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Automotive Traveler: Chrysler Italianate Diversions Part 2; The Ghia L6.4
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In this edition of Chrysler Italianate Diversions we discover that Dual Motors created the worlds longest production line – from Detroit to Milan and back to Detroit – at least 3 decades before the infamous Cadillac Allante, and without Jumbo Jets! This is a story I wrote about in Automotive Traveler, but now its time…
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Hey Top Gear, You Forgot The Lancia Delta S4
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Wanna see a Lancia Delta S4 (as heard in our previous aural pleasuring session) on an indoor kart track? Of course you do.
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Automotive Traveler: Chryslers Italianate Diversions, Part 1; The Dual-Ghia
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If you think the idea of Italian-built production Chryslers is new, you only have to look back about 50 years to see that we are not navigating in uncharted waters.
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The Ferguson Mustang FF: AWD and a 427!!!
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Ferguson has a special place in my heart as one of those pioneering but eccentric firms that flipped the establishment a bird and did something awesome. That something was to develop an AWD system that found its way into F1 cars and road cars, notably the Jensen FF based on the amazing Jensen Interceptor. But…
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Dichotomous Awesome of No Equal
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Esteemed Hoonigans, it is my great pleasure to present to you self-propelled Yin and Yang, Genius and Insanity, Design Intent and Functional Afterthought.; also known as what may arguably be one of the most hooneriffic vehicles to ever see mass-production: the 1956-1965 Willys-Jeep FC-150. A rare breed even its day, our specimen comes to us…
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Ode to the Imp: Never Was So Much Done by So Little a Car with So Few CCs.
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Ah, the Hillman Imp – tiny, awesome, woefully underdeveloped, and with the awesome-est dorky greenhouse to grace a vehicle (including the BMW 2002). It looked like a demented fever-dream of Alec Issigonis, and it was powered by a fire pump engine. It should appeal to every hoon worth his or her salt.
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Top of the World, Ma! Keating TKR Stakes Claim to World's Fastest Title
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Eighteen hundred horsepower. Two hundred and sixty point one miles per hour. These are the numbers that are rocketing the Keating TKR supercar, potentially into the Guinness Book of World Records. That 260.1-mph top speed is based on a two-way run at El Mirage Dry Lake, and unofficially knocked the crown from the head of…
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Mystery Car Revealed- Veloce e Bello
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And there it is. As you can see, had this entire shot been used, there would have been little mystery to today’s mystery car.
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Mystery Car- Get the Scoop Edition
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Alright learned hoons, it’s that time again. get ready to break out and dust off those big brains of yours. Here’s a crop of a car, and while there’s not much to see here, you don’t have to move along. Instead, set your brow to “knitted,” and ruminate on a couple of particular features in…
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Popping the Hood on Today's Mystery Car
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Well, that was pretty tough, and this picture didn’t give you much to go on, but that didn’t stop Engineerd, with a little help from franchitti to guess it is . . .
