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People often complain that those gorgeous and slippery concept cars that automakers create to tout their brand vision and design prowess get watered down to weak sauce by the time they reach ...
Automotive journalists are a curious bunch, to put it mildly. Many drive new vehicles on a weekly basis, getting insider access to manufacturers for better, or occasionally worse, ends. I lost access ...
In the past 20 years, unless you count obituaries of pals gone behind pit wall, I’ve written rarely about cars. If it weren’t for Yugo’s anniversary and recent hints that the brand may actually make a ...
Never say never—unless you’re talking about diesel as a mainstream fuel option in the U.S. We’re more likely to see wood-burning steam engines under the hood of future cars than we are ...
Don’t get too excited about the prospect of grabbing a bunch of rare Fox wagon parts off this car, because I shot these photos in December of 2022; sometimes I write about junkyard cars right away, ...
Since the beginning of time, automakers and, by proxy, car enthusiasts, have been sticking big engines in cars originally intended for less power. The quest for more muscle is never-ending, and ...
The Hagerty Price Guide Indexes—first published in 2009—are a series of stock market-style indexes that average the Hagerty Price Guide condition #2 (“excellent”) values of representative vehicles, or ...
Major Henry Segrave was ground-breaking – and fearless – in his bid to push the four-tonne, 23ft 6in, 45-liter Sunbeam to more than 200mph. Courtesy National Motor Museum The engines were started up ...
“It has long been the desire of Cadillac to build each year a few highly individualized cars which would possess supreme possibilities.” Now that customers will soon receive their cars, we decided to ...
Ed Pink, known for decades as “The Old Master” because of his wide-ranging engine-building expertise, passed away at age 94. Born in Los Angeles in 1931, Pink made a name for himself in land speed ...
Not long after I began contributing to Hagerty eight years ago, I wrote a detailed four-part piece on electrical relays and how they work in cars. You can still find the articles here (Part I: Why We ...
For most of automotive history, sports car drivers who opted for drop-tops had to accept a degree of compromise: The credit of open-air exhilaration was offset by a debit to agility and outright ...