It was 25 years ago this year that Honda went out on a limb and introduced their upmarket Acura brand, with its Integra hatch and Legend sedan available at launch. While Acura would become most famous for its Formula 1-derived, world-beating NSX sports car in the 1990s, the brand continues to sell well today with […]
The 1986 Chrysler LeBaron Town and Country convertible comes from a time when the combination of a few bowling lanes’ worth of genuine simulated wood and computerized turbocharging made perfect sense. This luxurious machine with Mark Cross interior leather appointments started life on a mundane K-Car platform, but was transformed to post-assembly line perfection by […]
The theoretical advantage to gas turbines, besides their ability to swallow up a wide range of fuels, is their relative lightness and compactness compared to other internal combustion engines (gasoline, diesel) of the same output. Boeing decided to illustrate that advantage with this press photo we recently scrounged up, dated April 10, 1950, showing one […]