Next time you need a tow, tip your hat to Tennessee, because it’s the home of the first tow truck, which was actually based ...

Sajeev wrote in a recent Piston Slap: “I’d pay a lot to turn back the clock and have wiper blades with replaceable refills. I am no fan of being locked into an ecosystem of paying more money for even ...

I keep hoping to run across a Matador Barcelona sedan or Ambassador Brougham station wagon one of these days, but so far, no dice. However, it was really easy to see today’s featured Reagan-era woody ...

To get perspective on the diversity and unabashed greatness of the era, your author took three wildly different products from 1979 out for a spin. Chris Stark In July of 1979, a beleaguered Jimmy ...

A month ago, we published a list of the cheapest V-12 classics you can buy. On it were cars such as the Jaguar XJ-S and XJ-12, the Ferrari 400 GT, the Lincoln Zephyr, the Mercedes-Benz SL600, BMW’s ...

Building cars is a pretty global affair these days. Everybody seems to have a factory everywhere, and even tiny specialist automakers source major components from overseas. Sixty years ago, it wasn’t ...

In the fall of last year, Yuki Nakajima, executive vice president of Toyota, confirmed the rumors: It was time for the decades-buried argument to begin again. That argument is, of course, whether you ...

There’s something about a car with a wood body that makes people smile. In a world of high-tech metal-and-plastic vehicles, real varnished wood on the outside of a car has an intimate, artisanal feel.

When we last spoke with Virgil Exner Jr. about his career, I promised readers they would have the chance to ask him questions. And that’s precisely what happened, as I received numerous questions from ...

Let’s say you’ve found yourself thinking lately that modern V-12s just aren’t powerful enough. Paganis make, what, like 850 horsepower? The Ferrari 12Cilindri a paltry 819. Oooh. There’s the 1001-hp ...

The Lamborghini LM002 was developed from a military prototype with a mid-engine Chrysler V-8 and a composite body. That prototype, the XR311 Cheetah, was vying for the military contract to replace ...