History

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.

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

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

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 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...

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...

When you think of Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, you may imagine Eniac, or a DEC PDP-8, perhaps even such early personal computers as the Altair and Apple II. Well, think SYNC, too. Curators at the museum have added Ford's SYNC in-car connectivity and communications system to its...