History

Chevrolet built a four-seat Corvette prototype in 1962 to compete with the Ford Thunderbird, but it was nixed when an executive got stuck in the rear seat.

Part 2 of the Father of NOS: How the business took off, racing, selling to Holley and "The Fast & The Furious"

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.

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.

There's now been seven generations of the Volkswagen Golf GTI, and an eighth is just around the corner.

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

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

The 1948 Ford F-1 Bonus Built kicked off the light truck revolution.

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.

"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 car chooses its owner, and such a statement rings truest with this 1939 Mercedes-Benz 770K Grosser Offener Tourenwagen. We say that because this example was Adolf Hitler's personal vehicle, and it was also used by his staff during World War II. The historic, and controversial, Mercedes will head...

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.