In the early 1970s, the automotive world briefly went mad for the Wankel rotary engine. Mercedes-Benz investigated it. Citroën built a car around it. NSU staked its future on it. General Motors spent $50 million acquiring a licence. The rotary…
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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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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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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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On the morning of Saturday 14 June, at Circuit de la Sarthe, 62 cars will line up for…
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Every car show in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia has at least one of them: a Honda…
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There is a quiet, faintly awkward statistic doing the rounds in Detroit board rooms this morning, and nobody…
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