Colin Chapman has been gone for nearly 30 years, and the business is now under Malaysian ownership (Proton). But the Lotus Cars of today produces some fascinating stuff, led by the Evora and the 2-Eleven. Lotus is making moves to recoup its racing history, too. A reconstituted Team Lotus has joined Formula 1. Lotus and […]

We’ve taken a look at tether cars (“tethered cars,” spindizzies, whatever you’d like to call them) before, and as it turns out, so did Special Interest Autos, nearly 30 years ago, when Stan Grayson chronicled the renewed interest in such cars for SIA #65, October 1981. I wonder how many of those collectors mentioned in […]

* While you may have heard of the six-wheeled Gama Goat by now, you likely haven’t heard much of its four-wheeled predecessor, the AGL-4. Like the very first Gama Goat prototype, the AGL-4 is powered by an air-cooled Corvair six-cylinder and features an articulating joint between cab and bed. GM apparently developed it for military […]