History

Thermos took a WWII concept and applied it to making everything faster. Part one of the high horsepower saga of NOS.

The Ford GT40 made history by winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans four years straight, but it could have looked much different.

Porsche was already building cars years before the brand's familiar crest appeared.

Audi RS models undergo rigorous testing, including 5,000 miles on the Nurburgring, and are subject to millions of exact measurements to ensure their performance.

Fears of a push to ban convertibles in the U.S. in the 1960s spurred Porsche to create a new body style that offered more safety but still let the outside in: the Targa.

Aerodynamic Autotram was designed to carry 42 passengers in comfort, style and speed on rails.

As Ferrari considers yet another stab at the iconic US race, here's a look at the previous efforts ranging back to 1952.

A specially-developed stock block version of the original Chrysler Hemi nearly brought an end to the Offenhauser dynasty at the Indy 500

A history of the Porsche 911 GT2 from 1995 to present.

Volkswagen's little air-cooled vehicles served some iconic fledgling companies before they hit it big.

The U.S liberated Germany's Volkswagen factory and the 7,700 slave laborers who worked there 75 years ago, setting the stage for VW's rebirth as a peacetime automaker.

Every car builder in Italy wanted to be the next Ferrari. Alejandro De Tomaso created a wonderful marriage between sleek Italian design and American horsepower.

A tribute to "Big Willie" Robinson, a gentle giant who raced against LA gangs and drugs.

Next year marks Bentley's 100th year of operation and the brand revealed its first celebration plan. To mark the milestone date, Bentley will release a limited edition book covering a century of operations and the brand's future. As we learned in July, it will also build a special Mulsanne as a...

"We are what nobody needs, but everyone wants." That's a hell of a statement, but it's one that Porsche can certainly make, and the brand does just that in this video tribute to 70 years of building sports cars. This video is not a deep dive into Porsche's history. Instead, it's a quick and...

No one at Mercedes-Benz knew it at the time, but the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR would ultimately go down as one of the 1990's most iconic Grand Touring Championship cars and spawn one of the era's wildest limited-edition supercars. It's easy to assume such a project took months, even years to develop...

Mazda will display 15 significant MX-5 models at the 2014 New York Auto Show.

Audi predecessor DKW first crash-tested a car in 1938.

AMG has gone from independent tuner to in-house performance division.

You'd never know it today, but there once was a time when Britain had the second-largest automotive industry in the world. A bit of that heritage surfaces this month as one of the seminal auto plants that built Britain's industry celebrates its 100th birthday. That site, now called MINI Plant...