Search

One of Detroit's oldest thoroughfares, Livernois Avenue has borne witness to many chapters of the city's history--from the early days of Michigan's statehood to the heyday of automobile manufacturing and [...]

What Brazil's 19th-century rubber crash could teach today's oil drillers O NE OF THE mysteries of the Amazonas theatre concerns courtesans. Legend has it that in the 19th century the [...]

A car whose peculiarities resist utility. The mechanic who sold me my first car accompanied me on the test drive near his shop in Northeast Portland. As I recall, he [...]

2002: General Motors displays the AUTOnomy concept, a nonfunctional chassis designed to accept a hydrogen fuel cell, wheel hub motors and drive-by-wire technology. The 6-inch floor contains the fuel cell [...]

Byline: Richard Truett The way Chris Borroni-Bird sees it, the skateboard chassis -- the architecture that underpins most of today's battery-electric vehicles -- would have been invented by someone else [...]

MY FIRST TIME IN LOS ANGELES, I only wanted to see the canyons. This wasn't my first time, but we began in the canyons anyway. The pavement skitters over dusty [...]

Key dates for EV startup Faraday Future: -- May 2014: Faraday Future is founded by Chinese businessman Jia Yueting. -- January 2016: Faraday unveils its FFZero1 concept at CES. Company [...]

Insufficient infrastructure doomed the first generation of electric cars 'ALL IS ROTARY, beautifully perfect and wonderfully efficient,' said one evangelist for electric vehicles (EVs). 'There is not that almost terrifying [...]

High-performance vehicles date to the Prohibition Era, when bootleggers used modified cars to evade the police. Many consider the first production American muscle car to be the 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket [...]

Byline: Michael Martinez From the wave of upcoming electric vehicles to a push toward direct sales online, Tesla Inc. is a driving force behind many of the biggest changes to [...]

Byline: Lindsay Chappell Why was it that General Motors launched the pioneering EV1 electric car 25 years ago? More than the discussion of the car's design or speed, or its [...]

Byline: Richard Truett If you really want to know who killed the electric car, we'll tell you. It's Charles Kettering, and he did it with -- surprisingly -- an electric [...]

For Soviet Man, the garage was a special place. Guys gathered here after work to discuss their most pressing problems and maybe play a bit of chess. Sometimes, it was [...]

New Cars off 1972 NOTABLE: DODGE MONACO, FORD THUNDER-BIRD, MERCURY MONTEGO *Chrysler's 426 Hemi, Ford's Cobra Jet 429, and Chevrolet's highest-output 454 all die. * Those losses may be why [...]

Following the depression of the late '70m and early '80s, then the party high of the last half of the 'MON glitz, the '90s was a time of rehab--a reality [...]

Students of the SCCA's famed Trans-American Sedan series know how quickly it evolved from infancy in 1966 through the glory days of the '70 season. The first year of competition [...]

WE THOUGHT YOU might like to see some Jeep 'fantasy football' players that are forever riding the bench of history. Most never got called to play, or play much. Sometimes [...]

ONCE UPON A TIME IN DETROIT, A UNION PACIFIC ROUNDHOUSE SWEEPER FROM KANSAS TOOK A DISGRACED CAR COMPANY $32 MILLION IN DEBT AND 48 HOURS FROM BANKRUPTCY AND TRANSFORMED IT [...]

Plymouth. Oldsmobile. Pontiac. Now add one more name to the list of recently lapsed American car brands: Mercury. The culling of the domestic herd continues. For the Detroit Three, this [...]

IMAGINE THESE TAILFINS NOT FLYING AGAIN. IMAGINE THE 'CONTROL TOWER' TAILLIGHTS GONE DARK, NEVER TO SIGNAL ANOTHER LANE CHANGE. IMAGINE THE ENGINE BAY EMPTY, THE 'STYLED FOR TOMORROW' CAR UNABLE [...]

DAVE BREWER, KAYO ERWIN, AND HARRY STEVENSON OWN AN UNUSUAL 1953 BUICK. WHEN THE THREE FRIENDS SHOWED THE CAR AT THE 2010 AMELIA ISLAND CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE IN FLORIDA, THEIR BUICK [...]

What a year 1970 was, when everything came together for the American muscle car. The government had not yet stepped in with performance-robbing regulations, insurance was still relatively cheap, Super [...]

As I stood in the middle of a strangely quiet and virtually abandoned city block, for a moment I could imagine the sights and sounds of old growth timber being [...]

It's hard to decide which is better, this great old funny car or the story behind it. Actually, there are a whole bunch of stories, so we'll just dive in [...]

FOR FIVE DECADES, RICHARD RADCLIFFE, OF LIVONIA, MICHIGAN, CARED FOR A 1960 FORD FAIRLANE TWO-DOOR SEDAN WHEN NO ONE ELSE DID. AS RECENTLY AS 12 YEARS AGO, A CAR SHOW [...]

WE BELIEVE CHICAGO'S JOE BORTZ MAY BE THE WORLD'S MOST DEDICATED COLLECTOR OF ONE-OF-A-KIND CONCEPT CARS. THE BORTZ AUTO COLLECTION HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF HUNDREDS OF NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE [...]

THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA Motor Trend held its first Import Car of the Year contest in 1970. Porsche's mid-engine 914 won, and the staff wanted to make a big [...]

The year 1961 held a lot of hope for many. The new decade saw a young president elected by his charisma, rock 'n' roll was here to stay, and Detroit [...]

The next time you're in a rented Chrysler Sebring convertible, run your fingers across the vista of hard interior plastics, making sure not to cut yourself on sharp edges and [...]

'MERCURY' IS ONE OF THOSE RARE WORDS THAT SHOWS UP IN EVERY ASPECT OF HUMAN ENDEAVORS - FROM MYTHOLOGY TO MOTORCARS AND FROM SINGERS TO SPACE TRAVELERS. Like half of [...]

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE WEATHER, OHIOANS TELL EACH OTHER, WAIT FIVE MINUTES. IT'LL CHANGE. JUST ASK ANYONE FROM VAN WERT WHO REMEMBERS THE GREAT FLOOD OF '59. Monday, February [...]

LIGHTNING LESSON The weather phenomenon of lightning has figured into the mythology of many cultures since time began. It is often used as a vengeful weapon by gods, such as [...]

MOTOR TREND has spent six decades tracking, reporting on, and predicting automotive trends. What's hot? What'll be the next big thing? When will a mid-engine Corvette arrive? We've asked and [...]

LINCOLN GOT WHAT IT WANTED IN 1957. IT BECAME A STATUS SYMBOL. Margaret Burton, alias socialite Mrs. Janet R. Gray, embezzled $100,000 from a Decatur, Georgia, medical clinic. About to [...]

ON NOV. 15, 1930, WHEN THE 1931 CHEVROLETS WERE INTRODUCED, AMERICA WAS DRIVING INTO THE THROES OF THE SECOND YEAR OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION. OVER IN THE AUTOMOTIVE WORLD, A [...]