As we mentioned last week, gasoline-electric hybrid cars are not a new invention, nor were they something that was only tried once at the outset of the automotive age before being revived again a century later. GM had its own hybrids in the 1960s, the XP512H and the XP833, and as Tim Martin from The […]

Enduring Automotive History Myths, No. 467 and 467a: Electric cars, while popular around the dawn of the automotive age, were quickly abandoned when the invention of the electric self-starter prompted the widespread adoption of internal combustion. They have only been recently reconsidered as a viable means of transportation. Gasoline-electric hybrids were similarly abandoned after Dr. […]

Since the demise of the Carrera GT, Porsche’s top performing models have been the racing-derived 911 variants like the 205 MPH GT2 RS. While the 911 is better than most dedicated sports cars at walking the tightrope between ultra high performance and everyday livability, its appearance and familiarity strike some as too pedestrian. That will […]