FERRARI 156 F1—SNARLING BEAUTY
TODAY’S FORMULA ONE cars are technically fascinating, but not especially esthetic. No. Make that downright ungainly. By contrast, the first Ferrari mid-engine GP cars of the early 1960s were things … Continue reading
HONDA S-600: TIDY, LIVELY, ENDEARING
IT WAS 1965 and an American serviceman returned from two years in Japan with Honda’s latest sports car, the S-600. What’s more, he offered his car to R&T for a … Continue reading
AUTO UNION TYPE C
THERE WAS A TIME when Grand Prix cars had front engines. Ah, but the exception was exceptional indeed: the Auto Union. What’s more, these cars were documented by two giants … Continue reading
MOMA’S FIRST CELEBRATION OF THE AUTOMOBILE PART 2
IN 1951, NEW YORK CITY’s Museum of Modern Art celebrated automotive esthetics with its 8 Automobiles exhibit. Yesterday in Part 1, we shared MOMA views on its first four examples. … Continue reading
MOMA’S FIRST CELEBRATION OF THE AUTOMOBILE PART 1
“I GO SOMEWHERE… I take a cab.” This apocryphal New Yorker’s view of travel was countered by that city’s Museum of Modern Art and its first exhibit on automotive design. … Continue reading
AN ALL-WHEEL-DRIVE BUGATTI!
A BUGATTI WITH all-wheel drive? Am I talking about the latter-day Veyron? No. Do I mean the EB110 that I drove back in 1994? No. I mean a real Bugatti … Continue reading
WOMEN AT THE WHEEL
I RECENTLY READ a debunking of the “just a woman driver” myth. It was in “What a Woman Can Do With an Auto” by Robert Sloss who made “the surprising … Continue reading
RAIL, ROAD, AND AIR—THE ART OF TERENCE CUNEO
ENGLISH PAINTER Terence Cuneo had a way with locomotives, cars, and even aircraft. Quite apart from this, he was also the official artist for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II … Continue reading
2020 (MID-ENGINE!) CORVETTE PART 1
IF I HAD a nickel for each time R&T predicted a mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette…. gee, I could retire. Come to think of it, I got retired in 2012. And here … Continue reading
STILL LUSCIOUS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
“ONLY SIX years old,” R&T said in June 1969, “but indisputably a classic.” And for the Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso, all the more indisputable 50 years later. “The prototype … Continue reading
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