Look at a 1957 Ford Custom 300 today and you see a family sedan. Two doors or four, a bench seat, armrests and a pair of sun visors. It was not the Fairlane 500, not the Skyliner with its folding steel roof, not the car on the brochure cover. It was, however, one of the cars that did something no Ford had managed in more than twenty years. In 1957, Ford outsold Chevrolet. And on…
Mercury’s advertising for 1955 made a bold promise: “You don’t have to look twice to tell it’s a Mercury!” Underneath, the car shared its…
For more than two decades, a Buick meant a straight eight. Long hood, long crankshaft, smooth and unhurried. Then came 1954, and that tradition…
The new Tesla Roadster can launch with cold-gas thrusters. Refilling them is another matter. Tesla engineering chief Lars Moravy told Top Gear that the…
The internet has decided that America’s millionaires drive Toyotas. A “scientific study” says so, the headlines say so, and a TikTok clip by real…
Plenty of Ford engines were meant to be temporary. A bridge to the next design. A truck motor that would do until something better…
Detroit sold horsepower on the hood and paid its bills somewhere else. The ten engines below never got a stripe package or a two…
Tesla still rules the roost, but the electric gold rush has hit a rough patch If you’ve been wondering whether the EV revolution is…
Bloomberg report says SpaceX and friends are propping up Tesla’s pickup numbers Well, this is an interesting way to move metal off the lot.…
Jim Farley’s garage tells two very different stories at once. Here’s one you might not have seen coming: the CEO of Ford Motor Company…
