With today’s news that a longtime American prisoner has been freed from Cuba, leading to the surprise announcement that the U.S. will restore diplomatic relations with the country for the first time since 1961, we decided to revisit this 2012 piece on Cuba’s necessity-driven car culture. Enjoy. Read more…
The SR-71, an aircraft that first flew some 50 years ago next Monday, still holds the public’s imagination like no other flying machine. It could lob a couple of guys, some cameras, radars and jammers through the air at Mach 3.2. Yet seeing it perform down-low at an air show Read more
Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury, Quick Spins, Autoblog Black Conventional wisdom would dictate that adding more power and several key performance enhancements to an already very good car, like the 2015 Mercedes-Benz S550 Coupe, will end up equaling an even better car. In the case of the 2015 Mercedes-Benz Read more
It’s not easy being green, but being green makes it a lot easier to conceal a 2½-ton stake bed truck among the trees and brush in a residential area in St. Joseph, Michigan.
This month we have a look at a 1966 Pontiac GTO & 1971 Plymouth Barracuda; a barn find that’s a genuine Tri-powered four-speed, and a horror movie look-a-like.
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Following up on their rather interesting EOLAB hybrid concept , Renault plans to move forward by improving two existing technologies for next year, shedding weight from the electric motor and making a dual-fuel three-cylinder turbo more efficient. And they also have some far-fetched ideas for the future. Read more…
1968 was the last year Minis wore the BMC badge, but this version of the original Countryman with the ‘Breadthalyser’ plates somehow didn’t quite make it into production. Read more…
Filed under: Etc. We’re almost ready to record Episode #410 of the Autoblog Podcast! You can check out the topics below, add your own to the Q&A and join us live via UStream, as well. Keep reading for our embedded UStream player, and thanks for listening! Discussion Topics for Autoblog Read more