Did you watch ever Mad Max: Fury Road and feel like you wanted to drive one of their hand-made, post-apocalyptic death-traps on public roads? Well that seems to be what obscure car builder Devon West ...

This week marked the 40th anniversary of the Skoda Type 762 series of cars: The Skoda 105, 120, 130, 135, Rapid and so on. Though pretty much unknown in America, these were very popular in Eastern ...

Mid-engine cars have had their periods of popularity through the years, each followed by a valley of decline. Most recently the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette sports car sparked a renewed interest in these ...

One of the very first elements any automotive designer must consider is where to locate the engine. Whether it's a typical ...

If I had to pick one time in history to be an automotive engineer, I'd have to pick the mid-to-late 1930s. Well, as a Jew, there'd be some pretty serious trade-offs about that era, of course, but as ...

The rear-engine Volkswagen is coming back. Sources deep inside VW's headquarters have indicated that the company currently is working on a rump-motored, water-cooled small car, one that mimics the ...

The 8x10 black-and-white glossy was stuck in a folder in the Petersen Photo Archive marked "1959 Corvette." But from its rear-three-quarter view the car looked like no other '59 Corvette we'd seen, ...

Tim Gippert, a native of Cartersville, Georgia, got interested in the rear-engine Chevrolet Corvair when he served as a judge at a show for Corvairs only in Helen, Georgia, in 1997. "A friend asked ...

Rear-engine jets, once a common sight in commercial aviation, have largely disappeared from the fleets of major airlines. Despite their decline in commercial use, these aircraft remain a staple in the ...

John CooperÕs 1961 Grand Prix racer, above, provided the template for his attempt at the Indy 500. The Indianapolis 500, called by many “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” started in 1911. For the ...