 1967 Read more
Filed under: Videos, Toys/Games Adult-sized children, rejoice. The Razor Crazy Cart, which we showed you way back in July of 2013 and which one fun-hating Autoblog staffer called “a pediatrician’s nightmare,” is now available for grownups. This is the best Read more
Filed under: Budget, Truck, Hatchback, Ford, Toys/Games First Drive: 2015 Ford Focus EcoBoost Cagey car-spotters may be able to pick out the 2015 model of Ford’s Focus at a glance, but the most fascinating update for the new compact lies Read more
This Saturday the last Easy Rider chopper will go up for auction , and as the lone survivor , it’s expected to fetch something north of $1 million. But 45 years after the film was released, the builders behind "Captain Read more
James Glickenhaus rocks. Not only is he making a Le Mans car for the street that can go from road car to race car , he’s shared his latest plans for the engine and chassis design in our comments. And Read more
Riddle me this: How fast can you go in a turbo LS-powered 1960 Parkwood wagon before its ridiculous drag coefficient spoils the fun? Riddle me this: How fast can you go in a turbo LS-powered 1960 Parkwood wagon before its Read more
Images from the collection of Mark J. McCourt Honda automobiles may be completely ubiquitous nowadays, seemingly as part of the American landscape as Mount Rushmore, but it wasn’t always that way. Indeed, what we now know of as an automotive Read more
Thousands of Abandoned Cars in the Forest, and You Can See Them! You’ve probably seen images from this place before. Big finned Cadillacs sinking slowly in the loam, a ’67 GTO peering out from waist-high weeds, vines curling around the Read more
No guessing on the reason for the traffic backup at the intersection of SE Powell Boulevard and 17th Avenue in Portland, as depicted in this 1964 photo that we came across on Vintage Portland: As VP and its commenters noted, Read more
Mercury’s Comet, and its more pedestrian cousin, the Ford Maverick, were once staples of parking lots and driveways across America. Their near-disappearance from the automotive landscape in recent years has had an odd effect on many of us who once Read more