A flower vase seems like an unlikely thing to find beside a car’s speedometer. It cannot tell you whether the engine is overheating, help you find your way home or hold a takeaway coffee. Yet a
The BMW M2 has a funny problem: it’s one of those cars you really want to drive, but maybe not one you’d want to stare at in your driveway. Riverti Automobili seems to have noticed the sam
The Dodge Nitro was already a pretty boxy SUV, but someone looked at one and apparently thought, “You know what this needs? A pickup bed.” That idea eventually became this bright-red 2009
The old Renault 8 Gordini had four doors, a rear-mounted engine, and a reputation for making winding roads interesting. Renault’s latest interpretation keeps almost none of that formula. The new
Mitsuoka has a habit of making perfectly normal cars look like they arrived from another decade, and the LA1 might be one of its most interesting transformations yet. The Japanese coachbuilder take
Look down beside the pedals of an older car and you may find a small metal button poking through the carpet. It is easy to mistake for an abandoned starter or some ingenious accessory installed by a p
What do you get when two Italian car designers start with one of the smallest cars on the road and decide to have some fun? In this case, you get two very different Fiat Topolinos. Fabrizio Giugiar
The woodgrain paneling on an old station wagon rarely fools anyone. Even when new, the printed vinyl was not likely to be mistaken for hand-finished mahogany. It was wood in the same way a kitchen
Look at an American car from 1971, then find the same model from 1974. The earlier car may have a slim chrome blade tucked neatly against its body. Three years later, the bumper appears to have lef
Few automotive features can make a parked car look as alive as pop-up headlights. Turn the switch and two neat sections of bodywork rise from the hood, pause with theatrical precision and reveal the l