We learned something interesting about Chevrolet’s 2010 Camaro ZL1 recently that might surprise you. Each of the LSA engine blocks used in these cars will be deck-plate honed before final assembly — a relatively meticulous process that you might not expect from the company that once sold less-than-meticulously built cars like the Chevrolet Celebrity. Deck […]

You’ll hear about fires damaging old, abandoned auto factories from time to time, ravaging a piece of our heritage, usually in deeply troubled parts of Midwest cities that have been forgotten by the rest of America. It’s not exclusively a heartland heartache. The photo you see above was snapped last week in Philadelphia. This gutted […]

Can you name the three all-time best-sellers in automotive history? (And by that, we mean single generations of a model, not like the Corolla badge that’s been attached to so many different cars.) Did you say “Volkswagen Beetle?” That’s right—first place on the list. What’s that? Ford Model T? Right again—second place. And third? Hmmm. […]