The Renault VBG Prototype was a concept design meant to lead to a production vehicle to replace the Renault 4 and 6 models as an entry-level option below the Renault 5. Designer Robert Opron had been recruited away from his head-of-design role at Citroën and Renault soon put him to …
One of the most beautiful cars ever made, the one-of-a-kind Talbot-Lago T150 C Lago Spéciale teardrop coupé by Figoni et Falaschi, will go to auction this weekend. The no-reserve auction is being held at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este on Sunday, May 25. Read more at CarNewsCafe.com.
In the 1970s, Volkswagen was considering a successor or complementary vehicle for the extremely popular Beetle. This new vehicle would fit between the Polo and Golf models where the Beetle was at the time. That search for a new model included commissioning famed industrial designer Luigi Colani. To understand this …
The average weight of a vehicle today is about 4,400 pounds. If you’re old enough to remember cars in 1980, that’s over 1,000 pounds heavier than the average then. And those cars were 20 percent heavier than their counterparts just five years earlier. What’s up with all this vehicular weight …
Back in the day, a guy named Paul had a dream. He pursued that dream, designing several automobiles. The first of which was the Airomobile, which rethought a lot of things about automotive in the 1930s. Read about it at CarNewsCafe.com: https://www.carnewscafe.com/2025/05/coffee-and-an-odd-car-1937-airomobile-experimental-aka-airmobile/
Paul Lewis of Denver, Colorado had a dream. He wanted to build an affordable, safe, and reliable car for the American people. It was the early 1930s and automobiles were all the rage. Read it at CarNewsCafe.com.
Race driver John Fitch had a very successful racing career through the 1950s and 60s after an equally successful airplane piloting career in World War II. While driving high-end sports cars like the Cunningham-Chrysler C4-R (in which he won the 12 Hours of Sebring) and the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (in …
