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European cars come with a certain set of assumptions: that engineering matters more than cost, that driving dynamics are non-negotiable, and that character is worth paying for even when it’s occasionally expensive to maintain. Cars & Code covers the European marques with the seriousness they deserve — and the scepticism they sometimes earn.
26 articles about Euro
The year is 1980. You are a World Rally Championship competitor. You have spent years developing your rear-wheel drive car to a fine edge. You have learned its limits, managed its weaknesses, extracted everything the regulations allow. You arrive at…
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Peter Schutz joined Porsche as chief executive in January 1981. Within his first week, he walked into a…
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Four years ago, Lotus stood up at the launch of the Emira and told the assembled press, with…
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The E92 BMW M3, produced from 2007 to 2013, is widely considered one of the finest performance cars…
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Affalterbach is a small town northeast of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg. Around 10,000 people live there. It has a…
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For 28 years, Bugatti was a passion project paid for by Volkswagen. As of late April, it is…
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In 1986, Porsche unveiled a car that looked like the future. Low, wide, and aerodynamically sculpted, the 959…
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