At some point in the mid-1980s, a group of Mazda engineers in a room in California got into an argument about where to put the engine. This was not a minor technical discussion. It was a philosophical dispute about what…
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In 1968, Zora Arkus-Duntov — the Belgian-born engineer who had more or less invented the Corvette's performance identity…
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The BMW E30 M3 was not designed to be a great car. It was designed to be a…
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The average new car transaction price in the United States in 2026 is just over $48,000. That 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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The Porsche Carrera GT was a $440,000 car when it went on sale in 2004. That was considered…
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Lee Iacocca was thirty-eight years old, running Ford Division, and in possession of a conviction that the company…
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The Dodge Charger — both the electric Daytona and the twin-turbo Hurricane six-cylinder SIXPACK — has become America's…
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The Honda Civic Hybrid is a genuinely excellent car. It is reliable, efficient, competitively priced at around $30,000,…
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In the early 1970s, Porsche built a turbocharged racing car called the 917/30 and very nearly broke Can-Am…
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Germany has a complicated relationship with modified cars. The country that invented the high-performance automobile, that gave the…
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