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For almost all of its seven-plus decades on this earth, the Corvette has been good value for money. And with seven-plus decades of America’s sports car to choose from, there is a Corvette for ...
Anyone who’s been living in the same house for 33 years—as my wife and I have—knows all about being overwhelmed by stuff. It’s everywhere. The place is packed to the gills with it. And it just keeps ...
The Great Lakes, offering both scenery and history, make the perfect backdrop for our ’55 Chevy tour. When the car was new, the region was known for its shipping, mining, and forestry. Today, it’s ...
After carving 43 miles of smooth asphalt that rises through meadows and dense forest on its way to a mile-high peak, a driver might conclude that the Cherohala Skyway was made purely for the fun of it ...
“It has long been the desire of Cadillac to build each year a few highly individualized cars which would possess supreme possibilities.” Now that customers will soon receive their cars, we decided to ...
People often complain that those gorgeous and slippery concept cars that automakers create to tout their brand vision and design prowess get watered down to weak sauce by the time they reach ...
Automotive journalists are a curious bunch, to put it mildly. Many drive new vehicles on a weekly basis, getting insider access to manufacturers for better, or occasionally worse, ends. I lost access ...
If you visited the Slate.auto website prior to 7:20 p.m. PT on Thursday, which was the embargo for many of the details below, this is what it said: “We’re hammering away at something cool. No time to ...
“Special then, special now.” That mantra goes a long way in explaining today’s collector car market. The idea is this: If a car was unique and desirable when it was new due to style, performance, or ...
The internet’s adoring chorus for all things Miata suggests that Miata has always been the answer. But when Mazda introduced the third-generation (NC) MX-5 in 2006, many among the Miata faithful ...
The Corvette team wanted to take the car from front- to mid-engine for decades before they got the budget to develop the 2020 Stingray. Those decades of delay must have been frustrating at times, even ...
MG billed itself as “the sports car that America loved first.” Back in the Mad Men era, it was one of the few taglines that wasn’t complete BS. That’s because back in the ’40s, American servicemen ...