The Thinking Behind Cars
The Porsche 917 Endurance Racing Car of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s The Porsche 917 is one of the most famous sports racing cars ever made. With its distinctive wedge-shaped body and powerful flat-12 engine, the 917 dominated endurance racing in the late 1960s …
The first mass-produced car was built in the USA, and it was the nation’s best-selling car from 1902 to 1905. But it wasn’t the Ford Model T! The Oldsmobile Model R, or “Curved Dash” was probably the world’s first mass-produced car, that is to say …
The long-gone Spanish car maker Hispano Suiza is worth remembering today as the quality of their aircraft-inspired H6 car of 1919 was quite outstanding, and its design was so advanced it remained at the pinnacle of car manufacturers for a decade. The Hispano Suiza is …
Émile Claveau was one of those innovative car designers we love most here at CarScrapbook.com. His company began making cars in Paris in 1923 and ceased production after World War Two. Claveau cars are among the world’s rarest cars because hardly any were made. But …
The Chrysler Airflow of 1934 was an honourable attempt to design an American aerodynamic car. The designer, Carl Breer observed the smooth shapes of birds and aircraft and wondered why cars could not have the same. So Chrysler built a wind tunnel with the help …
The Czechoslovakian Tatras were the world’s first truly aerodynamically designed cars, but this fact was forgotten after the Cold War divided Europe’s motor industry. We’ll be looking at the T97 that was copied by Dr. Porsche when he designed the Volkswagen Beetle. The Tatra T97 …
Winner of the 1967 Car of the Year was the NSU Ro 80 and for good reasons. It had an innovative new form of engine, and its body design paved the way for generations of Audis. But the NSU Ro 80 is also one of …
Ettore Bugatti was born into an artistic family of painters and sculptors and his cars are surely the most beautifully built motorcars in history. His exquisite 1924 Bugatti Type 35 racer won over 1,000 races and the Grand Prix of 1926. Today we showcase this …
The Cisitalia 202 was one of those cars which were so influential that they now look commonplace. But during the 1947 Paris Motor Show the Cisitalia 202 was hailed as an achievement that had completely changed the direction of postwar car body design. Before the …
The Citroën SM was the most intelligent car made by Citroën, that most intellectual maker of cars. Not only did it look like nothing else, the SM incorporated design innovations which are still filtering through to the mass manufacturers over fifty years later. The Citroën …