Did you watch ever Mad Max: Fury Road and feel like you wanted to drive one of their hand-made, post-apocalyptic death-traps on public roads? Well that seems to be what obscure car builder Devon West ...

Mid-engine cars have had their periods of popularity through the years, each followed by a valley of decline. Most recently the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette sports car sparked a renewed interest in these ...

This week marked the 40th anniversary of the Skoda Type 762 series of cars: The Skoda 105, 120, 130, 135, Rapid and so on. Though pretty much unknown in America, these were very popular in Eastern ...

If I had to pick one time in history to be an automotive engineer, I'd have to pick the mid-to-late 1930s. Well, as a Jew, there'd be some pretty serious trade-offs about that era, of course, but as ...

One of the very first elements any automotive designer must consider is where to locate the engine. Whether it's a typical ...

Tim Gippert, a native of Cartersville, Georgia, got interested in the rear-engine Chevrolet Corvair when he served as a judge at a show for Corvairs only in Helen, Georgia, in 1997. "A friend asked ...

The 8x10 black-and-white glossy was stuck in a folder in the Petersen Photo Archive marked "1959 Corvette." But from its rear-three-quarter view the car looked like no other '59 Corvette we'd seen, ...

The rear-engine Volkswagen is coming back. Sources deep inside VW's headquarters have indicated that the company currently is working on a rump-motored, water-cooled small car, one that mimics the ...

In moving the engine to the rear, Garlits learned three lessons: slow the steering down, use an open rearend, and put an airfoil on the front! The following story originally appeared with the title of ...