Category
Every manufacturer has a story. Most of them involve ambition, money, engineering brilliance, and at least one catastrophically bad decision. Cars & Code covers the brands — what they’re building, what they’ve abandoned, and what it all actually means for the people buying the cars.
In a week so on-the-nose it could be a satire, the two companies that share the Volvo name went in precisely opposite directions on combustion power. One unveiled a freshly engineered, in-house, hydrogen-ready 13-litre diesel. The other publicly admitted it…
Read the full story →
Affalterbach is a small town northeast of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg. Around 10,000 people live there. It has a…
Read more →
There is a particular type of vehicle that car enthusiasts describe as "characterful" when what they actually mean…
Read more →
In 1977, a white Lotus Esprit drove off a pier in Sardinia and became a submarine. The sequence…
Read more →
This is what happens when an EV strategy goes badly wrong. The Accord turned 50 on 8 May,…
Read more →
The Cannonball Run was invented by a man who believed the national speed limit was an affront to…
Read more →
In 1961, Carroll Shelby was a racing driver with a heart condition that had ended his career and…
Read more →