Enzo Ferrari was 89 years old, had been mostly blind for two years, and was running out of time. He knew it. His engineers knew it. The company that bore his name — now majority-owned by Fiat, run in part…
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In the early 1970s, the automotive world briefly went mad for the Wankel rotary engine. Mercedes-Benz investigated it.…
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At three o'clock this morning Central European time, while Brussels was asleep and most of the continent was…
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Rivian has been building excellent, expensive trucks that not enough people could afford to buy. The R1S is…
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Peter Schutz joined Porsche as chief executive in January 1981. Within his first week, he walked into a product planning meeting and noticed something on the development timeline. The Porsche 911 had been given an end date. Not a retirement…
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If you wanted proof that Ferrari's first electric car would be controversial, you needed only to observe the launch strategy. The car — known until recently as the Elettrica, now confirmed as the Luce, meaning "light" in Italian — was…
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Nineteen years, nine months, thirteen days. That's the age at which Andrea Kimi Antonelli became the youngest Monaco…
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The year is 1980. You are a World Rally Championship competitor. You have spent years developing your rear-wheel…
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For about five years, the global car industry has held a deeply earnest, often shouty, occasionally tearful debate…
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Most electric vehicle startups follow a familiar arc: ambitious launch, missed targets, emergency fundraise, repeat until either profitability…
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Toyota's marketing department has spent the last fortnight watching its rivals admit defeat. Lotus said the EV future…
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There is a particular kind of corporate communications strategy where you celebrate a 655% increase in one country…
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