Patrick, until Donckerwolke pointed out the supposed similarities, when you saw the Continental did you really think “that’s a ripoff of the Bentleys”? I doubt it. Also, I’m pretty sure that any flagship sedan is going to be about the size of the four door Bentleys. A long wheelbase S Class Mercedes-Benz is within a…

I wonder if Bentley will ever give Chrysler designer Virgil Exner Sr. credit for the design of the Continental GT.

Does it have to be factory made? Model T speedster conversions were popular.

The 1919 Jordan Playboy was built “for the girl who loves to swim, paddle and shoot and for the boy who loves the roar of a cut out.”

Only German manufacturers seem to be clever enough to realize that recreating old parts to keep those classics on the road is a very good business that’s also beneficial for their brand image.

It’s possible some stunt driving was involved. If you can drive a bus on two wheels, a Nano should be easy.

One of the rear passengers appears to be stabilizing himself with a hand on the roof even before the turn, they knew this was going to happen.

The original Nano wasn’t a hatch and was available only with a manual transmission. The newly announced GenX Nano has been substantially redesigned and now has a hatch and will be available with a “automated manual transmission”, using a Magnetti Marelli control system.

Carburetors were in use in cars for over 100 years and are still used in most small engines. The fact that a successful technology was replaced by newer technology doesn’t make what had originally been used a “dead end”.

Jim Glickenhaus said that it would take a $600 million investment to be able to sell 10,000 cars over 10 years at Ferrari prices. To put a $20K sports car into production would take a substantially larger investment, greater risk and much smaller margins. There are reasons why BMW is working with Mazda on a sports car…

If you’re looking to take a drive today, a visit to a military cemetery would be appropriate for Memorial Day.

Ain’t no free:

Race Car Replica’s Superlite SLC. They also make some great, dimensionally accurate replicas of cars like the Ford GT40, Lola T70 and Porsche 917, with modern tubs and suspensions.

Nah, it’s not half as ugly was what Studebaker itself did to the Starliner coupe. First they tacked on fins and an upright grille to make the Hawk. Then they gave it a fish face for the last gasp Packards, post merger. Brooks Stevens did a great job updating the then 10 year old shell into the Gran Turismo Hawk, a…

Loewy took credit because it was his studio, but the ‘53 coupe was mostly designed by Bob Bourke, who worked for Loewy on the Studebaker account.

Is that the car in Lathrup Village that I wrote about at TTAC?

Coda. Boring car. Boring company. Boring photo.

L.P. Hartley — ‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.’

Frederic Lanchester patented a disc brake system over a century ago. The Tucker’s safety innovations have been exaggerated. They didn’t have safety glass, they had a windshield that popped out. The Tucker’s “Safety Chamber”, was the space under the dashboard where the driver and front passenger would jump into if they…

You think FDR would have had such a law to sign in 1938 if Ford hadn’t started moving industry in that direction 12 years earlier?