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In February 1948, the Cadillac Series 62 Coupe became the first American car with tailfins, inspired by the Lockheed P38 Lightning aircraft. A decade later, they reached such baroque heights on US car

Many cars are pretty, elegant and balanced. Perhaps therein, given the slight feeling of disquiet it instils in the observer, lies the curious appeal of the Studebaker Avanti. Its design is well over

The 1920s were not easy years in Germany. World War One had left the country impoverished and economic inflation was rife. It was a time of consolidation, as the nation’s industrialists analysed the s

THE WORLD WAS a very different place when the Veyron was launched back in 2005, and I’m not just referring to the fact that it was delivered with an accompanying HP Palm Pilot to access its digital fe

I remember an early 1978 argument over the chassis of the RS10 and the use of the engine,” said Renault Formula 1 team driver Jean-Pierre Jabouille. “Whether to put a twin turbo in it and modify the c

I took an interest in the Wolseley Hornet Special when I learnt that my father had acquired one as his first car, just after the Second World War. His Eustace Watkins-bodied two-seater was long gone b