Las Vegas vintage car show is a sight to behold
Cars were streaming into the upper level of the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center when I visited the site of the Mecum Auction on Wednesday afternoon. The first of them crossed the […]
Get a load of this 1951 Alvis TA21 drophead coupe
As World War I ended, T.G. John, former manager for British motorcar manufacturer Siddeley-Deasy, bought the rights to Hillman’s Electra engine line. He also bought a foundry and a factory, and soon had 200 employees […]
Earliest Mustang hardtop ‘pilot car’ headed to auction
The first Ford Mustang hardtop built as a pre-production car is a Plain Jane base model in Caspian Blue powered by a 170 cid inline-6 with a three-speed manual transmission. However, it is the first […]
First driverless taxis may hit the streets before year’s end
Waymo, the autonomous car company owned by Google parent firm Alphabet, will launch the first driver-free taxi service before the end of 2018. The as-yet-unnamed service will allow customers to hail driverless cabs with apps […]
This 1974 ‘Citroen Maserati’ was way ahead of its time
A French-built car with an Italian-built V6 under the hood, the Citroen SM SC was lauded by critics and was the Motor Trend Car of the Year in 1972. We went to the Mullin Automotive […]
Rare Timbs Special Streamliner lost in Malibu fire
One of the most significant and imaginative postwar customs, the 1948 Norman E. Timbs Buick Special Streamliner, was destroyed in the devastating Woolsey Fire near Malibu, California. The Timbs Special, well-known for its swooping mid-engine […]
Classic motor show wows on London’s Regent Street
One of London’s most famous thoroughfares, Regent Street, is renowned for its shops and neo-classical architecture. But it was recently closed to normal traffic from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Circuit for the Regent Street Motor […]
Rare, low-mileage, ’69 Dodge Charger 500 shows off racing history
When people start talking about classic muscle cars, it doesn’t take long for the Dodge Charger to pull into the conversation. Originally designed as a mid-sized alternative to the Ford Mustang, the Charger became a […]
Testing tomorrow’s car tech today at Stanford’s CARS lab
If you look in a far corner of the Stanford University campus, you will find The Center for Automotive Research, a place where students, professors, manufacturers and even the federal government work together to build […]
Bob Bondurant school of driving closes amid bankruptcy filling
After 50 years, one of the nation’s top performance-driving schools has shuttered The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving closed its doors Monday, slightly more than a month after the school filed for Chapter 11 […]