The Thinking Behind Cars
The Austin-Healey Sprite was proof that you don’t have to have the most powerful sports car to enjoy open-top driving. It was an embodiment of a classic British motoring idea: to offer the joy of driving without too much expense. Introduced to the public during …
The BMC Mini: What could be more British? Strewn with Union Jacks, built in Birmingham, the icon of the Sixties…except that the Mini’s designer was a Greek immigrant from Smyrna named Alec Issigonis. He had also designed that most British of cars, the 1948 Morris …
The 1964 Abarth Simca 2 Mila Corsa is a legendary Italian sports coupe. It was produced by Abarth, the racing division of Fiat, in cooperation with Simca, the French automaker. How Many Were Made? The Abarth Simca Coupe was produced in limited numbers, with only …
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 Maserati Birdcage, also known as the Maserati Tipo 60/61, was a series of sports racing cars that were produced between 1959 and 1961. Sir Stirling Moss said the Birdcage was “…the finest front-engined sports-racing car ever built” Bonhams and the lightweight Maserati Birdcage – …
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 …