Next time you need a tow, tip your hat to Tennessee, because it’s the home of the first tow truck, which was actually based ...

Sajeev wrote in a recent Piston Slap: “I’d pay a lot to turn back the clock and have wiper blades with replaceable refills. I am no fan of being locked into an ecosystem of paying more money for even ...

A month ago, we published a list of the cheapest V-12 classics you can buy. On it were cars such as the Jaguar XJ-S and XJ-12, the Ferrari 400 GT, the Lincoln Zephyr, the Mercedes-Benz SL600, BMW’s ...

To get perspective on the diversity and unabashed greatness of the era, your author took three wildly different products from 1979 out for a spin. Chris Stark In July of 1979, a beleaguered Jimmy ...

I keep hoping to run across a Matador Barcelona sedan or Ambassador Brougham station wagon one of these days, but so far, no dice. However, it was really easy to see today’s featured Reagan-era woody ...

Building cars is a pretty global affair these days. Everybody seems to have a factory everywhere, and even tiny specialist automakers source major components from overseas. Sixty years ago, it wasn’t ...

Let’s say you’ve found yourself thinking lately that modern V-12s just aren’t powerful enough. Paganis make, what, like 850 horsepower? The Ferrari 12Cilindri a paltry 819. Oooh. There’s the 1001-hp ...

In the fall of last year, Yuki Nakajima, executive vice president of Toyota, confirmed the rumors: It was time for the decades-buried argument to begin again. That argument is, of course, whether you ...

There’s something about a car with a wood body that makes people smile. In a world of high-tech metal-and-plastic vehicles, real varnished wood on the outside of a car has an intimate, artisanal feel.

The Lamborghini LM002 was developed from a military prototype with a mid-engine Chrysler V-8 and a composite body. That prototype, the XR311 Cheetah, was vying for the military contract to replace ...

Aufrecht, Melcher, and Großaspach — better known as AMG—has a long and distinguished history as the in-house hot rod shop at Mercedes-Benz. Before it officially became a part of the Daimler empire, ...