The Ford Capri, launched in 1969, was Europe's answer to the Ford Mustang, and one of the first fruits of Ford's newly unified European operations. This week, we look at the birth of "the car you always ...
When the first BMW 6-Series appeared in 1976, many BMW partisans dismissed it as an overpriced, overweight boulevardier, inferior to the company's sporty sedans. When production finally ended 13 years ...
Designed as a Volkswagen, powered by an Audi engine, Porsche's entry-level 924 rubbed many purists the wrong way. In 1982, a new look and a new engine transformed it into an eighties icon, a favorite toy ...
Although Porsche and Volkswagen hadn't exactly set the world on fire with their first joint-venture sports car, the 914, the two companies decided to try again in the early seventies with the Porsche 924. ...
In February 1954, Mercedes-Benz introduced its first two postwar production sports cars . One was the remarkable "Gullwing" 300SL, the street version of the race car that won Le Mans in 1952. The other ...
Introduced in 1976, Volkswagen's Golf GTI was not the first sporty family car, nor even the best, but it defined an entire genre of practical performance cars : the ever-popular hot hatch. Click here to ...
... the 911, it never quite found its niche, dismissed by the faithful as a pricey German Corvette. Nonetheless, the 928 is a milestone car in its own right -- a formidable GT that foreshadowed the shape of ...
Even drivers who don't consider themselves car nuts (or enthusiasts, if you will) often love the idea of owning a car that feels like a real race car, whether for the bragging rights or just to pretend ...
... in German y, designed in Italy...and styled in Detroit? Read on... Click to read more about the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia
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For all the mythology surrounding Mercedes' supposed engineering perfectionism and storied racing heritage, the real appeal of the three-pointed star was neatly summed up by Janis Joplin back in 1970. ...
In our recent article about the Packard One-Twenty, we talked about how not to build a brand. This week, we'll look at the postwar rebirth of BMW, and how the company built one of the world's most successful ...
Sometimes there's nothing worse than having an iconic, instantly recognizable product. How do you follow up an icon? Both Volkswagen and Porsche faced that problem in the 1960s. Volkswagen had the Beetle, ...
Today, the Porsche brand is built on the strength of the seemingly immortal 911, but to many fans, the essence of Porsche was established by this car, the first model to carry the storied name of Dr.-Ing. ...
