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McLaren once copied a diffuser design using a picture of an upside-down competitor
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Formula 1 teams will do pretty much anything to get an idea of what the other guys are doing. Sometimes they’ll ask drivers to sniff around competitors the cars on the grid. Other times they send engineers to each other’s garages with cameras. This outright espionage sometimes has humorous results. Race mechanics occasionally stand in…
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The Government Sponsored Nationwide $1200 Dollar Mid-Pandemic Beater Roundup
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I have done a beater roundup before, but we’re caught up in some special circumstances now. A bunch of us are now 1200 dollars richer, right? Assuming you still have some manner of income, this check is an automotive opportunity. Don’t worry, though. You won’t have to spend the rest of your time on craigslist…
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Let’s Make Some Plans for When This All Blows Over
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Big retail stores shutting down is a motorsports opportunity. I’m gonna cut right to the chase. The other day JC Penney announced they’re considering bankruptcy and that got this ball rolling again. Let Me Explain Autocross is big right now. Well maybe not right now, but it was before nobody could do anything besides drink,…
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Auto Journalists Started the Cannonball. They Can’t End It.
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Cross-country speed records are unspeakably irresponsible during a global pandemic. Now would seem like a great opportunity to say that this whole cannonball business should never have happened. You saw what those A8-driving, iPad-abusing people did? It’s the Cannonball’s fault! They’ve always been needlessly reckless! But you know what? I’m a hypocrite for saying that.…
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Does the Cadillac Cimarron Deserve Its Reputation?
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We’re gonna take a look at the Cadillac Cimarron – or Cimarron by Cadillac – whatever you want to call it. It’s going to be objective, It’s going to be fair, and we’re going to assume it does not have the reputation it does now. Before you lift a finger over the, “You are a…
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The Cooper-Hewitt Has an Awesome Online Collection of Behind-the-Scenes Automobilia
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A lot of industrial or transportation designers consider their concept renderings “wallpaper.” As a result, a lot of conceptual images or sketches are lost to time, stuffed in a portfolio somewhere. Luckily for us, the Cooper Hewitt Museum (a part of the Smithsonian) has a great collection of some of these sorts of Images online.…
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The Rise of the Fastback Sedan
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I wonder why it took so long for sedan’s rooflines to stretch all the way back to the end of the car. Well, I guess it didn’t really take that long. You could consider something like the Hudson Hornet one of the first fastback sedans and that was made in the early fifties. Wait a…
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The Hyundai Genesis Sucker-Punch to the Luxury Car Market
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Somehow, very recently, Hyundai’s Genesis brand just ‘got it’. I’m not saying it was gradual, either. With the new G80 and GV80, the automaker did it in one generation. Have you seen the previous G80? The new one makes the previous car look like one of those lasagna-shaped fish that mops it’s food off of…
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In 1988 the Chevy Nova was Down but Not Out
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The Chevy Nova most of us remember wasn’t built in the eighties. It was made in the sixties and early seventies. It was powered by big V8s, and they’re a desirable car today amongst baby boomers. Go to a car show after the global pandemic ends and owners of SS Novas will still insist you…
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Oldsmobile’s FE3-X Concepts were Unironically Cool
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Being an “old person’s car” is a hard image to shake, especially when the name of your brand has the word ‘old’ in it. If you were Oldsmobile in the 1980s and 90s, you could either accept your fate or try something different. Most other GM brands chose the latter. Buick made their GNX, a…
