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Editor’s note: When this was published in last month’s issue of Hagerty Drivers Club magazine, we received quite a few letters from people who felt that we were pushing a particular agenda. As the ...
We may have been doing this wrong all along. With cylinder heads, that is. Back when it all began, steam was the start—how we first captured heat energy from fuel and put it to work. More than a ...
The original idea was to prove that cheap and chic weren’t mutually exclusive concepts. In the 1960s, Renault was building the 4L, its riposte to Citroën’s 2CV. The 4L was very simple and very ...
About halfway down the long hill leading to the General Motors Proving Ground test tracks in Milford, Michigan, it hit me that the electric concept car I was driving rolled on a cobbled-up show-car ...
Fifty years after it first came on the scene, the Mk8 Volkswagen Golf of today finds itself larger, heavier, and more reliant on touchscreens and digital technology than ever. (Who among us isn’t?) To ...
In the early 1980s, Mazda was flush with capital from record sales and already deep in the design process for the next generation of the RX-7. Having proven to the world that it could solve ...
As the summer driving season approaches, Hagerty’s new Road of the Year award is meant to encourage Hagerty Drivers Club members and all automotive enthusiasts to get off the freeways and explore a ...
“Versatile! Drag it! Race it! Swing with it!” read a print advertisement for the 1964 Sunbeam Tiger. That single ad laid out everything attractive about the Tiger, showcasing Stan Peterson’s ...
The Hemi is dead. The Challenger and the Camaro as we know them are gone for good. Only the seemingly eternal Mustang remains. I think we can call the second golden age of American performance as ...
As the first three months of the year drew to a close, we witnessed what could be best described as a roller coaster. We observed some enthusiasm returning to the market in January, but by the end of ...
We rely heavily on data and logic at Hagerty Insider, but if there’s ever a situation where logic goes out the window, it’s when we see a never-driven, delivery-mile example of a 30- or 40-year-old ...
Casino magnate William Harrah with just a few of his cars. He died with no provisions in his will for the future of the collection. Courtesy National Automobile Museum For serious collectors of ...