One hundred and sixteen years ago this week, William Crapo (yes, really) Durant founded General Motors in the hopes of creating a large conglomerate that could scoop up all the smaller automotive companies blooming in turn of the last century Detroit. While GM would eventually become a huge success, indeed one of the largest companies … Read more
Screenshot: StanceWorks on YouTube How much car can you buy for $80,000? In the new market that would get you a decent Porsche Boxster or C8 Corvette. Those are pretty impressive cars, to be sure, but neither have the presence or rip-your-face-off-ness of this StanceWorks-built Ford Model A hot rod. That’s right, you can buy … Read more
Photo: TFLclassics / YouTube It has been nearly 100 years since the last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line. While no one would bat an eye if Ford refused to service the once-ubiquitous vehicle, TFLclassics found a dealer willing to perform an oil change on its 1915 Model T. However, the most difficult … Read more
Photo: Maja Hitij (Getty Images) A mass-market, low-cost electric family car has long been touted as the holy grail of EVs with the potential to be as transformative to society as the Ford Model T was in the early 20th century. Elon Musk promised to deliver this dream, but those plans have seemingly been put … Read more
“Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built” is a sentence that most racing fans have heard at least once during their lives. It is usually evoked to illustrate humanity’s innate competitiveness and how racing was a natural use for automobiles. The quote is widely attributed to Henry Ford, except there is … Read more
