Ford's Tiny Fiesta Vs. Pike's Peak's Grueling Rally Hillclimb
The old adage "race on Sunday, sell on Monday" apparently still holds water among US automakers. Ford announced this week the company's Fiesta subcompact will make its US…
View ArticleIndia's $2,500 Tata Nano Minicar Coming to US?
Will US car buyers adopt a car the size of a laundromat dryer, that costs as much as a sofa? Ratan Tata, chairman of India's Tata Motors, hopes they will. Automotive News…
View ArticleEx-Formula One Designer Creating New Fuel-Efficient City Car
Auto racing wonks know Gordon Murray as a designer of winning Formula One cars, who also happened to devise one of the fastest sports cars of the past 20 years -- the McLaren…
View ArticleSeven Decades Later, Cars Still Need To Get Lighter
Popular ScienceMay 1951Yes, in the 1950s, Popular Science actually used the Indianapolis 500 racetrack for testing consumer cars.In May 1951, racecar driver Wilbur Shaw tested a batch of cars that—in...
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