Cars

When Chevrolet unveiled their new Corvette sports car in 1953 Ford executives realized they would need to do something and the obvious thing would have been to create a Ford sports car that would directly compete…

The Honda S600 was Honda’s first car aimed at breaking into the global motor car mass market. Up until then Honda had been primarily a motorcycle manufacturer but had built two four wheeled vehicles, the T360…

The world’s first production V6 engine was created by Francesco De Virgilio of Lancia. It was an engine partly based on technological developments made in pre-war Lancia cars and in part designed to solve the problem…

Interesting is more important than fast. When it comes to cars there are lots of simply fast cars out there, but there aren’t so many really interesting ones. I think steam engines are the most interesting…

Jeremy Clarkson once said of MG owners that you could always pick one because of the ingrained grease and dirt under their fingernails. There may be a grain of truth in this although I haven’t yet…

Back in 1991 the Bugatti marque was resurrected for a few years by Italian entrepreneur Romano Artioli who set up Bugatti Automobili S.p.A. in Italy and debuted the company’s first car, the Bugatti EB110 GT on…