Classic

Volkswagen is gearing up to launch a new generation of its Transporter series of vans, the modern successor to the Type 2 van that most readers will recognize as the iconic Microbus.

With all the attention Ford is getting with its new Bronco, the Video of the Day explores the marketing roots of the massively popular SUV. 

A 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB Long Nose has set an online-only auction record for highest-priced collector car, reaching $3.08 million during Gooding & Company’s inaugural Geared Online sale on August 7. 

Since August 2012, Terry Karges has been the executive director of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. He has overseen a great deal of progress at the world famous museum. This week on the Journal Podcast, Karges tells us about his journey and talks Petersen Car Week – a […]

“If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beasts… His number is 666.” — Book of Revelation, Chapter 13, Verse 18

The post-war boom was defined in most respects by the roaring success of the auto industry, when chrome was king and an automobile was presented as an artistic showpiece.

After the Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear weapon, President Harry Truman created the Federal Civil Defense Administration in 1951 to work with various states and neighboring nations on plans and procedures “to meet emergencies or disasters from enemy attacks.”

Lotus Cars has launched a Certificate of Provenance program for owners of its cars and has launched the program by acquiring for its own car collection the last “company car” owned by company founder Colin Chapman.

I was perplexed when the email arrived offering me a week in a 2020 Toyota Avalon TRD. 

Being billed in an advertisement on ClassicCars.com as an “unprecedented opportunity to acquire the rarest of the all Duesenbergs!” is the Pick of the Day, a 1927 Duesenberg X Dual Cowl Phaeton.