In 1968, Ford launched a car that became a sales sensation. For 42 years, the Escort was truly part of the furniture, transporting families, business people, the emergency services and pretty much ...

Sixty-two years ago, nobody could have predicted that the Porsche 911 – a quirky, rear-engined sports car that resembled an elongated VW Beetle – would still be going strong into 2025. If certain ...

The Golf GTI story reads like the biography of a rock legend. It starts with enthusiasm and experimentation, then explodes into unimagined success. Before long, our hero is a household name. After ...

Peugeot celebrates its 210-year anniversary in 2020, making it the world’s oldest car company. Admittedly, it started as a family-run coffee mill in 1810, then began manufacturing bicycles, then salt ...

Ever been following a car and thought it looked familiar, but you couldn’t pinpoint why? Many cars – especially low-volume sports cars – use the rear lights from more mainstream models to save on ...

When BMW sold venerable British car company Rover in 2000, after six years of ownership, the new management decided to party like it was 1999. This would be a different kind of car company, they said, ...

One of the world’s best-selling pet toys has its origins in a Volkswagen repair garage. Although it sounds like a shaggy dog story, the popular Kong rubber chew was invented by a mechanic from ...

Tiny kei cars have conquered Japan and spread around the world. They originated in 1949, as a way to get war-ravaged Japan back onto four wheels. Yet they have become more than mere transport – as ...